"Stick Indians" = exonym for interior Northern Athapaskans

[David D. Robertson]

In Volume 6 of the Smithsonian Institution's "Handbook of North American
Indians" are these two notes in passing about "Stick Indians".

Page 466, written by Bruce B. MacLachlan regarding the Tahltan people:  "Of
similar scope [to the Tlingit label ggunanaa 'strangers'] was the term
Stick Indians or Sticks (Smith, in Colyer 1870:567; Dall 1886:376, 379), a
loan translation of Chinook Jargon stick siwash 'forest Indian' (Pope
1866:27)."

Page 504, written by Catharine McClellan regarding the Tutchone:  [A
lengthy discussion of other Athapaskan groups' names for Tutchone literally
meaning 'dwellers in the woods' leads to this note.]  "It is an open
question whether this was always a name for this one group of Tutchones or
was a translation of the general name Stick Indians (from Chinook Jargon
stick siwash 'forest Indians') applied by coastal Indians and traders to
the interior Athapaskans of the Cordillera..."