ement of too uncertain character to be depended upon; the
Athapascan tribes now on the Grande Ronde and Siletz Reservations,
Oregon,[12] whose villages on and near the coast extended from Coquille
River southward to the California line, including, among others, the
Upper Coquille, Sixes, Euchre, Creek, Joshua, Tutu t[^u]nn[ve], and other
"Rogue River" or "Tou-touten bands," Chasta Costa, Galice Creek,
Naltunne t[^u]nn[ve] and Chetco villages;[13] the Athapascan villages
formerly on Smith River and tributaries, California;[14] those villages
extending southward from Smith River along the California coast to the
mouth of Klamath River;[15] the Hup[^a] villages or "clans" formerly on
Lower Trinity River, California;[16] the Kenesti or Wailakki (2),
located as follows: "They live along the western slope of the Shasta
Mountains, from North Eel River, above Round Valley, to Hay Fork; along
Eel and Mad Rivers, extending down the latter about to Low Gap; also on
Dobbins and Larrabie Creeks;"[17] and Saiaz, who "formerly occupied the
tongue of land jutting down between Eel River and Van Dusen's Fork."[18]
[Footnote 10: Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep. I, 1855, p. 428.]
[Footnote 11: Lewis and Clarke, Exp., 1814, vol. 2, p. 382.]
[Footnote 12: Gatschet and Dorsey, MS., 1883-'84.]
[Footnote 13: Dorsey, MS., map, 1884, B.E.]
[Footnote 14: Hamilton, MS., Haynarger Vocab., B.E.; Powers,
Contr. N.A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 3, p. 65.]
[Footnote 15: Dorsey, MS., map, 1884, B.E.]
[Footnote 16: Powers, Contr. N.A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 3, pp. 72, 73.]
[Footnote 17: Powers, Contr. N.A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 3, p. 114.]
[Footnote 18: Powers, Contr. N.A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 3, p. 122.]
_Southern group_.--Includes the Navajo, Apache, and Lipan. Engineer Jose
Cortez, one of the earliest authorities on these tribes, writing in
1799, defines the boundaries of the Lipan and Apache as extending north
and south from 29 deg. N. to 36 deg. N., and east and west from 99 deg. W.
to 114 deg. W.; in other words from central Texas nearly to the Colorado
River in Arizona, where they met tribes of the Yuman stock. The Lipan
occupied the eastern part of the above territory, extending in Texas from
the Comanche country (about Red River) south to the Rio Grande.[19] More
recently both Lipan and Apache have gradually moved southward into
Mexico where they extend as far as Durango.[20]
[Footnote 19: Cortez in Pac. R. R.
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