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DEPARTMENT OF MARINE AND FISHERIES
the Eagle clan of the Haida, so named from
a legendary town on the n. side of Cumshewa
inlet, whence their ancestress, who was also
the ancestress of the Kaiahl-lanas, Konakegawai,
and Stawas-haidagai, is said to have
come. They lived in the town of Kloo.
Swanton, Cont. Haida, 273, 1905.
TsegoatI la'nas.—Boas, 12th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can.,
25, 1898.
Djihuagits {Djixudgits, Masset dialect
Chawagis, 'always low water'). A Haida town
on a creek just s. of Naikun, e. coast of
Graham id., n.w. Brit. Col. Anciently it
belonged to the Naikun-kegawai, but afterward
to the Chawagis-stustae.— Swanton,
Cont. Haida, 280, 1905.
Djus-hade {Djus-xade, 'people of the Djus
island'). A division of the Eagle clan of the
Haida, hving on an island of the same name
at the entrance of Tsooskahli, Queen Charlotte
ids., and closely related to the Widja-
gitunai, Tohlka-gitimai, and Chets-gitunai.
They afterwards moved to the mouth of
Masset inlet. A branch of the Kuna-lanas
received the same name.— Swanton, Cont.
Haida, 275, 1905.
Dzos haedrai'.—Boas, 12th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can.,
23, 1898.
Dog Creek. A Shuswap village or band
on upper Eraser r. below the mouth of Chilcotin
r., Brit. Col. Pop. 14 m 1904.— Can.
Ind. Aff. 1904, pt. 2, 72, 1904.
Do-gitunai {Do-gttAna'-i, 'Gitans of the
west coast'). A division of the Eagle clan
of the Haida. They are said to have branched
off from the Mamun-gitunai, and, as the name
imphes, their towns and camping places were
on the w. coast of Queen Charlotte id., Brit.
Col.— Swanton, Cont. Haida, 275, 1905.
Togyit'inai'.—Boas, 12th Rep. N. W. Tribes, Can., 22,
1898.
Dokis Band. A Chippewa band, so named
from their chief, residing on a reservation of
39,030 acres at the head of French r., where it
leaves lake Nipissing, Ontario. They have a
large admixture of French blood, are Roman
Cathohcs, and obtain a livelihood by hunting
and fishing and by working in adjacent lumber
camps. The sale of valuable timber has made
their band the wealthiest in Ontario; their
capital funds amount to $757,000.00. The
band numbered 62 in 1884 and 89 in 1911.
(j. M.)
2 GEORGE v., A. 1912
Domestication. The Indian learned a
great deal from and was helped in his efforts
by the actions of animals in their wild state.
The period of domestication began when he
held them in captivity for the gratification of
his desires or they became attached to him for
mutual benefit. In this process there are
gradations
1. Commensalism begins when food is left
for serviceable animals to devour, so that these
may give notice of danger or advantage. The
coyote is said to reveal the presence of the
mountain hon. Small animals are tolerated
for their skins and flesh. Plants would be
sown to attract such creatures as bees, and
tame animals would be regularly fed at later
stages.
2. Confinement is represented by such acti-
vities as keeping fish and other aquatic animals
in ponds; caging birds and carrying off their
young, gallinaceous fowl last; tying up dogs
or muzzHng them; corralling ruminants, and
hobbhng or tethering wild horses so as to have
them near, keep them away from their enemies,
or fatten them for eating. The aborigines had
no difficulty in breeding some animals in con-
finement, but few wild birds will thus propa-
gate, and the Indians could obtain those to
tame only by robbing nests. Lawson says of
the Congaree of North CaroUna that "they
take storks and cranes before they can fly and
breed them as tame and famiUar as dung-hill
fowls."
3. Keeping animals for their service or pro-
duce, as dogs for retrieving game or catching
fish, hawks for kiUing birds; various creatures
for their fleece, hides, feathers, flesh, milk, etc.,
and taming them for amusement and for ceremonial
or other purposes, were a later development.
Roger WiUiams says the Narraganset
Indians of Rhode Island kept tame hawks
about their cabins to frighten small birds from
the flelds.
4. Actually breaking them to work, training
dogs, horses, and cattle for packing, sledding,
hauhng travois, and, later, for riding, consti-
tutes complete domestication.
In pre-Columbian times the dog was the
most perfectly subdued animal of the North
Americans, as much so as the Uama in w. South
America. But other species of mammals, as
weU as birds, were in different degrees rendered
tractable. After the coming of the whites the
methods of domesticating animals were perfected,
and their uses multiplied. Moreover,