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MAMMALIA. 



Bos ameriranus. Biiffiilo. 

 Ccrvus ctiniiiicnsis. t?:iy. Elk. 



inacrolis, Stiy. Bliick tail Drer. 



virgini/tnus, {L) Cominoii Deer. 

 Antilope ainericana, Ord. Aiiteiijpe. 

 Ovis montaiiu, Desm. Bif^lioiii. 

 Vrsus jerox. Grizzly Bi-ar. 

 * * (imerkanus. Brown Bear. 



Mdes luhniiliirin, Sab. Ba(lj;er. 

 Gulo liiscus Sab. Wolverptie. 

 Lupus ocnidentulis. Rail. W'liilp Wolf. 



latruns, Say. PiMine Wolf. 

 Vulpiis velox. Say. Svvil't Fox. 

 JMtphilis citinga ? Skunk. 

 Mustcla cunatlensis. Fisher. 

 Lyni: canadensis. Canada Lynx. 

 Castor aniericanus, Itii/i. Beaver, 

 Lepus townsendii. Buck. Townsend'.s Hare. 

 artemisia, Back. Wdrinvvood Hare. 

 * syhalicus ? Back. Conitnou Rabbit. 

 ' Spcrinopkilus liidviriiinus. Say. Prairie Doff. 



* tridcrcmlinentns, Afilck. Prairie Squirrel. 



* Sciurus cinereus, (L) (at Stjiiiirei. 



• niger. Blac-k S(|nirrel. 



*niacrourui. Say. (ireat tailed Squirrel. 



* Tamins ijuadnmltalus. Say. Four lined Ground Squirrel. 

 Neoloma fiuridana. Wood Kat. 



* Mus musrntus, (L) House Mouse. 

 Hesperonnjs Icucopiis ? I'nf Peer Mouse. 

 Psuednstuma liorealis, Hick. Gopher. 

 llyslrix. doisuta. Porcupine. 



The following new Species are indicated as occnrrins; in this region, by Maximilian Prince de 

 Wied, (Voyage dans rAmenqne dii Mord. Pans, 1843. 3 vols. 8 vo.) 

 Vpspcrli/'O vrsinus. Fori I'ninn. 

 Hypudans tencDgdstrr. Alandan V^iilage. 

 Ferognatus J'uscus, Fort Union. 



AN EXPLANATION OF THE TABULAR VIEW OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE 



UPPER MISSOURI. 

 BY THADDEUS A CULBERTSON, JULY ISoO. 



Explanation of the Tabular view of the Sioux JWdion of the U. Missouri. 



These tables are designed to show the numbers, principal tribes, .iinaller divisions and 

 country of that part of the Sionx Nation living on the Upper Missouri. The inforniaiion lias 

 been gathered from Mr (i^hailes Gilpin, of Fort Pierre, Irom several Indian chiefs, and has 

 been submitted f> the inspection of Mr. Henry Picolte and Mr. Alexander Cnllierlson, partners 

 of the American Fur coni|)any, and for many years familiar with the nation referred to. as well as 

 with those higher up the ri\('r. The Sioux nation occupies ihe inmense tract o( country 

 extending in a sioiith west dirertiou Irom the Upper Alississippi to the Platte river, and bounded 

 on the West liy the Black 11 ills. 



This tal)le does not refer to that part of the nation living on the Mississippi. Three thousand 

 lodges may hi- relied on as very nearly the correct number of those living on the Missouri, 

 according to the testimony of the be.-t authority, and thirty thousand as nearly the correct number 

 of souls; the average souls per lixige has been put at ten. (ui Ihe auihorily of ftlr. I'icotte, who 

 has had every <ipp(irttinity of making a correct estimate. He thinks that eight souls per lodge 

 might not be loo low, but he prel'rrs to put the esiimate at ten. 



The first division of the uiition is into three large tribes: — The Yaiiktons, the Ynnktonnanfl 

 and the Ti oiis or Tilonwans. 'IMiese speak the same hingiiage and always maintain friendly 

 relations, but they have few interests in common ; so far as 1 could learn, they liold towards each 

 other no relation at all unalagous to a federal union. 



