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BEAVER.	Athabaskan.	About 700 on Peace river, a western	Very little.	Rather stationary.	See Babines.
		affluent of Lake Athabaska.			
Bu'3ut,A	Salishan.	287 on Dean Inlet, Bentinck Arm,	Little.	Not	very	encouraging.	Mission	lions,	Rep.	Brit.	Assoc.	Adv.	Sai.
(Bellacoola).		Bellacoola	rivet,	&c.,	coast	of		influence not yet strongly felt.	1891, and Alem. Amer. Mims. Nat.
		central	British	Columbia.	De-			Hist., 1898.
		creasing.			
BLACLFEET	Algonkian.	About 824 in Alberta, Canada.	De-	Little.	Steadily	improving	morally	and	Maclean,	Canadian	Savage	Folk
(Siksika).		creasing.		financially. Anglicans, 237; Catho-	(Toronto, 1890), and other writings;
				Has, 26o;	pagans, 327.	Grinnell,	Blackfoot	Lodge -Tales
					(N.Y.,	1903),	and	other	writings;
					Wissler,	Ann.	Arch.	Rep.	Ontario,
					1905; Schultz, My Life as an Indian
					(N.Y., 1907); Wissler, Anlhrop. Pap.
					Amer, 3lss. Nat. Hist., 1908.
BL000s.	Algonkian.	1168	near	Ft.	Macleod,	Alberta.	Little.	All	able-bodied	Indians	will	soon	See Blackfeet.
		Probably decreasing somewhat.		be self-supporting.	Presbyterians,	
				150;	Catholics,	15o;	the	rest	
				pagan.