Note 35 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.

According to Kane, who was well acquainted with this group, “slavery in its most cruel form exists among the Indians of the whole coast, from California to Behring’s Straits, the stronger tribes making slaves of all the others they can conquer. In the interior, where there is but little warfare, slavery does not exist.” Niblack, however, states that slavery existed among the interior Tinneh but they “had no hereditary slaves, getting their supply from the coast”35.