THE INDIANS IN 1832. 



[From the Book of the Indiana of North America — by Samuel J. Drake. Boston, 1832.] 



A table of the principal tribes. 



AbenaMes, near Three Rivers, in Canada; in number about 150, in 1780; in 1689, about 



•200. 

 AbsoroTcas, or Crow Indians, on tlie Missouri, near tlie Rocky Mountains. 

 Adirondaks, on the St. Lawrence; numerous in 1607; in 1786, about 100. 

 Ajoues, south of the Missouri, aud north of the Padoucas; 1,100 in 1760. 

 Amalistes, fGrmerly on the St. Lawrence; about 500 in 1760. 

 Apalachicolas, on the river of that name ; in 1835, about 340 ; have agreed to emigrate ; 



about 260 have gone west of the Mississippi. 

 Arrapahas, now about 4,000, about the sources of the Kansas River. 

 Assinnaboins, now about 1,000, on Ottowa River ; reduced by the Sioux. 

 Attikamegues, in north of Canada; destroyed by disease in 1670. 

 Augliquagas, on the east branch of the Susquehannah River; 150 in 1768. 



Bedies, on Trinity River, about 60 miles southward of Nacogdoches ; 100. 

 Big Devil Indians, Yoaktons of the Plains, 2,500; heads of the Red River. 

 Blackfeet, various warlike bands about the sources of the Missouri, and in the region 



of the Rocky Mountains; estimated in 1834 at 30,000. 

 Blanches, or Bearded Indians, white Indians on upper southern branches Missouri ; 



1,500 in 1760. 

 Br other ions, in New York, near Oneida Lake; now (1836) supposed to number 350. 



Caddoes, in 1717, a powerful nation on Red River; now reckoned at 800. 

 Caiwas, near the heads of the Arkansas; neither brave nor generous. 

 Camanches, or Comanches, a warlike and numerous race on the confines of Texas. 

 Catawbas, on Catawba River, in South Carolina ; had long wars with the Iroquois ; 



150 warriors in 1764. 

 Caughneivagas, tribes of praying Indians, in several places. 



Cherokees, Carolina and Tennessee ; 12,000 in 1812; 9,000 have agreed to emigrate. 

 Chiens, near the source of Chien River ; 200 in 1820. 



Chikahominies, on Matapony River, in Virginia, in 1561 ; but 3 or 4 in 1790. 

 Chikasaws, between the head branches of Mobile River in 1780 ; once said to have been 



10,000; in 1763, about 250 ; now vastly increased; in 1835, 5,600 agreed to emigrate. 

 Chikamaugas, on the Tennessee, 90 miles below the Cherokees; many years since 



broken from them, under the chief, Dragomono. 

 Chillukittequaus, next below the Narrows on the Columbia; 1,400, in 32 lodges. 

 Chimnahpum, at Lewis's River, N. W. side of the Columbia ; 1800, in 42 lodges. 

 Chinnooks, north side of Columbia River ; 400, in 28 lodges. 

 Chippewas, many formidable tribes about the great lakes. — See Ojibwas. 

 Choktaus, formerly of Carblina; about 15,000 in 1812; now on a government grant of 



15,000,000 acres on the north side Red River, and about 18,000. 

 Chopunnishes, on the Kobskooskee, 2,000; and on Lewis's River, below Kooskooskee, 



to the Columbia, 2,300; in all, in 1808, 73 ]odges. 

 Clakstars, beyond the Rocky Mountains ; 1,200, in 28 lodges. 

 Clatsops, below mouth Columbia, about Point Adams ; 200, in 14 lodges. 

 Cohakies, nearly destroyed by the Saques and Foxes, in the time of Pontiak ; in 1800, 



a few wanderers near Winn ebago Lake. 

 Comanches. See Camanches. 



Conbies, near the east branch of the Susquehannah; about 40 in 1780. 

 Congarees, on the Congaree River in South Carolina. 

 Copper Indians, far in the north, about Coppermine River; numerous. 

 Corees, a tribe of North Carolina. 



Creeks, formerly over a vast country from near the Gulf of Mexico, northeast. 

 Crees, north of the MiasQuri, and west of the Mississippi ; 3,000 in 1834. 



