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Creeks, CJierokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Osages, Semi- 

 noles, Winnebagoes, Pawnees, Pottaw atomies, and the Sacs 

 and Foxes. 



The wild Kiowas and Comanches, and the Arrapahoes 

 and Cheyennes, who, with some of the bands of the 

 Dakotahs, inhabit the country lying between the west of 

 the Indian territory and the eastern slopes of the Eocky 

 Mountains, number about 10,000. 



In addition to the tribes previously enumerated, there 

 are also the Chippewas, or Ojibbeways, numbering some 

 20,000, who roam about the shores of Lake Superior and 

 the banks of the Upper Mississippi ; whilst the New York 

 Indians, consisting of the remnants of the celebrated 

 Six Nations, together with other miscellaneous wandering 

 tribes, number less than 10,000. 



No satisfactory classification of the Indian tribes has 

 yet been made. That, however, which has been most 

 generally adopted is the following : 



1 . The Algonquin or Ojibbeway Confederacy occupied 

 all the country to the frozen regions, north of a line 

 commencing near Cape Fear, on the Atlantic, thence 

 extending westerly to the mouth of the Illinois Eiver, 

 thence along that river and by way of Lake Michigan, 

 Falls of St. Mary, Lake Superior, and rivers and portages 

 to the Lake of the Woods, and thence westerly to the 

 Eocky Mountains. 



2. The Mobilian,OT Cherokee Confederacy, occupying 

 the country south of the line running westerly from Cape 

 Fear to the north line of Tennessee, thence west to the 

 Mississippi, thence by the Mississippi, Arkansas, and 

 Canadian Eivers to the Eocky Mountains. 



3. The 0-chunk-o-raw, or Winnebago Confederacy, 

 extending from Lake Superior to the Arkansas Eiver, 

 including the Wisconsin Eiver and Lower Ohio, and 

 extending west to the Eocky Mountains. 



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