434 
INDIAN TRIBES OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 
cost of establishing agencie , and finally of the yearly expense of maintaining them. It is be¬ 
lieved that the plan suggested will prove efficient, and that the expense is but trifling, compared 
with the extent of the country to be purchased ; the number and situation of the tribes occupying 
it, and, above all, of the advantage to be secured to the Territory in the quiet and effectual set¬ 
tlement of perspective difficulties. No plan, however well devised, can be successful without 
the concurrence of the citizens; and in making these suggestions, the advice of men possessed of 
experience in Indian relations has been obtained. 
GEORGE GIBBS. 
Capt. George B. McClellan, 
Commanding Western Division N. P. Railroad Exploration. 
I have examined the foregoing report, and fully approve of Mr. Gibbs’s views as therein ex¬ 
pressed, and would respectfully recommend that they be adopted. 
george b. McClellan, 
Lieutenant Engineers and Brevet Captain Commanding , Spc., fyc. 
The estimates, as they relate to the Indian service solely, and as they are not approved by 
me, are not submitted. The Nez Perces are almost exclusively in Washington Territory; and 
being closely affiliated with the other tribes of the Territory, accompanying them always in their 
annual hunt, they should be attached to the Washington superintendency. There should be three 
agencies in the Territory—the eastern, central, and western agencies—for reasons set forth in 
my reports to the Indian bureau, and which have been approved both by the department and by 
Congress. By a law of Congress it is made the duty of the officers of the Indian department to 
make all treaties with Indians. Hence, the proper commissioners will be the Indian superin¬ 
tendent and his agents. There are minor points which are not approved; but the report, gener¬ 
ally, is submitted as one of ability, and as exceedingly creditable to its author. 
ISAAC I. STEVENS, 
Governor of Washington Territory. 
Census of various Indian tribes living on or near Puget Sound , N. W. America , taken by W. F. 
Tolmie in the autumn of 1844. 
Names of tribes. 
Men. 
Women. 
Boys. 
Girls. 
Slaves. 
Total population. 
Horses. 
Canoes. 
Guns. 
Remarks. 
Stak-ta-misli. 
62 
62 
39 
21 
23 
207 
89 
27 
13 
Between Olympia and Na 
Squaks’na-mish. 
33 
44 
28 
25 
4 
135 
5 
17 
7 
wau-kum river. 
29 
23 
7 
30 
3 
92 
14 
7 
Squalli-a-misk.. 
138 
162 
75 
66 
30 
471 
190 
92 
48 
Pu-yal-lup-a-misk. 
69 
81 
37 
33 
7 
207 
34 
22 
34 
28 
7 
118 
34 
14 
Su-qua-mish. 
158 
102 
113 
97 
64 
525 
5 
160 
93 
102 
100 
61 
59 
322 
61 
28 
122 
153 
65 
25 
8 
373 
36 
27 
78 
37 
47 
22 
11 
195 
36 
8 
65 
57 
52 
47 
23 
244 
60 
15 
2, 689 
