134 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



the present count makes them 1,522 (1877). Are now living in a civilized way, with a 

 large proportion of their children attending school regularly. Their main depend- 

 ence is upon the lumber trade, cutting during the last winter over 5,000,000 feet of 

 logs, netting them $4 per M. — "VV. H. Jackson, 1877. 



PRESENT LOCATION AND NUMBERS. 



Menomonees at Green Bay Ageucy, Wisconsin. Eeside on their res- 

 ervation in Shawano County. In 1884, numbered 1,400; August 1, 1885, 

 1,308; slowly decreasing. Lumbermen and farmers; civilized; own 

 vast pine timber forests, valued at $3,000,000. 



POT-O-WAT-O-MIE;. 



[Pottawatomie : Laws of the United States — Pottawatamie and Pottawatomie: Indian 



Bureau, 1885.] 



Once a numerous tribe, now numbering about 2,700, reduced by small-pox and 

 whisky — recently removed from the State of Indiana to the western shores of the 



Missouri ; semi-civilized. 



Mr. Catlin was with them whilst visiting the Kickapoos, in Illinois, 

 in 1831, the year before they removed west of the Mississippi. 



237. On-saw-kie, the Sac; in the act of i^rayiug; his prayer written in characters 



on a maple stick. Painted in 1831. 



(Plate No. 189, page 100, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



238. Na-povr-sa, the Bear Travelling in the Night ; one of the most influential chiefs 



of the tribe. Painted in 1831. 



(Plate No. 190, page 100, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



239. Kee-se, ; a woman. Painted in 1831. 



(No plate.) 



ALGONKIN— POT-A-WAT-0-MIES. 



MR. CATLIN'S NOTES ON THE POTTAWATOMIE INDIANS. 



The remains of a tribe who were once very numerous and warlike, but reduced by 

 whisky and small-pox to their present number, which is not more than twenty-seven 

 hundred. This tribe may be said to be semi-civilized, inasmuch as they have so long 

 lived in contiguity with white people, with whom their blood is considerably mixed, 

 and whose modes and whose manners they have in many respects copied. From a 

 similarity of language, as well as of customs and personal appearance, there is no 

 doubt that they have formerly been a part of the great tribe of Chippeways or Ot-ta- 

 was, living neighbors and adjoining to them, on the north. This tribe live within 

 the State of Michigan, and there own a rich and very valuable tract of land; which> 

 like the Kickapoos, they are selling out to the Government, and about to remove to 

 the west bank of the Missouri, where a part of the tribe have already gone and set- 

 tled, in the vicinity of Fort Leavenworth. Of 1 his tribe I have painted the portraits 

 of On-saw-kie, No. 237, in the attitude of prayer, and Na-pow-sa (the Bear Travelling 

 in. the Night), No. 238, one of the principal chiefs of the tribe. These people have for 

 some time lived neighbors to, and somewhat under the influence of the Kickapoos ; 

 and very many of the tribe have become zealous disciples of the Kickapoo prophet, 

 using his prayers most devoutly, and in the manner that I have already described and 

 as seen in Nos. 237, 238.— G. C. 



