[Footnote 67:  Nat.  Hist.  Man, 1850, p. 325.]

Mr. Gatschet, as above, distinguishes the language as forming a distinct stock.  It is spoken on the coast of middle Oregon, on Coos River and Bay, and at the mouth of Coquille River, Oregon.

TRIBES.

  Anasitch. 
  Melukitz. 
  Mulluk or Lower Coquille. 
  Nacu?.

Population.—­Most of the survivors of this family are gathered upon the Siletz Reservation, Oregon, but their number can not be stated as the agency returns are not given by tribes.

LUTUAMIAN FAMILY.

= Lutuami, Hale in U.S.  Expl.  Exp., VI, 199, 569, 1846 (headwaters Klamath River and lake).  Gallatin in Trans.  Am.  Eth.  Soc., II, pt. 1, c, 17, 77, 1848 (follows Hale).  Latham, Nat.  Hist.  Man, 325, 1850 (headwaters Clamet River).  Berghaus (1851), Physik.  Atlas, map 17, 1852.  Latham in Proc.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., VI, 82, 1854.  Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., 74, 1856.  Latham, Opuscula, 300, 310, 1860.  Latham, El.  Comp.  Phil., 407, 1862.

  = Luturim, Gallatin in Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, III, 402, 1853
  (misprint for Lutuami; based on Clamets language).

  = Lutumani, Latham, Opuscula, 341, 1860 (misprint for Lutuami).

  = Tlamatl, Hale in U.S.  Expl.  Exp., VI, 218, 569, 1846 (alternative of
  Lutuami).  Berghaus (1851), Physik.  Atlas, map 17, 1852.

  = Clamets, Hale in U.S.  Expl.  Exp., VI, 218, 569, 1846 (alternative of
  Lutuami).

  = Klamath, Gatschet in Mag.  Am.  Hist., 164, 1877.  Gatschet in Beach. 
  Ind.  Misc., 439, 1877.  Gatschet in Am.  Antiq., 81-84, 1878 (general
  remarks upon family).

< Klamath, Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp. (Cent. and So.  Am.), 460, 475, 1878 (a geographic group rather than a linguistic family; includes, in addition to the Klamath proper or Lutuami, the Yacons, Modocs, Copahs, Shastas, Palaiks, Wintoons, Eurocs, Cahrocs, Lototens, Weeyots, Wishosks, Wallies, Tolewahs, Patawats, Yukas, “and others between Eel River and Humboldt Bay.”  The list thus includes several distinct families).  Bancroft, Nat.  Races, III, 565, 640, 1882 (includes Lutuami or Klamath, Modoc and Copah, the latter belonging to the Copehan family).

  = Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon, Gatschet in Cont, N.A.  Eth.,
  II, pt. 1, XXXIII, 1890.

Derivation:  From a Pit River word meaning “lake.”

The tribes of this family appear from time immemorial to have occupied Little and Upper Klamath Lakes, Klamath Marsh, and Sprague River, Oregon.  Some of the Modoc have been removed to the Indian Territory, where 84 now reside; others are in Sprague River Valley.

The language is a homogeneous one and, according to Mr. Gatschet who has made a special study of it, has no real dialects, the two divisions of the family, Klamath and Modoc, speaking an almost identical language.