The Navajo, since first known to history, have occupied the country on and south of the San Juan River in northern New Mexico and Arizona and extending into Colorado and Utah. They were surrounded on all sides by the cognate Apache except upon the north, where they meet Shoshonean tribes.

PRINCIPAL TRIBES.
A. Northern group:
Ah-tena.
Kaiyuh-khotana.
Kcaltana.
K’naia-khotana.
Koyukukhotana.		Kutchin.
Montagnais.
Montagnards.
Nagailer.
Slave.		Sluacus-tinneh.
Taculli.
Tahl-tan (1).
Unakhotana.
B. Pacific group:
Ătaăkût.
Chasta Costa.
Chetco.

Dakube tede (on Applegate Creek).

Euchre Creek.
Hupâ.
Kălts’erea tûnnĕ.
Kenesti or Wailakki.		Kwalhioqua.
Kwaʇami.
Micikqwûtme tûnnĕ.
Mikono tûnnĕ.
Owilapsh.
Qwinctûnnetûn.
Saiaz.

Taltûctun tûde (on Galice Creek).

Tcêmê (Joshuas).
Tcĕtlĕstcan tûnnĕ.
Terwar.
Tlatscanai.
Tolowa.
Tutu tûnnĕ.
C. Southern group:
Arivaipa.
Chiricahua.
Coyotero.
Faraone.
Gileño.
Jicarilla.		Lipan.
Llanero.
Mescalero.
Mimbreño.
Mogollon.
Na-isha.		Navajo.
Pinal Coyotero.
Tchĕkûn.
Tchishi.

[Population.—]The present number of the Athapascan family is about 32,899, of whom about 8,595, constituting the Northern group, are in Alaska and British North America, according to Dall, Dawson, and the Canadian Indian-Report for 1888; about 895, comprising the Pacific group, are in Washington, Oregon, and California; and about 23,409, belonging to the Southern group, are in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Indian Territory. Besides these are the Lipan and some refugee Apache, who are in Mexico. These have not been included in the above enumeration, as there are no means of ascertaining their number.

Northern group.—This may be said to consist of the following:

Ah-tena (1877)364?
Ai-yan (1888)250
Al-ta-tin (Sicannie) estimated (1888)500
of whom there are at Fort Halkett (1887)73
of whom there are at Fort Liard (1887)78
Chippewyan, Yellow Knives, with a few Slave and Dog Rib at Fort Resolution469
Dog Rib at Fort Norman133
Dog Rib, Slave, and Yellow Knives at Fort Rae657
Hare at Fort Good Hope364
Hare at Fort Norman103
Kai-yuh-kho-tána (1877), Koyukukhotána (1877), and Unakhotána (1877)2,000?
K’nai-a Khotána (1880)250?
Kutchin and Bastard Loucheux at Fort Good Hope95
Kutchin at Peel River and La Pierre’s House337
Kutchin on the Yukon (six tribes)842
Nahanie at Fort Good Hope8
Nahanie at Fort Halkett (including Mauvais Monde, Bastard Nahanie, and Mountain Indians)332
Nahanie at Fort Liard38
Nahanie at Fort Norman43
421
Nahanie at Fort Simpson and Big Island (Hudson Bay Company’s Territory)87
Slave, Dog Rib, and Hare at Fort Simpson and Big Island (Hudson Bay Company’s Territory)658
Slave at Fort Liard281
Slave at Fort Norman84
Tenán Kutchin (1877)700?
8,595?

To the Pacific Group may be assigned the following:

Hupa Indians, on Hoopa Valley Reservation, California468
Rogue River Indians at Grande Ronde Reservation, Oregon47
Siletz Reservation, Oregon (about one-half the Indians thereon)300?
Umpqua at Grande Ronde Reservation, Oregon80
895?

Southern Group, consisting of Apache, Lipan, and Navajo: