NO. 7 ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF AMERICA MOONEY 33 



SUMMARY OF RESULTS 



The totals for the several areas are brought together in the follow- 

 ing table : 



Early figure Late figure 



North Atlantic States 55,6oo 21,900 



South Atlantic States 52,200 2,170 



Gulf States 1 14400 62,700 



Central States 75.3oo 46,126 



The Plains 



Northern 100,800 50,477 



Southern _ 41,000 2,861 



The Columbia Region 88,800 I5,43i 



California 260,000 18,797 



Central Mountain Region 19,300 ii,S44 



New Mexico and Arizona 72,000 53,832 



Greenland 10,000 1 1,000 



Eastern Canada 54-200 27,000 



Central Canada 50,950 28,770 



British Columbia 85,800 25,588 



Alaska 72,600 28,310 



1,152,950 406,506 



Allowing for overlappings between the United States and Canada, 

 the following estimates of population in the several political divisions 

 concerned may be given : ^ 



Early figure Late figure 



United States Proper 849,000 266,000 



British America 221,000 101,000 



Alaska 73,ooo 28,000 



Greenland 10,000 11,000 



1,153,000 406,000 



The figures in the second coluinns of these two tables are of approx- 

 imately the same date, usually 1907. Those of the first column apply 

 to very different dates but agree in that they are intended to represent 

 the population just before it sufifered the first disturbance from 

 Europeans. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



(Compiled from notes accompanying Mr. Mooney's manuscript) 



Abbott, G. H. Coquille, etc.. Census and vocabulary with map, 1858. MS. 125. 



Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 

 Allinson, S. Fragmentary history of the New Jersey Indians. In N. J. Hist. 



Soc. Proc. 2d session IV, 1875 (1876?). 



' This summary was provided for by Mr. Mooney but before printing a con- 

 siderable alteration was found necessary. — J. R. S. 



