The classification is compiled from many sources, and although it contains many errors and inconsistencies, it affords on the whole a good general idea of prevalent views on the subject.

  1880.  Powell (John Wesley).

  Pueblo Indians.  In the American Naturalist.  Philadelphia, 1880,
    vol. 14.

This is a two-page article in which is set forth a classification of the Pueblo Indians from linguistic considerations.  The Pueblos are divided into four families or stocks, viz: 

1.  Shinumo. 2.  Zunian. 3.  Keran. 4.  Tewan.

Under the several stocks is given a list of those who have collected vocabularies of these languages and a reference to their publication.

  1880.  Eells (Myron).

  The Twana language of Washington Territory.  In the American
    Antiquarian.  Chicago, 1880-’81, vol. 3.

This is a brief article—­two and a half pages—­on the Twana, Clallam, and Chemakum Indians.  The author finds, upon a comparison of vocabularies, that the Chemakum language has little in common with its neighbors.

  1885.  Dall (William Healey).

  The native tribes of Alaska.  In Proceedings of the American
    Association for the Advancement of Science, thirty-fourth meeting,
    held at Ann Arbor, Mich., August, 1885.  Salem, 1886.

This paper is a timely contribution to the subject of the Alaska tribes, and carries it from the point at which the author left it in 1869 to date, briefly summarizing the several recent additions to knowledge.  It ends with a geographical classification of the Innuit and Indian tribes of Alaska, with estimates of their numbers.

  1885.  Bancroft (Hubert Howe).

  The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. 3:  the native races, vol. 3,
    myths and languages.  San Francisco, 1882.

  [Transcriber’s Note: 
  Vols. 1-5 collectively are “The Native Races”; vol. 3 is Myths and
  Languages.]

In the chapter on that subject the languages are classified by divisions which appear to correspond to groups, families, tribes, and dialects.

The classification does not, however, follow any consistent plan, and is in parts unintelligible.

  1882.  Gatschet (Albert Samuel).

  Indian languages of the Pacific States and Territories and of the
    Pueblos of New Mexico.  In the Magazine of American History.  New
    York, 1882, vol. 8.

This paper is in the nature of a supplement to a previous one in the same magazine above referred to.  It enlarges further on several of the stocks there considered, and, as the title indicates, treats also of the Pueblo languages.  The families mentioned are: 

1.  Chimariko. 2.  Washo. 3.  Yakona. 4.  Sayuskla. 5.  Kusa. 6.  Takilma. 7.  Rio Grande Pueblo. 8.  Kera. 9.  Zuni.

  1883.  Hale (Horatio).