Note 96 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.

Another division of the Shushwaps are the Atnahs on Fraser River (not to be confused with the Atnas on Copper River). Mackenzie describes a division of Indians, whom he does not mention under a separate name; but they seem to be akin to the Atnahs. “The Atnah and Chin tribe,” says Mackenzie, “as far as I can judge from the very little I saw of that people, bear the nearest resemblance to them.” On these Indians he remarks: “The strangers who live among these people are kept by them in a state of awe and subjection”96. These strangers perhaps are slaves; but the lack of further details prevents our arriving at any positive conclusion.