JENKS} POPULATION COMPARED Jeol: 
B—INDIANS IN THE REMAINING TERRITORY—continued 
Wiyandots* (Ohio: 222422 2202 ast oa ao eee See eee ae eee See 542 
ShawneesO hig ees ae sas ocr eee oe oe ee ee ee eS a eee 800 
SenecaswOhiou ests aaah Sot oss Sik chee ke oat ee er tr 551 
Delewares; Ohio? --. 2325 22. 8 se Jee oes s Se Sn ee eee eee cees 80 
Mohawks; Ohio)! 2)s- 3-532 Goo ee rectten a ee ee eee 57 
Otiawasy ObiGs =e. sees oa ee ee ee eee ee eee mee 377 
Total’. = See | eee shoe boc eh se ee 24,158 
In the above table (I) it will be noticed that of those Indians located 
on the Mississippi river only one-half of each tribe is put in the list; 
thus it is granted that half of them may be on the west side of the 
stream, and so out of the district now considered; while of the Sioux 
(Dakota) the following bands are located in the rice fields of the St. 
Peters (Minnesota) river, though they are west of the Mississippi, and 
did the district considered include the western as well as eastern head- 
waters of this river, they would be included in the table: 





Little Raven’s band, 15 miles below St Peters river ......-......------------ 500 
Pineshow’s band; 15 miles up St Peters river -....-.-....----------.--------- 150 
Bands of the! Six 30)milesmpiSt betters miven oases eee eae 300 
Others; at lntilesRapidsiand StiReters sss se eee eee a eee ee eee ee ee 250 
Rotall=?.ee: hse se ea a ee ee eg ee 1, 200 
It will also be noticed that no foreign Indians are located in the 
wild-rice district as yet, while in the other territory a total of at 
least 1,988 Indians have been received from the East. They include 
the Munsee, Shawnee, Seneca, Delawares, and Mohawk. Also the 
Potawatomi, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Menomini Indians to the num- 
ber of 4,170 have passed south from the wild-rice district into the 
other territory. Most, if not all, of the above movements are due to 
the influence of white men. Yet, notwithstanding this fact, the wild- 
rice district continued to sustain a much larger population per square 
mile than the other territory under consideration.” Besides the Indians 
in the wild-rice district, there were for many years hundreds, perhaps 
thousands, of white men engaged in various ways in the fur trade, 
who subsisted largely on Indian natural production. 
What, then, was the cause of this relatively very dense population ? 
Mr Hebberd® says that the strip of territory above described, along 
Green bay and Fox river, was ‘‘like an oasis in a desert . . . The. 
land was exceptionally rich in all essentials of barbaric plenty.” 

1The Oneida and Stockbridge Indians came from New York to the wild-rice district near Green 
bay in 1821. Morse’s report was printed in 1822, while some of his facts were collected as early as 1820. 
2Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, vol. 111, p. 584, published in 1853, gives estimates which show the rice 
district had over 22,000 Indian population, while the remaining territory had less than 21,000. In 1829 
(House Ex. Doe. 117, Twentieth Cong., second sess.) the population of the wild-rice district was 
estimated at 45,500, and of the remaining territory at 21,167. 
3Hebberd, op. cit., pp. 35, 36. 
