Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14742386726)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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Francisco. As will appear upon reference to the printed Instructions in the fifth volume of theNarrative of the Exploring Expedition, and although my instructions, independentof this, gave me enough to do, it was owing mainly to the ague and fever thatattacked nearly every officer and man in the party, and the subsequent hostility ofthe tribes, that I now find myself unable to answer many of the questions embracedin your circular. Such as I can answer, I will now take again in the order propounded, confiningmyself to the following tribes, whose appioximatc numbers and localities are sufficientlydescribed in the Narrative of the Exploring Expedition, Vol. V. These names are variously spelled by different travellers, and the numbers differentlyestimated by those whose opportunities of forming a judgment were less favorablethan those at the command of the different parties composing the ExploringExpedition. Therefore in these two particulars I shall copy verbatim from the abovework: —
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HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT. 201 TRIBEa Chinooks . . . Klatsops . . • Chickeeles . . .Kilamukes. Callapuyas. . .Umpquas . . .Rogues or RascallyKlamets...Shaste. . . . Kinkla SacramentoTula or Tulara NDMBER 209 220 700400 600400500300500 500 =8000 = LOCALmr, ETC. Mouth of the Columbia river, north side, includ-ing some 50 miles interior. Mouth of the Columbia river, south side, and20 or 30 miles of sea-coast. North and east of ditto. South and east of ditto, extending to the coast.Number, I think, overrated. Valley of the Willamette river. do. Umpqua do. going south. do. Rogue do. do do. Klamet do. do. Mountainous country and dividing ridge betweenOregon and California. On Destruction river and head-waters of theSacramento river. Valley of the Sacramento and its lower tributaries. N. B. These numbers, I presume, were intended to embrace the remnant of severalother tribes also occupying this country. 1. — What facts can be stated, from tradition, respecting the origin, early history,and