NO. 



ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF AMERICA MOONEY 



Upper Yazoo River 1,200 



1,000 



Mississippi — Continued 1650 



Amount brought forward 99,000 



Chakchiuma 



Ibit.oupa 



Taposa 



Tiou 



Biloxi 



Pascagoula 



Moctobi J 

 Arkansas 



Quapaw or Arkansa 2,500 



Louisiana (excluding Caddo tribes) 



Houma ^ 1,000 



Chitimacha 3,000 



Atakapa 1,500 



Acolapissa ( including Tangipahoa) 1,500 



Bayogoula 1 



Mugulasha V 1,500 



QuinipissaJ 



Chawasha 1 



Washa M " les Gens de la Fourche "Y 1,400 



Opelousa J 



Taensa, etc 800 



1907 

 61,975 



Extinct 



Extinct 



290 



350 

 60 (?) 



25_(?) 



Extinct 

 Extinct 



Extinct 

 Extinct 



114,400 62,700 



NOTE 



In Bulletins 43 and 73 (Bur. Amer. Ethnol., 191 1, 1922) I gave the following 

 estimates of population of tribes considered by Mooney in this section, the 

 supposed date being near 1700, or about fifty years later than that selected by 

 Mooney. For purposes of comparison I repeat Mooney's estimates in the 

 second column. 



Swanton Mooney 



Creek Confederacy 7,000 18,000 



Mobile and Tohome 1,225 2,000 



Chickasaw 3,000-3,500 8,000 



Choctaw 15,000 15,000 



Natchez 3,500 4,500 



Tunica, Yazoo, Koroa, and Ofogoula 2,450 2,000 



Chakchiuma, Ibitoupa, and Taposa (Mooney places the 



Tiou here but I put it with the Natchez) 750 1,200 



Amount carried forward 32,925-33,425 50,700 



* Houma : The so-called Houma of today include remnants of most of the 

 Louisiana coast tribes, in all degrees of mixture, Indian, white and negro. 

 The state census recognizes about 350 as Indian. They claim over 800 of all 

 mixtures and intermarriages. — J. R. S. 



" There has been a confusion here between two tribes, one called Okelousa, 

 which was in fact one of " les Gens de la Fourche," the other the Opelousa 

 living farther west. Both were, however, comparatively insignificant. — J. R. S. 



