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The piankashaws, Kickapoos, Musquitons, and Ouiatanos, 

 are tribes on the branches of the Wabash and Illinois 

 rivers. They could raise, according' to Hutchins, one thou- 

 sand warriors. Other tribes of the Kickapoos reside at the 

 entrance of Lake Superior, and could raise four hundred 

 warriors. Another tribe inhabits with the Otutagamies and 

 Musquateys, between Michigan and the Mississippi, who 

 together had one thousand warriors. 



The Naudowesies live between Michigan and Lake Su- 

 perior, and have five hundred warriors. The Killistinoes on 

 Lake Superior, and have two hundred and fifty warriors. 

 Mingoes on the Scioto, and have fifty warriors Lezars 

 between the Wabash and the mouth of the Ohio. The 

 greater part of these Indians have taken up new places of 

 residence. They had three hundred warriors. Outimaes, 

 between Michigan and Lake Saint Clair. Warriors two 

 hundred. Winnebagoes inhabit about the Lake of the same 

 name, south of Green bay. Their village is situated on an 

 island near the end of the lake, and can raise about three 

 hundred warriors. Illinois tribe inhabit a village near Ca- 

 hokia river on the Mississippi, and can furnish two hundred 

 and sixty warriors. There are a number of other tribes, 

 towns and villages, north of the River Ohio, within the 

 boundaries of the United States ; especially in the extensive 

 country between the Illinois river and the Upper lakes. But 

 the deficiency of information is too great to attempt any 

 description of them. 



South of the Ohio, the Cherokee nation inhabit a tract of 

 country lying in the southern parts of Tennessee, and north- 

 ern parts of Georgia, being separated on the east from North 

 and South Carolina, by the Apalachian or Cherokee moun- 

 tains, and extending on the west, to Duck river, running into 

 the Tennessee. By a traet concluded between the United 

 States and the Cherokee nation, at Hopewell, in November, 

 1785, the boundary between the citizens of the United States, 

 and the country allotted to this nation for hunting ground 

 is particularly designated. The Chei-okees have been a 

 famous Indian nation, but is now on the decline. Frequent 



