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  WENTY-FIItST 
  REPORT 
  ON 
  THE 
  STATE 
  CABINET. 
  

  

  of 
  his 
  work 
  to 
  the 
  Mandans,* 
  with 
  numerous 
  engravings 
  illustra- 
  

   tive 
  of 
  their 
  domestic 
  life. 
  No 
  Indian 
  nation 
  has 
  been 
  portrayed 
  

   in 
  such 
  a 
  friendly 
  manner, 
  nor 
  from 
  an 
  equally 
  advantageous 
  

   stand-point. 
  It 
  has 
  tended 
  to 
  place 
  them 
  in 
  striking 
  contrast 
  with 
  

   contemporary 
  Indian 
  nations, 
  whilst 
  in 
  point 
  of 
  fact, 
  they 
  should 
  

   be 
  regarded 
  onty 
  as 
  an 
  excellent 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  advanced 
  class 
  

   of 
  village 
  Indians. 
  He 
  estimated 
  their 
  number 
  at 
  two 
  thousand 
  

   souls. 
  

  

  Catlin's 
  visit 
  marks 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  their 
  prosperity 
  as 
  a 
  nation. 
  In 
  

   the 
  summer 
  of 
  1838 
  the 
  small-pox 
  was 
  introduced 
  among 
  them 
  

   from 
  the 
  steamer 
  of 
  the 
  Americau 
  Fur 
  Company, 
  unintentionally, 
  

   no 
  doubt, 
  but 
  under 
  circumstances 
  not 
  exonerating 
  them 
  from 
  cen- 
  

   sure. 
  Nearly 
  the 
  whole 
  nation 
  perished 
  before 
  the 
  ravages 
  of 
  the 
  

   pestilence 
  ceased. 
  According 
  to 
  some 
  accounts, 
  thirty 
  or 
  forty 
  

   only 
  survived. 
  Those 
  who 
  did 
  escape, 
  at 
  once 
  abandoned 
  the 
  vil- 
  

   lage 
  and 
  occupied 
  a 
  small 
  summer 
  village 
  two 
  miles 
  above, 
  where 
  

   they 
  remained 
  for 
  a 
  time, 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  

   able 
  to 
  ascertain. 
  They 
  finally 
  removed 
  to 
  theMinnitaree 
  Village, 
  

   near 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  Fort 
  Berthold, 
  about 
  sixty-five 
  miles 
  further 
  up 
  

   the 
  river, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  northeast 
  side, 
  where 
  I 
  visited 
  them 
  in 
  1862. 
  

   They 
  then 
  numbered 
  about 
  two 
  hundred, 
  and 
  still 
  preserved 
  their 
  

   nationality 
  and 
  separate 
  government. 
  In 
  personal 
  appearance 
  

   they 
  are 
  superior 
  to 
  the 
  Indians 
  of 
  the 
  Missouri 
  river, 
  with 
  the 
  

   exception, 
  perhaps, 
  of 
  the 
  Blackfeet. 
  

  

  Their 
  successors, 
  in 
  the 
  old 
  village, 
  were 
  the 
  Arickarees 
  ; 
  some- 
  

   times 
  called 
  Rickaras, 
  Rickarees 
  and 
  Rees. 
  They 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  

   Pawnee 
  stock, 
  which 
  at 
  once 
  separates 
  them 
  from 
  all 
  traceable 
  

   connection 
  by 
  blood 
  or 
  dialect 
  with 
  the 
  Dakotas, 
  and 
  all 
  other 
  

   Indian 
  stocks 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Missouri. 
  Neither 
  the 
  Arickarees 
  nor 
  

   the 
  Pawnees 
  ever 
  lived 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Missouri 
  river, 
  as 
  their 
  tradi- 
  

   tions 
  affinn, 
  except 
  in 
  a 
  temporary 
  winter 
  village 
  constructed 
  for 
  

   nearness 
  of 
  access 
  to 
  game 
  and 
  fuel. 
  In 
  1804 
  the 
  Pawness 
  lived 
  

   upon 
  the 
  Platte 
  river 
  and 
  its 
  tributaries, 
  in 
  three 
  bands, 
  known 
  as 
  

   the 
  Grand 
  Pawnees, 
  the 
  Republican 
  Pawnees 
  and 
  the 
  Wolf 
  Paw- 
  

   nees, 
  and 
  were 
  estimated 
  by 
  Lewis 
  and 
  Clark 
  to 
  number 
  five 
  thou- 
  

   sand 
  souls. 
  f 
  Besides 
  these 
  bands 
  there 
  Was 
  a 
  fourth, 
  which 
  had 
  

   been 
  driven 
  south 
  by 
  the 
  Osages 
  to 
  the 
  Canadian 
  river, 
  where 
  they 
  

   joined 
  their 
  kindred 
  of 
  the 
  Pawnee 
  stock. 
  It 
  is 
  now 
  understood 
  

   that 
  the 
  Waccoes, 
  or 
  Huecos, 
  the 
  Witchitas, 
  Keechies 
  and 
  Towa- 
  

   ches 
  of 
  the 
  Canadian 
  and 
  Red 
  rivers 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  Pawnee 
  stock, 
  

  

  * 
  Nortfe 
  American 
  Indians. 
  Letters 
  XI 
  to 
  XXII, 
  V. 
  I. 
  f 
  Travels, 
  p. 
  ?6. 
  

  

  