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Pike reported that in 1806 there were 450 warriors, 500 women, and 
1,000 children—a total population of 1,950 in the seven Winnebago 
villages. In 1812 it was said that there were 700 warriors, 1,000 
women, and 1,800 children, or a total of 2,800, while in 1820 there 
were 900 warriors, 1,300 women, and 3,600 children, a total of 5,800.” 
Probably 2,000 souls is a very conservative estimate of the number of 
Indians of this tribe who used wild rice during the period with which 
this memoir deals. 

Tur PorTrawaToMI 
It will be remembered that the Potawatomi (Potewa’tmik) are mem- 
bers of the great Algonquian stock, which comprised also the Ojibwa 
and Ottawa, and which split into three sections at Sault Ste Marie. The 
present Indians, the ‘*Potta-wat-um-ees,” or **’Those-who-make-or- 
keep-a-fire,” came southward along the west shore of Green bay and 
Lake Michigan after the separation alluded to. In 1658 they were 
reported to be the nearest tribe to the settlement of St Michel near the 
head of Green bay.’ They were then called Oupouteouatamik, and 
numbered 700 men, or 3,000 souls, including 100 of the Petun or Tobacco 
tribe. Marquette’s map of 1673 places the Psrrsram1 (Potawatomi) 
between Green bay and Lake Michigan. They undoubtedly consumed 
wild rice at this time, were noted as traders, and were the middle- 
men between the French and Indians farther inland. Their trading 
instinct doubtless in large measure explains their departure, for when 
the French settled at Detroit, some of the Potawatomi followed them 
there; others stopped at St Joseph river, Michigan, where they pro- 
duced wild rice (to which numerous references will later be made); 
still others stopped at Chicago, where they used wild rice, as will also 
be shown. 
Though none of this tribe resides on a reservation in the wild-rice 
district, yet in 1883 it was said that 280 of them were nomads in Wis- 
consin, and in 1897 the same estimate of population was made. Doubt- 
less 2,000 or 2,500 of these Indians consumed wild rice at one time. 
THe MAsKorTin 
In 1658 Pére Gabriel Druillettes spoke of the ‘‘ Makoutensak,” the 
Maskotin, as being the third ‘‘nation” west of St Michel at Green 
bay. A map of 1672 places the ‘‘Mascoutens ou Nation du Feu” 
along the southwest side of Lake Winnebago. On Marquette’s map 
of 1673 the Masxsrens are on Fox river above Lake Winnebago. 
In 1718 the *‘ Feu” were at Chicagou (Chicago), according to a French 
map.* Hennepin’s map of 1687 places the Mascoutens, or Nation du 
Feu, south of the mouth of Fox river. According to others they 


1 Pike, op. cit. 3 Relations des Jésuites, 1658, p. 21. 
2Morse, Report, app., p. 59. 4Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. 
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