Franz Boas' accounting of the...

Native Peoples of the NW Coast.

I.	Tlingit, Inhabiting southern Alaska

II.	Haida, 
		Inhabiting the Queen Charlotte Islands and part of 
		Prince Wales Archipelago.

III.	Tsimshian, 
		Inhabiting the Nass and Skeena rivers and the adjacent 
		islands.

	1.	Nisqa', on Nass River.
	2.	Gyitkca'n, on upper Skeena River.
	3.	TsE'mician,on lower Skeena River and the adjacent 
		islands.

IV.	Wakashan, 
		Inhabiting the coast from Gardiner Channel to the 
		Cape Mudge, the region around Dean Inlet excepted; 
		Vancouver Island, except its southeastern part, 
		from Comox to Sooke Inlet and Cape Flattery.

	A.	Kwakiutl group.
		1.	Xa-isla, on Gardiner and Douglass channels.
		2.	He'iltsuq, from Gardiner Channel to Rivers 
			Inlet.
		3.	Kwakiutl, from Rivers Inlet to Cape Mudge.

	B.	Nootka group, inhabiting the west coast of 
		Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery.

V.	Salishan, 
		inhabiting the coast of the mainland and the 
		eastern part of  Vancouver Island south of Cape 
		Mudge, the southern part of the interior as far 
		east as the Selkirk Range, and the northern parts 
		of Washington, Idaho and  Montana; also the region 
		of Dean Inlet.

	A.	The Coast Salish.

		1,	Bilxula, on Dean Inlet and Bentinck Arm.
		2.	CaLo'ltx, at Comox and Toba Inlet, formerly 
			north of Cape Mudge.

	B. Salishan languages of the interior.

VI.	Chemakum, south of Cape Flattery and near Port 
	Townsend.

VII.	Chinook, on Colombia River.

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