A 



CONCISE ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



INDIAN NATIONS, 



WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, TO THE ROCKY 

 MOUNTAINS. 



Jjittle has been known of these nations until 

 very lately? The following information is prin- 

 cipally derived from the accounts given of them 

 by Captain Lewis, when on his tour to the western 

 ocean, communicated to the President of the 

 United States ; and by Dr. John Sibley, in his 

 communications, from Natchetoches, to the Sec- 

 retary of war. The advantages these gentlemen 

 possessed for obtaining knowledge of their names, 

 situations, numbers, and other circumstances 

 respecting them, have been better than those of 

 any others j and their accounts are undoubtedly 

 the best that can at present be obtained. 



The Osage nation has already been described* 

 The nation residing next to the Osage, on the 

 waters of the Missouri, is the Kanzas. Their 

 village is on the Kanzas river, about eighty leagues 

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