[19] See Auszug aus dem Tagebuche des Schiffer-gehülfen Andreas
Glasunow. In Wrangell. Ferd. v., Statistische und ethnographische
Nachrichten ü. d. Russichen Besitzungen a. d. Nordwestküste v. Amerika.
Ed. by K. C. v. Baer, St. Petersburg, 1839, 137-160. Zagoskin, A.,
Pes̆echodnaia opis c̆asti russkick vladenii v. Amerikě. 2 parts, St.
Petĕrsburg. 1847-1848, pp. 1-183, 1-120, and 1-43; with a map.
[20] Dall, Contr. N. A. Ethn., vol. 1, p. 17.
[21] Zagoskin: "* * * great family of the Ttynai nation, which occupies
the interior of the mainland of our colonies and known to us under
various names--Yug-elnut, Tutna, Golcanĕ or Kilc̆anĕ [according to the
pronunciation of those giving the information], Kenaici, Inkaliti,
Inkalich-liuatov [distant Inkaliks], and others--names given to them by
the neighboring coastal people."
[22] Petrof, Ivan, p. 161: "This tribe, comprising the Yunakhotana and
the Kutchakutchin of Dall, inhabits the banks of the Yukon River from
Fort Yukon westward to Nulato."
NATIVE VILLAGES ON THE YUKON AND IN THE VICINITY, 1843 (ZAGOSKIN, III,
39-41)[23]
-----------------------------------------+-------+----------+-------
Villages | Total | Adult | Houses
| | males[24]|
-----------------------------------------+-------+----------+-------
INDIANS | | |
Inkalit-Iugelnut: | | |
Inselnostlende | 33 | 8 | 2
Khuingitatekhten | 37 | 11 | 3
Iltenleiden | 100 | 30 | 6
Tlego | 45 | 14 | 3
Khuligichagat | 70 | 25 | 5
Kvygympainag-miut | 71 | 25 | 3
Vazhichagat | 80 | 18 | 5
Anvig | 120 | 37 | 5
Makki | 44 | 9 | 3
Anilukhtakpak | 170 | 48 | 8
+-------+----------+-------
Total | 770 | 225 | 43
+=======+==========+=======
Inkiliks proper: | | |
Kunkhogliuk | 11 | 5 | 2
Ulukak | 35 | 10 | 4
Ttutago | 32 | 8 | 2
Kakoggo-khakat | 9 | 3 | 1
Khutul-khakat | 16 | 4 | 2
Khaltag | 9 | 3 | 1
Khogoltlinde | 60 | 17 | 4
Takaiak | 81 | 27 | 7
Khuli-kakat | 11 | 3 | 1
+-------+----------+-------
Total | 264 | 80 | 24
+=======+==========+=======
Yunnaka-khotana: | | |
Notaglit | 37 | 8 | 3
Tlialil-kakat | 27 | 7 | 3
Toshoshgon | 30 | 5 | 2
Tok-khakat | 6 | 3 | 1
Nok-khakat | 50 | 11 | 3
Kakhliakhlia-kakat | 26 | 7 | 2
Tsonagogliakhten | 11 | 4 | 1
Tsogliachten | 7 | 2 | 1
Khotyl-kakat | 65 | 19 | 4
Unylgakhtkhokh | 17 | 2 | 2
Nulato | 13 | 2 | 1
+-------+----------+-------
Total | 289 | 70 | 23
+=======+==========+=======
Tlegon-khotana: | | |
Innoko natives seen on the Yukon | 44 | 33 | 3
Village totality | 45 | 14 | 3
+-------+----------+-------
Total | 89 | 47 | 6
+=======+==========+=======
All Indians counted on Yukon and Koyukuk | 1,359 |[25]422 | 132
+=======+==========+=======
ESKIMO | | |
Kavliunag-miut | 11 | 3 | 1
Nygyklig-miut | 13 | 4 | 1
Kanyg-miut | 45 | 11 | 4
Ankachag-miut | 122 | 32 | 6
Takchag-miut | 40 | 12 | 3
Ikuag-miut | 130 | 35 | 6
Nukhluiag-miut | 60 | 17 | 4
Ikogmiut | 92 | 22 | 5
Ikaligvig-miut | 45 | 14 | 3
Pai-miut | 123 | 35 | 5
+-------+----------+-------
Total of Kvikhpag-miut | 681 | 185 | 38
-----------------------------------------+-------+----------+-------
Dall, referring to 1866-67 (Contr. Am. Ethn., I, 23, 39), estimated the
number of the Yukon Eskimo at 1,000 and that of the Yukon and Koyukuk
Indians, from the mouth of the Tanana downward, at 2,800. Only a few
sites of villages are incidentally given by Dall.
Ivan Petrof, as a special agent for Alaska of the United States Census
for 1880, reports himself the following Indian settlements and numbers
of inhabitants on the Yukon (Compil. Narrat. Expl. Alaska, 68; gives
also data on Eskimo, but his arrangement and unidentifiable localities
prevent these data from being used here):
Anvik station and village 94
Single house 20
Single house 12
Single house 15
Tanakhothaiak 52
Single house 15
Chageluk settlements 150
Khatnotoutze 115
Kaiakak 124
Kaltag 45
Nulato, station and village 163
Koyukuk settlements 150
Terentiefs station 15
Big Mountain 100
Single house 10
Sakatalan 25
Yukokakat 6
Melozikakat 30
Mentokakat 20
Soonkakat 12
Medvednaia 15
Novo-kakat 106
Kozmas 11
Nuklukaiet 27
Rampart village 110
Fort Yukon 82
Later demographic records on the Yukon and its tributaries and on the
coast comprise additional data by Petrof, published as a part of the
Eleventh (1890) United States Census and arranged by districts and
linguistic groups; and the data of three subsequent United States
Censuses, 1900, 1910, and 1920, which are given in differing ways,
but in the main by major ethnic and territorial or jurisdictional
subdivisions.
Due to incomplete enumerations; to the use of native estimates for
actual count (as seems to have been the case with Dall's figures, as
well as others); the different methods and classifications employed;
and the inclusion of units now into one and now into another group
(as with Petrof, who includes three Indian villages below Anvik among
the Eskimo, etc.), the various counts are not comparable and give but
hazy ideas of the true conditions. Yet they are not without value,
particularly in showing the earlier population of the villages and the
relative proportion of the sexes and ages. The more helpful details are
given in the appendix; for still others see references in bibliography.