INDIAN TRIBES OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 
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Lewis and Clark's Estimate ■—1806 and 1S07. 
Names of Tribes. 
Corresponding names. 
Population. 
Wallah-Wallah... 
Wall ah-Wall ah.... 
2, 600 
1,000 
1,200 
3, OOO 
3, 000 
40) 
200 
240 
400 
2, 00') 
1,000 
1,000 
2, 400 
200 
2, 400 
1,500 
3,. c 00 
900 
2,600 
300 
600 
800 
8, 000 
1,000 
John Day’s river....... 
Des Chutes river...... 
Peluse........ 
Priest’s Rapids ________ 
Lower Yakima............ 
_do . ... .... 
Upper Yakima_________ 
Cascades, Upper Chenooks. 
Dalles .......... 
_do ..... 
Cat-sa-nim ___............ 
Okin-a-kanes ........ 
Hfi-high-e-nim-mo........ 
Sans Puelles............ 
Schwo-yel-pi....... 
Sar-lis-lo_, ____ 
Spokanes_________ 
_do......... 
Mick-suck-seal-tom .................................. 
Pend d’Oreilles........ 
Ho-pil-po _______.._... 
Flatheads__________ 
Tush-e-pah_...._......... 
Koo-tames__________ 
Chopunnish_____..._____ 
Nez Perces_..._______ 
Wille-wah ___...._____...... 
Grand Ronde........... 
Willet-pos___________ 
Wai-lat-pu___________ 
42,200 
Captain Wilkes's Estimate —1841. 
Names of Tribes. 
Population. 
150 
250 
100 
Okinakane _____....__________________ 
300 
Colville and Spokane_______________...._______ 
450 
Des Chutes, &c __________________________ 
300 
Wallah-Wallah... 
1,100 
Total population__.__......________ 
2,650 
The above furnishes a very incorrect statement even of the tribes that are given, ancl some of 
the most important are omitted altogether. No conclusion can be drawn from it whatever. A 
more general one is contained in Captain Wilkes’s pamphlet on Western America, as follows: 
Names of Tribes. 
Population. 
400 
3, 000 
2, 000 
2,200 
Nez Perces..... 
Wallah-Wallahs. 
Total population..... 
7,600 
Which is also much less than the actual number at that time. Yet more incorrect is the 
estimate of Lieutenants Warre and Vavasour, R. N., published in Martin’s “Hudson’s Bay 
Territories, &c.,” in 1849, though, as regards this part of the Territory, it is not so bad as the 
rest: 
