Handbook of American Indian languages. (Athapascan [Hupa])
E51 .U6 no.40, pt.1-2 v.2 75 Series: Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 40, p. 91-158.; Includes text in English and Hupa language material. "The Athapascan stock is one of the largest and most widely distributed families of speech in North America. Geographically...
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United States. Government Printing Office
1911
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| Online Access: | http://cdm16085.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16085coll13,15629 |
| Summary: | E51 .U6 no.40, pt.1-2 v.2 75 Series: Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 40, p. 91-158.; Includes text in English and Hupa language material. "The Athapascan stock is one of the largest and most widely distributed families of speech in North America. Geographically it consists of three divisions, the northern, the Pacific coast, and the southern. The northern division occupies much of the northwestern portion of the continent. East of the Rocky mountains the southern boundary is the Churchill river at the southeast, and the watershed between Athabasca and Peace rivers at the southwest. South of them are peoples of the Algonquian stock. The Eskimo hold a narrow strip of continuous coast-line along the Arctic ocean and Hudson bay to the north and east. West of the Rocky mountains the Athapascan territory begins at the fifty-first parallel of north latitude, and includes all of the country except the coast and islands. Only near the boundary of Alaska and British Columbia did they reach the coast. In the extreme north the coast is in the possession of the Eskimo. To the south the shore-lands are in the possession of the Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Wakashan. Their southern neighbors are members of the Salishan stock"--P. [8]. |
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