Indian population in the United States and Alaska. 1910 - RootsWeb

STOCKS AND TRIBES, BY SEX, AGE, AND BLOOD. 107
WAKASHAN STOCK.
Stock as a whole.—^A stock whose main area of dis-
tribution lies outside the United States, in British
Columbia, mainly in Vancouver Island and the adjacent
mainland coast as far north &i 54 degrees north
latitude.
The Indians of the Wakashan stock in the United
States, as enumerated in 1910, numbered 388. The
tribes of this stock, for which members were reported,
are as follows
:
Kitamat. Makah.
•
KwaMutl.
Nootka.
Kitamat—A tribe closely related to the Kwakiutl,
living on Douglas Channel, British Columbia. One
white haK-breed woman, belonging to this tribe, was
enumerated in Washington in 1910.
Kwakiutl.—A tribe occupying the ^
northeastern portion
of Vancouver Island. One male, a mixed
Kwakiutl-Lummi, was reported from Washington in
1910.
Makah.—The only tribe of this stock living within
the United States, the other members occupying parts
of Vancouver Island and the adjacent coast of British
Columbia.
The Makah have lived, since known to Europeans
at the end of the eighteenth century, in the vicinity of
Cape Flattery, Wash., where a reservation was estab-
lished for them in 1855.
The number enumerated in 1910 was 360, of which
354 were in Washington and 6 in Oregon. From the
following figures, taken from the reports of the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, it. is seen that the general
course of the population of this tribe in Washington
was slightly downward from 1870 to 1900, after which
there was an increase. The high figures for 1865 and
1880 must have been due to errors of some sort.
TEAR.