176 NOTES ON THE NORTHWEST. 



Chippcwas of the Missisippi, amounting to about 35,000, are 

 at a distance from the white settlements, and have but httle 

 intercourse with them ; and about 8,000 or 9,000 are near 

 the wliites, and either reside among them or frequently visit 

 them. The Sauks and Foxes, about 2,000, left this district 

 last fall, for the land allotted them by the government south- 

 west of the Missouri. There are several small tribes on the 

 west bank of the Missouri ; and high up that stream the 

 Mandans, Arikarees, and Blackfeet, occasionally pass east of 

 the river, and roam over parts of the district comprehended 

 within our pages. The Blackfeet reside partly within it. 



The early French travellers to this region mention many 

 tribes who have now disappeared ; some of whom have been 

 known in later times, and others who perhaps have not been 

 heard of except through them. — Charlevoix names the Octo- 

 tatas,* otherwise called Mactotatas, near the mouth of the 

 Missouri, and the Moingonas, on the river of that name ; also, 

 the Peorias, Tamaroas, Caokias, Kaskaskias, and Mitchiga- 

 meas, who were tribes of the Illinois ; Mascotins and the 

 Saulteurs of St. Marie, whose name he gives in their own 

 language as Pauoirigwiwhac, the Nokets on Green Bay, the 

 Ochagras, and the Kickapoos, are frequently named, and the 

 Outagamis, who are the Foxes, and are now called by them- 

 selves Muskwakas. The Isati were mentioned as inhabiting 

 about the Falls of St. Anthony, and perhaps have that name 

 by corruption from Saulteurs, which seems also to have been 

 applied to them. They are probably the Chippeway. It is 

 said by some that the name of the river Theakike was taken 

 from a tribe of that name. All the travellers have spoken of 

 the Naudoessies, so they spell it, who seem to have been the 

 Dacotas, the name applied to them being no other than their 



* They are called by others Ottoetatas, and may be the people now called 

 Ottoes. 



