. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . OTKMS AM) IDOLS AT by A. Slom, from a photograph. ship and sacrifices the evil spirits thatso largely control the destinies of opinions are very hard to and white teachers have,however, penetrated the country
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . OTKMS AM) IDOLS AT by A. Slom, from a photograph. ship and sacrifices the evil spirits thatso largely control the destinies of opinions are very hard to and white teachers have,however, penetrated the country, and 464 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. many of the tribes, such as the Chilkats,have nominally accepted Christianityand instituted schools. The Indian mindis sufficiently receptive to admit the su-periority of the new ideas over the na-tional superstitions. It is not needed that we should dwellat great length upon the subdivisions of ?•. fc^S PINNACLES OF THE MITIR GLACIER (ALASKA).Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph. this widely dispersed Athabascan, orTinneh, family of peoples. Some eth-nographers have subdivided the wholegroup into four subordinate Subdivisions of the Athabascan races. The first of these family. -, -, 1 1 • r ji belongs to the basin of theMackenzie river, the second is calledthe New Caledonian group, and the thirdthe Oregonian. Those who follow this division include as its fourth group cer-tain of our southwestern tribes, such asthe Apaches and the Xavajos. It is only necessary for us to repeatthe geographical distribution of thesepeoples which comprises most of Alaskaand of the Canadian dominion from theEsquimau territories to the river Church-ill on the south, and from the shorelines of mountains, next to the Pa-cific, to the Hudson bay. One ofthe chief subdivisions of the Tinnehfamily is the Thlinkets, a maritimepeople, lying next the Pacific underthe 6oth parallel, and from that linesouthward
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