NUMBEJl OF INDIANS. 



437 



Pawnees, . . 6,500 



Omalias and Otoes, 3,180 



DeJavvares, . . 1,600 



Shawanese, . . 6,350 



Kansas, . . 1,500 



Osages, . . . 6,500 



Senecas, . . 400 



Senecas and Shawanese, 320 



Miamis, . . 1 ; 000 



Wyandots, . . 450 



Kickapoos, . 1,800 

 Peorias, Piankasbaws, 



Weas, and Kaskas- 



kias, . . , 1,000 



Wirnebagos, 5,300 



Sacs, . 6,300 



Menomonies, 4,000 



Crows, . 4,500 



Arripabas, 4 ; 000 



Crees, . 3,000 



Ottavvas, 4,000 



Algonquias, 3,000 

 And about twenty otber 



small tribes, including 



Mandans, Arickarees, 



&c. &c. . . 25,000 



Total, 



202,700 



As the settlement and future prospects of Illinois are con 

 nected with the Indians, the policy of the United States Go 

 vernment towards them may be explained by extracts from a 

 report of the Secretary of War to the President, dated November 

 25, 1832 : &quot; In the practice of European states,&quot; says Pre 

 sident Adams, &quot; before our revolution, the Indians had been 

 considered as children, to be governed as tenants at discre 

 tion, to be dispossessed as occasion may require, as hunters to 

 be indemnified by trifling concessions for removal from the 

 grounds upon which their game was extirpated. In changing 

 the system it would seem as if a full contemplation of the con 

 sequences of the change had not been taken. We have been 

 far more successful in the acquisition of their lands than im 

 parting to them the principles, or inspiring them with the spirit 

 of civilisation. But in apportioning to ourselves their hunting 

 grounds, we have brought on ourselves the obligation of pro 

 viding them with subsistence ; and when we have had the rare 

 good fortune of teaching them the arts of civilisation and the 

 doctrines of Christianity, we have unexpectedly found them 

 forming, in the midst of ourselves, communities, claiming to 

 be independent of ours, and rivals of sovereignty, within the 

 territories of the members of the Union. This state of things 

 requires that a remedy should be provided a remedy which, 

 while it shall do justice to the unfortunate children of nature, 

 may secure to the members of our confederation their rights 

 of sovereignty and of soil. As an outline of a project to that 

 effect, the views presented in the report of the Secretary of 

 War are recommended to the consideration of Congress. 



