INDIAN POPULATION, 275 
as I believe, still retain their ancient systems 
of arbitrary chiefs and councils of sages and 
braves, nearly in their primitive state; and 
that the greater portion of them live i in log 
huts, and “cultivate the soil to a considerable 
extent. Though the Shawnees, Delawares, 
and Kickapoos, are among the most agricul- 
tural of the northern Indians, yet a few of these 
spend the greater portion of their time on the 
Prairies in hunting and in trading with the 
wild tribes.* 
* No complete census has been taken of the frontier Indians since 
their removal ; but the ea egate population of those settled west 
of the border, exclusiv the Osages, Kansas, ge others of the 
north (who are more deeerpcintdly ranked among the Prairie In- 
poems is 81,541, ego oe ae! Report of the reba ea of 
India: , for year f these, there are reckoned of 
Cherokees, 25, 911; Checnon “4 177 ; Chickasaws, 4,930; Creeks, 
; Semino oles, or Florida s, 3,824; Senecas 
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Stockbridges, Mun 00 &ce.,  o78 : Kickapoos, 505. "te addition to 
bor there still rem east of the Mississippi, of orc 
; Choctaws, 3,323 : Chickasaws, 80; Creeks, 744; Potaw 
pee , 500; Weaws, 30; besides some entire remnant tri vp 
, ha 
in the * Choctaw Altianae? tae tok 1843, I find the gsr ta of alte 
nation rated at 12,690, instead of 15,177, as stated in the C 
sioner’s report. 
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