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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN
[TRIBES
Tribe. | Stock. | Situation, Population, &c. | Degree of Intermixture. |
Condition, Progress, &c. | Authorities. |
Kansa (Kaw). | Siouan. | 207 in Oklahoma. | About half are mixed blood. | American citizens, making fair progress. | Dorsey, 11th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1889–1890, and 15th Rep., 1893–1894; Hay, Trans. Kans. State Hist. Soc., 1906. |
Kickapoo. | Algonkian. | 188 in Kansas; 204 in Oklahoma; about 400 in Mexico. | Considerable. | Progress hampered by liquor, &c. | Mooney, 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1892–1893; Lutz, Trans. Kansas Hist. Soc., 1906. |
Kawia (Cahuilla). | Shoshonian. | About 150 in southern California. | Little. | Progress good. Nominally Catholics, result of Californian missions. | Barrows, Ethnobotany of the Coahuilla Indians (1900}; Kroeber, Ethnography of the Cahuilla (1908). |
Kiowa. | Kiowan. | 1219 in Oklahoma. | Some white blood from captives, &c. | Citizens of the U.S., making fair progress. Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, &c., mission influences. | Mooney, 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1892–1893, and 17th Rep., 1895–1896. |
Kitksan. | Tsimshian. | About 1100 on upper Skeena river in central British Columbia. | Little. | Making good progress. | See Tsimshian. |
Klamath. | Lutuamian. | 761 at Klamath Agency, Oregon. | Little. | Mostly self-supporting. Methodist mission, but poor work done. | Gatschet, The Klamath Indians (Washington, 1890); Dorsey, Amer. Anthrop., 1901. |
Klickatat. | Sahaptian. | About 300 merged with Yakima and other tribes on Yakima Reservation, Washington. | Considerable. | Late reports indicate much bad influence of whites. | Lyman, Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., 1904; Lewis, Mem. Amer. Anthrop. Soc., 1906. |
Konkau (Concow). | Pujunan. | 171 at Round Valley, California. | Little. | Gradually improving. | See Maidu. |
Kootenay. | Kitunahan. | In S.E. British Columbia; 220 at St Mary's; 59 at Tobacco Plains; 82 at Columbia Lakes; 170, lower Kootenay. At Flathead Agency, Montana, 565. Holding their own, or increasing. | A little French and English. | Good, especially upper Kootenay; continued progress. Kootenay in U.S. not so progressive. Catholic missions with good results. | Boas, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1889; Chamberlain, ibid., 1892 (and other writings), Ann. Arch. Rep. Ontario, 1905; Schultz, My Life as an Indian (N.Y., 1907). |
Koyukukho'tenne | Athabaskan. | About 500 on the Koyukuk and Yukon above the 'Kaiyuhkho'tenne in Alaska. | Little, if any. | Little progress noted. | See Babines, Carriers, Chipewyan. |
Kwakiutl. | Wakashan. | About 2000 in Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Decreasing. | Considerable in places. | Improvement recently. Anglican and Methodist missions — former counting 469; latter, 19 members; rest, “pagans.” | Boas, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1889, 1890, 1896, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1895, and other writings; Boas and Hunt, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1902. |
Lillooet (Statliumh). | Salishan. | About 900 in S.W. British Columbia, on Fraser river, Douglas and Lillooet Lakes, &c. | Considerable places. | Getting along well generally. Catholic and Anglican missions. | Boas, Ethnogr. Album (N.Y., 1890); Hill-Tout, Journ. Anthr. Inst., 1905; Teit, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1906. |
Lummi. | Salishan. | 418 at Tulalip Agency, Washington. | Considerable. | Suffering from white contact. | See Chehalis. |
Maidu. | Pujunan. | In N.E. California. About 250 full-bloods. | Not much. | Few and scattered. | Dixon, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1902–1905; Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, 1900–1907. |
Makah. | Wakashan. | 400 on Makah, 25 on Ozette Reservation, Washington. | Considerable. | Progress good. | Swan, The Indians of Cape Flattery (Washington, 1870); Dorsey, Amer. Antiquarian, 1901. |
Mandan. | Siouan. | 264 at Ft. Berthold, N. Dakota. Beginning to increase again. | Considerable. | Making some progress. Catholic and Protestant mission influences. | Will and Spindle, The Mandans (1906); Dorsey in 11th and 15th Reps. Bur. Ethnol. |
Maricopa. | Yuman. | 344 at Pima Agency Arizona. Decreasing slightly. | No data. | Progress in 1906 excellent. Catholic mission school. | See Yuma. |
Maskegon (Swampy Cree). | Algonkian. | About 2500 in Manitoba, Keewatin, Saskatchewan. | Considerable in certain regions. | Generally law-abiding, but improvident; some making good progress. | Simms in Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, 1906; Stewart in Ann. Arch. Rep. Ontario, 1905. |
Masset. | Haidan. | 360 at Masset, Q. Charlotte Is. | See Haida. | See Haida. | See Haida. |
Menohinee. | Algonkian. | About 1600, of which 1364 under superintendency of Green Bay, Wisconsin. | Considerable. | Making gradual progress, with noticeable improvement in many respects. Catholic church has many members. | Hoffman in 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1892–1893. |
Miami. | Algonkian. | 129 in Oklahoma, 240 in Indiana, a few elsewhere; total about 400. | Considerable French blood, about 50%. | American citizens; intelligent, thrifty and progressive. | Pilling, Bibl. of Algon. Lang. (1891). |
Micmac. | Algonkian. | 2114 in Nova Scotia, 288 in Prince Edward Island; 1000 in New Brunswick, 591 in Quebec. | Large element of French; some Scottish and English blood. | Progress good; not degenerating nor decreasing. All Catholics. | Writings of Dr S. T. Rand, especially Micmac Legends (1894); Pacifique and Prince, Congr. intern. des Amér., Quebec, 1906; Leland Algonquin Legends (1885); Leland and Prince, Kuloskap (1902). |
Mission Indians. | Yuman; Shoshonian. | About 3000 in S. California. | Considerable in some sections. | Self-supporting; some individuals remarkably able and industrious. Catholics nominally. | Writings of Miss C. G. du Bois, Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore and Amer. Anthrop., 1900–1908, &c. See Kawia. |
Mississagua. | Algonkian. | At Aluwick, 249; at the river Credit, 267; Rice Lake, 90; Mud Lake, 190; Scugog, 35. Increasing slightly. | Considerable. | Fairly good generally; some at the Credit very successful farmers, competing with whites. Methodists chiefly. | Chamberlain, Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, 1888 and Language of the Mississagas of Skugog (Phila., 1892); Burnham, Ont. Hist. Soc. Pap. and Rec., 1905. |
Modoc. | Lutuamian. | 52 in Oklahoma, 229 on Klamath Reservation. Oregon. Apparently decreasing slowly, or holding their own. | Little. | Generally industrious and moral. Methodist mission. | Miller, My Life Among the Modocs (1873); Gatschet, Amer. Anthrop., 1894. See Klamath. |
Mohave. | Yuman. | About 1600 in Arizona. | Little. | Good: industrious but restless. Presbyterian and Church of the Nazarene missions. | Bourke, Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, 1889; Kroeber, Amer. Anthrop., 1902. See Yuman. |