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VIEWS OF LOUISIANA. 
KNISTENOOS, 
Descendants of the Chippoways—on the head of the Assiiie 
boin, thence towards the Suskashawin. They might be induced 
to trade at an establishment on the Missouri, at the mouth of the 
Yeliow Stone river. 
Indians south of the Missouri and Arkansas . 
AYUTAN BANDS, OR SNAKE INDIANS, 
A very numerous race, who have as yet but little intercourse 
■with the whites. They are badly armed, and much at the mercy 
of the other Indians, by whom they are made slaves when taken 
prisoners. They are also called Camanches. They wander about 
the heads of the Platte, and in the vast plains bordering on New 
Mexico and New Spain, south of the Arkansas ; and are divided 
into many bands. They possess an immense number of horses, 
asses, and mules. 
CROW INDIANS, 
On the Yellow Stone, and heads of the Missouri j they are 
divided into a number of small bands. 
PAUNCH INDIANS 
Wander along the Rocky mountains, and sometimes venture 
across. Probably a band of the Snake Indians. The Padoncas , 
Kioways , &c. are probably bands of nations already enumerated $ 
inhabit an arid, unproductive country. 
CADDOQUIS. 
Thirty-five miles west of the main branch of Red river, 120 
miles by land above Natchitoches, formerly lived 375 miles high¬ 
er up, at a beautiful prairie, which has a lake of clear water. The 
nation is small, but the warriors greatly celebrated for their 
courage, and as much respected by their neighbours, as the 
• Knights of Malta were in Europe. 
YATTASCES. 
Fifty miles above Natchitoches on Bayou Pierre, there is a 
small French settlement. They are but a remnant, but live in a 
fixed village , ' . 
