| | possibly | | | | | | considerably | | | | | | farther south. | | | | | | | | | | |15. ESSELENIAN. |On the coast of W.|Somewhere in W. |Many small |Extinct; | | | California, S. of| or central | settle- | last | | | Monterey, N. of | California. | ments. | speaker of | | | the Salinan. | | | language | | | | | | died about | | | | | | 1890. | | | | | | | |16. HAIDAN |The Queen |Interior of |2 dialects;|About 900, | | (Skittagetan). | Charlotte | Alaska or | about 25 | of which | | | Islands, off the | N.W. Canada. | chief | 300 are in | | | N.W. coast of | | "towns," | Alaska. | | | British Columbia,| | and many | | | | and part of the | | minor | | | | Prince of Wales | | settle- | | | | Archipelago, | | ments. | | | | Alaska. | | | | | | | | | | |17. IROQUOIAN. |The region about |Somewhere |Some 15 |About | | | Lakes Erie and | between the | chief | 40,000, | | | Ontario (Ontario,| lower St | tribes | of which | | | New York, | Lawrence and | with many | 10,000 are | | | Pennsylvania, | Hudson's Bay | minor | in Canada; | | | Ohio, &c.), and | (Brinton, | sub- | of those in| | | on both banks of | Hale); in S. | divisions.| the United | | | the St Lawrence, | Ohio and | | States | | | on the N. to | Kentucky | | 28,000 are | | | beyond the | (Boyle, | | Cherokee. | | | Saguenay, on the | Thomas). | | | | | S. to Gaspé; also| | | | | | represented in | | | | | | the S.E. United | | | | | | States by the | | | |