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of the Indians whom Franklin had found in the steppes watered by
Hearne’s Coppermine River. The Yellow-Knives, who, according to
Petitot, are related to the Cariboo-Eaters, live to the northeast of Great

Slave Lake. They are the Copper Indians of Franklin.

“But who are the Cariboo-Eaters ?” asks Prof. Campbell. They are,
according to Petitot, an important tribe which “hunts on the steppes
lying to the east of lakes Cariboo, Wollaston and Athabaska. Fort
Fond du Lac is their rendezvous on the latter lake.”* The same

information is to be found in the essay prefixed to his polyglot

dictionary which Prof. Campbell has seen.

As an instance of hasty writing, I must quote another of the latter's
statements. “The Loucheux,’ he says, “are the Kutchins, Father
Morice’s Tudukh,’—he means Tukudh, but the printer is probably
responsible for the deformation of the name. Now I invariably called
that tribe Loucheux, and the only time I mentioned at all the word
Tukudh I did so by way of indirectly protesting against it. I said:

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the southern frontiers of the Loucheux ;” and in a foot-note I explained
under the word Loucheux, “the so-called ‘Tukudh’ or ‘ Kut-chin.’” +
Small matter to be sure, but important enough in that it shows the
degree of carefulness observed -by a writer. The Anglican Bishop
Bompas and the Rev. R. McDonald are the parties responsible for that
nickname, and, after them, Pilling who wrongly thought it represented
a tribe different from the Loucheux. }

Another proofof the Rev. Mr. Campbell’s hasty writing I find in his
reproduction of my list of the septs of three Western Déné tribes.
Not only does he mix up the extraneous names of those tribes with
those of their subdivisions, but he omits one of the latter which is to be
found in the addenda to the paper from which he derives the whole list.
I must further add that the omission of the apostrophe denoting the all
important exploding or clicking sound renders all these words meaning-
less in Indian.

“ Father Morice has questioned the native origin of Déné government
by toenaz-as (lege teenezas), notables or chiefs.” Loose writing again.
I never questioned the native origin of any such government since I
asserted that the Dénés had no form of government whatever. Ina
paper published by the Royal Society of Canada, I did state that the

* Meémotre abrégé sur la Géographie de LP Athabaskaw— MacKenzie, p. 224.
-+ The Western Dénés, Proc. Can. Inst., Vol. vii., p. 112.
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