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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



[bull. 4i 



Follo^ving is a tabular statement of the ixjpulation of the various 

 tribes — inchiding the Mobile, Tohome, Naniaba, and Chatot — as given 

 by different writers and at different periods: 



Natchez . 



Taensa 



Avoyel 



1682 

 16SG 

 1699 

 1699 



1700 



1702 

 1715 



1716 



1721 



1718-26 



1722 



1729 

 1730 



1731 

 1731 

 1732 

 1735 



1764 

 1799 



1836 



1682 

 1698 

 1700 

 1700 

 1701 



1702 

 1718-30 

 1764 

 1806 

 1699 

 1715 (?) 

 1805 



Popula- 

 tion. 



±700 



c200 



Families. 



1,500 



Warriors. 



300 (?) 

 1,500 



4,000 



+800 



2,000 



1,200 



600 



700 

 500 



Cabins. 



300-400 

 300 



6 150 

 ^50 



+ 700(?) 



±300 

 250 



25 



+40 



40 



120 



References. 



" .\m«»nf,' Chicknsnw alone. 



'' Among- ("reeks. 



' With Apaliiche and I'akana. 



Tonti in French, Hisl. 



Coll. La., 63, 1846. 

 Tonti in Margry, D^coii 



vertes, iii, .556. 

 Iberville, ibid., iv, 179, 



1880. 

 Do Montigny in Comptc 



Rendu Cong. Internal. 



des Amer., 15th sess., i, 



36. 

 De Montigny in Margry, 



Decouvertes, iv, 411. 

 Iberville, ibid., 602. 

 Charlevoix in French, 



Hist. Coll. La., 162, 1861. 

 De Richebourg in French, 



Hist. Coll. La., 242, 1851. 

 Charlevoix in French, 



Hist. Coll. La., 162, 18.51. 

 Du Pratz, Hist, de La 



Louisiane, ii, 223, 1758. 

 Gavarre, Hist. Louisiana, 



I, 286. 

 Ibid. 

 Le Petit in Jes. Rel., 



Lxviii, 221. 

 D i r o n d' Artaguette i n 



Gayarre, Hist. Louisiana, 



I, 449. 

 Perrier quoted in Wis. 



Hist. Soc. Coll., XVII, 162, 



1906. 

 Charlevoix, Hist. N e w 



France, Shea ed., vi, 115, 



1872. 

 Letter from the Court, 



in Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll., 



XVII, 157, 1906. 

 Report of a French cap- 

 tive, in Gayarre, Hist. 



Louisiana, i, 465. 

 Bouquet in J efferson, Notes 



on Virginia, 146, 1804. 

 Hawkins in Georgia Hist. 



Soc. Coll., Ill, pt. 1, 42, 



1848. 

 Gallatin in Trans, and 



Coll. of the Amer. Antiq. 



Soc, II, 114, 1836. 

 Tonti in Margry, Decou- 

 vertes, II, 189. 

 De Montigny in Shea, 



Early Voy. 'Miss., 76. 

 Iberville" in Margry, 



Decouvertes, iv, 413, 414. 

 La Harpe, Jour. Hist., 29, 



1831. 

 St. Cosme in Compte Ren- 

 du Cong. Internat. des 



Am^r.. 15th sess., l, 36. 

 Iberville in Margry, 



Decouvertes, iv, 602. 

 Du Pralz, Hist, de La 



Louisiane, ll, 213. 

 D'Abbadic (juoted in Amer. 



Aiitiii., Sept., 1891. 

 Siblev in Ann. 9th Cong., 



1087, 1852. 



Iberville in Margry, Decou- 

 vertes, JV, 408, 1880. 



Baudrv de Lozieres, Vov. 

 il La' Louisiane. 249.1802. 



Siblev in Ann. 9th Cong., 



1088, 1862. 



