80 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST [n. s., 30, 1928

Robert, Austin, Stephen, Casimir, Soesradu’as and Felix (Neh-
woniyel), all Carriers as far as I know. At any rate, Carrier was
the language they always spoke. Only the two brothers Stephen
and Casimir had Sékanais blood in their veins, their father being
related to that tribe—perhaps a full Sékanais. But their mother
Zeli was confessedly a pure Carrier, who even left that place for
Fort St. James, on Stuart lake, when her daughter Annie became
the wife of Taya, the head-chief of all the Carriers.

Harmon was certainly misinformed with regard to the Grand-
Rapide village. In fact, the territory of the Carriers extended
much farther north in the same valley.

McLeod says that ‘‘the only actual cremation by Sikanni which ~
Harmon describes was the cremation of the body of a man”’ who
“may have come from this village.’’** Harmon speaks nowhere in
his Journal of cremation as having been practised by Sékanais
Indians. He simply writes in the case mentioned by that gentle-
man:

On the 9th inst., a Sicanny died at this place [Fort St. James, capital of the
Carriers], and the following circumstances attended his incineration.

The chances are that had he really belonged to Keeztce, his
remains would have been sent up thither, or at least to Thatce
(McLeod’s Tachy), for disposal.

People of the two places are so intimately connected from an
ethnographical standpoint that they are uniformly called Ttaz-
tenne, or people of the “Fond du Lac,” a further proof that those
of the Grand-Rapide have always been Carriers and not Sékanais.

My adversary further finds an excuse for some humor at my
expense in the fact that I had written of the two wives of the above
mentioned Sékanais that they were Carrier women. He sees in this
contention nothing but ‘‘a product of my imagination,” and ex-
horts me to continue “‘this interesting, though imaginary, bio-
graphical study.”®® In fact, he seems so elated at his grand find
that he immediately repeats himself in commencing his next
paragraph. “The biography given by Morice,” he adds, “bears
internal evidence of having been imaginary.”

58 AMER. ANTHROPOL., 28: 568.
59 Tbid., 569.