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NATIVES OF COPPER RIVER
! ARE INTELUGENT TRIBE
Upon examination of the natives of
the Copper river if is found that they j
as a rule are between a feet 6 and
a feet H itioes in height, although
eccasionally a man fully ti feet high
is seen. They weight about 14'> to
1 HO pounds; the color of their skin
Is brown, tinged with copper, and is
much dtirker titan that of the coast
natives; ihoir hair is generally wavy,
and is straight and coarse, and their
eyes are invariably black, or nearly
so A great deal of difference in the
mobility of their countenances is no
ticed, many of them lining as nearly
capable of indicating emotions as
those of the civilized people, while
others are entirely devoid of expres
sion under any circumstances.
; Their muscular strength is not so
remarkable as their ability to travel
j great distances in a short time on but
little rations. When Captain Aber
crombie made his exploring trip up
| the river, in 1 m:»S. he had a hunch of
J picked men with him. and the Indians
' compared most favorably with his
party in both endurance and feats of
strength
The Copper liiver Indians differ
from many tribes in having small fam
ilies. ii being an unusual occurrence i
to sec a father und mother with more j
| Ilian three children. Whether the J
; smallness of the family is due to the
great hardships they undergo In mak
ing a livelihood 1 am unable to say.
J It is a fact, though, that the families
with the most children are generally
the pools- t. as is the case with the
white races. One of the most desti
tute families among the tribes con
sists of a mother, father and lour
children, and they are generally ema
ciated by hunger The past few years
tin- tribes have suffered greatly on
account of their means ol securing
find being .•■but off fr tn them by can
nerles established as far up the ri\er
\licrcromlii" i atiyou The lish arc
not permitted t > ascend the river in
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sufficient quantities for the natives to
store food for themselves and dogs.
Their teeth are generally very bad,
caused by the food they eat and inat
tention Many children are seen with
the first set worn almost to the gums,
and In adults it is a common thing
to see the teeth worn to the gums
while the body is yet in full vigor of
manhood or womanhood.
Their faces show the great hard
ships they are forced to undergo*, be
ing seamed and c racked with frost
and exposure to the elements. Their
hair turns gray much quicker than
does a white man's at the same age.
Owing to their ignorance of methods
of computing time, it is. Impossible
to definitely ascertain their exact
ages. Messala. however, who used to
live on the left hank of the Copper
river about one day's march from
Taral, and who is supposed to have
led the party which massacred the
Russian soldiers in ISIS, was then a
man of influence and years, and In*
was still alive in IS'av when Captain
Abercrombie made his trip through
the country
The only sickness peculiar to the
Indians is caused from costiveness,
which doubtless is caused by the food
used in winter, and which disappears
when berries a hit flub come. They
al*;o suffer more or less from « olds
and pulmonary trouble The chief
cause of mortality is from consump.
Don. Hut one natural deformity was
noticed when Captain Ahe/crombie ob
served them -a shriveled leg yet the
|.ic> of neat'!" !|ll are abnormally
crooked from trawling on -nowshoes.
Their sagacity in following trails and
htintina game is astonishing to one
not accustomed to tile skill ot tile
plains Indians.
'l ie Russians used to ( all Die peo
ple of Cue Copper River c ion Mid
nooskies (more properly Mlilnovlsit,
and all belong to the great Tinneh
latuily which peoples Die interior ot
\ la ska Those b. low the Tazlina
river, from their association with the
Russian-, have adopted some ahbr
viated f inns of the same, such as
Minn.sky. Monoosky, etc,, while tltose
above style themselves Jptlatans. The
name Attiatana. the Indian name for
the inhabitants of Atna (Copper) river
.region, would be a fitting term for
with tribes, who differ very little one
from the other. To particularize, the
term Mldnoosky lias been used for
lit- people outh of the Tazlina, and
Tatlatah for (hose living north of the
Copper river — —
The entire number of Indians living
on the fiver and its tributaries is at
the present time about (titi. divided
as follows: Men. US; women. SS;
children. U>o Between Alganik and
Wood canyon, a distance of about lie
miles, there are no settlements, yet
an occasional party goes down to
Rremner river to hunt and fish On
tlie Chitlna and its tributaries are
about :m souls; on the headwaters
of the Tazlina and Lake 1’laveznle
live about 20 natives The Tatlataus.
including the settlement at Lake Sus
lota. number 117. On the Copper, In
cluding tributaries between the Taz
lina and Taral. are 'Juu. Chief Nico
lai, who died this year, was the au
tocrat of the Chitlna river and the
big fishing rendezvous. Taral. while
between the latter place and the Taz
lina this privilege was exercised by
Chief Liebigstug and Chief Cone
quanta. the former controlling the
lower part and the latter, with the
largest following, the tipper. The
chief native among the Tatlataus at
the time the white man first invaded
the Copper was Batzulnetu. who was
also a shaman
As far as anyone is able to judge
from the scanty records of the Rus
sians, the change in these people up
to the time the Americans first in
vaded the district in ISPS was slight.
Their history as far back as the rec
ords are concerned will always be a
sealed book. They have many legends
telling of their origin, among which
j ate that their forefathers came from
j the land of eternal snows, across the
! Idg sea. in skin boats, and that heavy
storms kept them from returning and
! they drifted south. Hut there is no
reliance lo lie placed in any of their
j legends, as they are inveterate liars
and make up their stories to suit the
fancy of (lie listener. On both banks
of the Copper between the Chitinn
, and the K1 awahsina rivers, more espe
; daily on the left luufk, were excava 1
i lions two lo four feet deep, indicat
ing that houses were once built. The I
more recent of these at the time the
tir: i Valdezans went over the pass
* i
and up the Copper showed indications |
I of having hath houses attached Kveu I
| In those days spruce trees of large!
size were growing in the excavations. '
Their diet is limited, scanty in va
riety and in quantity They eat tisli
and. game in the winter In various
stages of ripeness and decay. In the
summer they have many berries, in
cluding cranberries, blueberries, a
sniutl rod berry called by them "gin
iss’: a small black berry they call
'•gizneh,'' similar to the red one. and **
a fruit called tomba, that grows on a j
bush several feet high It hangs on I
the bushes all winter and may be
eaten in the spring, even to tftw early
summer, when it gets very dry and j
(Continued on Cage Seven)
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