JENKS] INDIAN POPULATION 1109 
/ 
TasLle ¥—Estimate of the Indian population in 1778, at the outbreak of the Revolution, 
by a trader who had resided many years in the vicinity of Detroit} 
A—INDIANS IN THE WILD-RICE DISTRICT 

Total 



Whe ee ehen 
| : Warriors | ,opulation 
Chippewees, about lake Huron, the upper parts of lake Michigan, 
and then northwest to the Mississippi, 5,000 (see estimate of 1764, 
MELA latin ese 224 Lee ee el La ait bk eee 4,000 | 20,000 
| Mineamies, northwest of lake Michigan....................---...--..- 2,000 | 10, 000 
500 2, 000 
32, 000 



B—INDIANS IN THE REMAINING TERRITORY 





Wiondots, in neighborhood of Detroit and Sandusky ..............--- 180 
| Potowatomies, in neighborhood of St Josephs river, ete............... 450 | 
Miamies, in neighborhood of Miami river..................----------- 300 
Shawanese, on the Wabash and other branches of the Ohio........... 300 
Delawares and Munsees, between Pittsburgh and Sandusky, on the | 
| IMSEIn BUC te oo = cin ley certhy clan ete ches Ree et eee ee eee 600 8,000 | 
| Chippewees (see estimate of these Indians in the rice district) ......- 1, 000 5,000 | 
Gram ditotel acne ce cates ceeaecn ee aaa he eee tee ni ere te | Men ata 14, 150 | 



1 Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, vol. II, pp. 960, 561, from manuscripts of James Monroe. This estimate 
leaves several important tribes out of each district. Only the column headed ‘‘ Warriors” is given 
by Schcoleraft. The total population is figured at Bouquet’s estimate. 
Taste G—Lieulenant Z. M. Pikes estimate of Indian population in the wild-rice dis- 
trict in 1806! 












| : | Probable 
Warriors | total 
population 
| Se ae 
| 1. Chipeways of Sandy lake 45 | 345 
2. Chipeways of Leech lake =e 150 | 1, 120 
‘BC HIDE WaystOlmRed Ai Caa ce meen eee) ee meen) ne oi eee ene ee 150 1,020 
4. Chipeways of St. Croix and Chipeway rivers.................-.-. | 104 689 
5. Chipeways of other bands generally 1, 600 8,000 
Gi sWinnebagoes'sss. satecee ce ssccee sete atee weit noe se ee eens 450 1,950 | 
ease len Om Cnes: -se les secede ee eases ct ce SARC ene on eae | 300 1,350 | 
8. Sues, Minowa Kantong band (which, Pike says (Coues, Pike, 1, | 
p. 344), used wild rice very extensively).................---...-: | 305 2,105 
| 9. Sauks 700 2,850 
| 10. Foxe 400 1, 750 
(Chal OVE ae tee steno cco annne anes Beenaeecacd ace oso onseaneees peoeescgdase 221,179 
1Pike, Account of Expeditions. . .. Table F, to face p. 66, appendix, part 1. Both columns of 
figures are given by Pike. 
*Dr Morse called attention to the following fact in his report to the Secretary of War in 1822, 
Appendix, p.375: The proportion of warriors to the whole number of Indians in a tribe varies, or 
did vary at the time of their support by Indian natural productions. He found that where fish con- 
stituted a large part of the subsistence the proportion of men was less. This is but to say that in the 
presence of fish or nourishing subsistence the population increases more rapidly. Among tribes thus 
favorably situated women and children will be more numerous—a fact to which early chroniclers 
gave testimony in the wild-rice district of Wisconsin (women as well as children are relatively 
more numerous among well-nourished primitive peoples, for it was the female child which was 
oftenest sacrificed by infanticide in such districts as for the tine had a scarcity of subsistence). 
Morse’s figures, which follow, explain themselves: 
