NUMBER OF INDIANS VISITING DIFFERENT POSTS. 151 



Locality. Number. 



Shoal Lake . 200 



White Dog 100 



Fort Alexander 300 



Lac de Bonnet ....... 50 



Fort a la Corne . 300 



Cumberland House 250 



The Pas 300 



Fort Pelly 800 



FortEllice . . . . . . . .500 



Qu'appelle Lakes 250 



Shoal River ........ 150 



Touchwood Hills 300 



Egg Lake 200 



Manitobah House 200 



On the North. Branch of the Saskatchewan, where the 

 Prairie Indians assemble, the following enumeration is 

 given in the Blue Book : — 



Locality. No. of Indians. 



Edmonton 7,500 



Carlton. . 5,000 



Fort Pitt 7,000 



Rocky Mountain House 6,000 



This census may approximate to the actual number of 

 Indians visiting a particular Post, yet there is strong 

 reason to suppose that the same individuals are to a large 

 extent enumerated twice if not thrice. 



The Plain or Prairie Indians belong to the following 

 principal tribes : — 



Blackfeet, Crees, 



Bloodies, Assinniboines, 



Piegans, Sioux. 

 Fall Indians, or Gros Ventres, 



The Wood Indians of the Saskatchewan Valley belong 

 to the great family of Crees and Ojibways. The Sioux, 

 Blackfeet, Bloodies, and Piegans are Dakotahs. 



Mr. Harriet, a chief-factor of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany, who had passed his life among the Blackfeet, esti- 



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