Rep., 1856, vol. 3, pt. 3,
pp. 118, 119.]
[Footnote 20: Bartlett, Pers. Narr., 1854; Orozco y Berra, Geog.,
1864.]
The Navajo, since first known to history, have occupied the country on
and south of the San Juan River in northern New Mexico and Arizona and
extending into Colorado and Utah. They were surrounded on all sides by
the cognate Apache except upon the north, where they meet Shoshonean
tribes.
PRINCIPAL TRIBES.
A. Northern group: B. Pacific group: C. Southern group:
Ah-tena. [vA]ta[va]k[^u]t. [*Ataakut] Arivaipa.
Kaiyuh-khotana. Chasta Costa. Chiricahua.
Kcaltana. Chetco. Coyotero.
K'naia-khotana. Dakube tede Faraone.
Koyukukhotana. (on Applegate Creek). Gileno.
Kutchin. Euchre Creek. Jicarilla.
Montagnais. Hup[^a]. Lipan.
Montagnards. K[va]lts'erea t[^u]nn[ve]. Llanero.
[*Kalts'erea tunne]
Nagailer. Kenesti or Wailakki. Mescalero.
Slave. Kwalhioqua. Mimbreno.
Sluacus-tinneh. Kwa[t]ami. Mogollon.
Taculli. Micikqw[^u]tme t[^u]nn[ve]. Na-isha.
Tahl-tan (1). Mikono t[^u]nn[ve]. Navajo.
Unakhotana. Owilapsh. Pinal Coyotero.
Qwinct[^u]nnet[^u]n. Tch[ve]k[^u]n.
Saiaz. Tchishi.
Talt[^u]ctun t[^u]de.
(on Galice Creek).
Tc[^e]m[^e] (Joshuas).
Tc[ve]tl[ve]stcan t[^u]nn[ve].
[*Tcetlestcan tunne]
Terwar.
Tlatscanai.
Tolowa.
Tutu t[^u]nn[ve].
_Population._--The present number of the Athapascan family is about
32,899, of whom about 8,595, constituting the Northern group, are in
Alaska and British North America, according to Dall, Dawson, and the
Canadian Indian-Report for 1888; about 895, comprising the Pacific
group, are in Washington, Oregon, and California; and about 23,409,
belonging to the Southern group, are in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,
and Indian Territory. Besides these are the Lipan and some refugee
Apache, who are in Mexico. These have not been inclu
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