PART V. 



INDIANS.— MONUMENTS. 



The Imliaii tribes now iiiliabiling ihc country under our con- 

 sideration are the 



Chippewas, inhabiting the country toward the sources of 

 the Missisippi, above St. Peter's, and toward Lake Supe- 

 rior. With a small band of less tlian 200 inhabiting about 



Black River, they amount to - 7,780 



The Menominies in Wisconsin, - - - - 2,508 

 The New York Indians, '' _ _ . . 3,293 



Oncidas of Green Bay, 720 



Potawatamics of Huron, 100 



Stockbridge of Green Bay, 207 



Stockbridge and Munsee, 388 



Dahcotahs (Sioux), - 25,000 



Winnebagoes, --__ 2,183 



Potawatamics, - 2,200 



44,379 



Perhaps the Oneidas, Stockbridge, and 



Stockl)ridge and Munsee are included in the 

 New York, and if so, they are repeated, and 

 there should be deducted from the above - - 1,315 



43,004 



The whole number is therefore, in that case, about 43,000. 

 Of these the greater part, the Sioux, Potawatamics, and the 



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