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mated the six or seven tribes going by that general name 

 as mustering 1,600 to 1,700 tents, at eight per tent, 

 13,000* 



Mr. Eowand, one of the oldest resident traders, esti- 

 mates the Blackfeet tribes as follows : — 



Blackfeet proper 300 



Piegans . . . 400 



Bloods . . 250 



Gros Ventres, or Fall Indians .... 400 



Circes . . . , . . . . 45 

 Cotones "l , 



Small Robes j fountain Tribes .... 250 

 At 8 persons per tent, 13,100. 1,645 tents. 



The Assinniboines are divided into Strongwood and 

 Plain Assinniboines, or Stonys. 



Mr. Harriet, in 1842, estimated the 



Strongwood Assinniboines . . . . at 80 tents = 640 

 Mr. Rowand, the Plain Assinniboines . . „ 300 „ = 2,400 



380 tents = 3,020 



The Strongwood Crees about Edmonton 



Mr. Rowand estimated at . . 400 tents, at 10 per tent = 4,000 

 Crees of the Plains . . . . 200 „ „ „ = 2,000 



6,000 



Colonel Lefroy f states that the aggregate of the tribes 

 inhabiting the plains on British territory was estimated in 

 1843 at not more than 23,400. Since that period they 

 have diminished in numbers, and some of the Blackfeet 

 bands have stationed themselves permanently on the 

 Missouri. In succeeding pages, recent estimates of the 

 Blackfeet tribes, and the limits of their hunting-grounds 

 are given. 



* Colonel Lefroy. 



f 11 On the probable number of the native Indian population of British 

 America," by Captain (now Colonel) J. IT. Lefroy, E.A. Canadian Journal, 

 vol. i. Old Series. 



