194 J. H. Lefroy on the Indian Population of British America. 
The foregoing enumeration, although it embraces a large extent 
of country, does not bring us into contact with the more numer 
ous tribes, which are to be found only on the plains, where count- 
less herds of Buffalo furnish ample means of subsistence. Without 
going into any nicety of or founded upon affinities of 
race, upon which subject Dr. Latham and Sir John Richardson 
(Arctic Expedition) have given as information, the tribes are 
referred to here by the designations they commonly bear among 
the traders. Mr. Harriet, then, a gentleman who had passed. his 
life among them, estimated the six or seven tribes going by t 
general name of Blackfeet, as mustering 1,600 to 1,700 tents, at 
8 per tent, 13,200. 
Mr. Rowland, one of the oldest resident traders, g gives them 
thus :—Sir John Franklin’s estimate in 1820, is added— 
Franklin, 1820. 
350 
Blackfeet, proper: - . - 300 
Pe-a-gans, ee 400 
Blood India - 250 300 
Gros Vague: or Fall Indians, - 400 500 
Circees, i 45 150 
Cotones, 
100 
Small Robes, Mountain Tribes, 3} 150 
1645 at 8 He t. 13,160 
Mr. Shaw allowed to the Blackfeet, only 12,000 
Considering that these are perfectly independent estimates, they 
agree remarkably, and we may take _— their mean— 
The Blackfeet tribes, - ,900 
We have next the Assiniboines, a 5 tribe of the Sioux, and said 
to be of the Iroquois stock: they are distinguished into those fre- 
quenting the woods, and those frequenting the plains, or Strong- 
wood and Plain Assiniboines : 
Mr. Harriet, in 1842, gave Strongwood - 80 tents. 
Mr. Rowland gave Plain Assiniboines, - 300 3,200 
Mr. Shaw gave, both together - 4,000 
Giving for Assiniboines - . - 3.600 
For the Strongwood Crees about Edmon- Tents. 
ton, Mr. Rowland gave, - - - 100 es 
Other Crees of the plate. See 2,000 
Mr. Shaw gave, . en wining ly 
(3.) Crees, - epee 
(4.) Ojibwas, or oisosnes of the Saskat- . 
chawan—Mr. Rowland, 20 200 
I. The aggregate, then, of the tribes inhabiting the Plains, in 
the British ‘Territory, by competent authorities was, in 18 not 
