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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8o 



1, 600 Creeks were slaughtered within a few months in the Creek 

 war of 181 3-4, besides those who must have died from starvation 

 and hardship. It is claimed that the Cherokee removal in 1839 cost 

 the lives of 4,000 Indians, while the disturbances in the Indian Ter- 

 ritory during the Civil War cost thousands more. The apparent 

 increase in the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory since then 

 is almost entirely from white intermixture. The ordinary figures 

 for these five tribes cannot be taken as ethnologically correct, as 

 they include as " Indians " fully 10,000 claimants with so little, if 

 an}', of Indian blood as to have been repudiated by the Indian tribal 

 courts while those courts were still in existence. Other thousands 

 are still clamoring for admission to land and money privileges. Over 

 7,000 of these repudiated claimants are now upon the Cherokee roll 

 together with some 1,600 adopted Shawnee and Delawares not sepa- 

 rately noted. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt but that both 

 Cherokee and Choctaw have increased within the historic period, 

 although, as has been said, this is due largely to white intermixture, 

 as also to absorption of remnant tribes. 



Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee 1650 



Cherokee 22,000 



1,500 

 18,000 

 2,000 

 2,000 



Yuchi 



Creek confederacy "I 



Seminole (later offshoot from Creeks) J 



Yamasee 



Mobile \ 



Tohome j 



Florida 



Apalachee, etc 7,000 



Potano 3,000 



Yustaga 1,000 



Timucua, etc 8,000 



Tocobaga 1,000 



Caloosa 3,ooo 



Ais, Tegesta, etc 1,000 



Mississippi 



Chickasaw 8,000 



Choctaw 15,000 



Natchez 4.500 



Tunica 



Yazoo 

 Koroa 

 Ofogoula 



.Lower Yazoo River 2,000 



1907 

 25,00(1 

 700 



r 11,000 ■ 

 \ 2,200 



Extinct 

 Extin ct 



Extinct 

 Extinct 



Extinct 

 Extinct 

 Extinct 

 Extinct 

 Extinct 



5,000 

 18,000 

 25 (?) 

 '50 (?) 

 Extinct 

 Extinct 

 Extinct 



Amount carried forward 99,000 



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