INDIAN POPULATION OF BRITISH AMERICA. 159 



Name of tribe. Numbers 



Assinniboine .... 8900 



Blackfeet 9530 



Bloods 1612 



Crees 800 



Sioux (Ihanktonwanna) . . 4000 

 Gros Ventres .... 2500 



Extending from the Missouri into 



Rupert's Land. 

 Nebraska. 

 Upper Missouri. 

 Upper Missouri. 

 Dakotah territory. 

 Between the Missouri and the 



Saskatchewan. 



The subjoined enumeration of Indian tribes inhabiting 

 British North America, is from a paper " On the probable 

 number of the Native Indian Population of British 

 America," by Colonel Lefroy, referred to on page 152 :— 



Chipewyan tribes — namely: Chipewyans proper, Dogribs, 

 Hare or Slave Indians, Yellow Knives, Beaver Indians, 



Da-ha-dumies and Carriers ...... 7,575 



Northern Indians of the Kutchin stock .... 6,082 



Indians of the Plains (Blackfeet, Assinniboines, &c.) . 23,400 



Chipeways (Ojibways) and Crees, exclusive of the above . 8,675 



Indians of the Seaboard and Islands of the Pacific . . 63,840 



Indians of New Caledonia — Interior .... 2,000 



Indians of Canada 13,000 



124,518 



The number of Indians frequenting the establishments 

 of the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1856, are thus classified 

 in the Blue Book * : — 



Thickwood Indians on the east side of the Hocky Mountains . 35,000 



The Plain Tribes (Blackfeet, &c.) 25,000 



The Esquimaux 4,000 



Indians settled in Canada 3,000 



Indians in British Oregon and on the north-west coast . . 80,000 



Total Indians 147,000 



The census of the Indian tribes of the United States 

 with whom intercourse was kept up by agents in the year 



* Report from the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company. 



