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Indian Tribes of Indiana and Illinois, 1822
Our table shows what tribes inhabit, or rather did once inhabit, these
states. The most of them have sold their lands and are either still lingering on
them, unwilling to take a last look over the fertile fields, which they once
called their own, and at the mounds which contain the bones of many generations
of their ancestors; or they are scattered, and roaming without a home in the
territories of strangers. Not many years since, we could point to the populous
villages of these Indians, and knew where to direct our efforts for their
benefit. Now we may ask the question " Where are they ?" and there is no one
among us who is able to give an answer. The most of them, however, are already
gone, or are going, beyond the Mississippi, to some spot selected, or to be
selected,1 for their future "permanent," residence.2
Descriptive Eloquence.
"This charming country," speaking of a part of Virginia, "belonged ta the
Indians; over these fields, and through these forests, their beloved forefathers
once, in careless gaiety, pursued, their sports and hunted their game;
This important change in the situation of these tribes is now in operation, and
till it shall be completed, nothing definite can be either said or done as to
their civilization or religious instruction. Very valuable information relating
to some of the tribes who have inhabited, and are still within the limits of
these states, I have recorded in the appendix,3 in hope that while it
answers the enquiries of the Government, it may come into use, when these
Indians shall have found, if they ever do find, an unmolested home.
| Indiana and Illinois |
17,000 |
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| Delawares, Munsees, Moheakun-nuks, and Nanticokes |
1,700 |
On White river, in Indiana, in 5 villages, in a
compass of 36 miles, This was their state in 1816, Since, their
lands have all been sold and these Indiana are, scattered, none can
tell where. |
| Pottawattamies |
500 |
Scattered in several villages among the
Pottawattamie |
| Menominees |
270 |
On Illinois River |
| Peorias, Kaskaskias and Cahokias |
30 |
Once inhabited a large part of Illinois and
Indiana.. In the war kindled against these tribes by the Sauks and
Foxes, in revenge for the death of their chief, Pontiac, those 3
tribes were nearly exterminated. Few of them now remain. About 100
of the Peorias are settled on Current River, west of the
Mississippi. Of the Kaskaskias, 30 only remain in Illinois. |
| Kickapoos |
400 |
About the center of Illinois. They have sold
all their lands and are about to remove over the Mississippi |
| Miamies, Weas and Eel River Indians |
1,400 |
At Mississippi about the center of Indiana, from
north to south. The Weas and Eel River Indians are different bands
of the Miami. |
| Sauks of the Mississippi |
4,500 |
On both sides of the Mississippi from the Illinois
River to the Wisconsin. Their hunting grounds north of Mandan |
| Foxes |
2,000 |
Mingled with the Souks in the same territory, |
| Ioways |
1,000 |
These Indians are mingled with the tribes last
mentioned, Their principal villages are on the Iowa and La Moines
Rivers the greater part west of the Mississippi |
| Kickapoos |
1,800 |
About this number of the tribe are on the
territories they have lately sold, or settling themselves on their
own new lands east or tho Great Osage |
| Southern Indians on the east side of the Mississippi (a)
65,122 |
Indians Census of the United States 1822
1. Appendix
U.
2. I cannot deny myself the
melancholy gratification of inserting, here
the following pertinent and touching
specimen of Descriptive Eloquence, written
above.
(a) The
Palachos, Eamuses and Kaloosas were the
ancient Possessors of Florida; all extinct
Notes About the Book:
Source: Report on Indians Taxed and Indians not Taxed in the United States, Except
Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890, Department of the Interior, Government
Printing Office, Washington DC., 1894
A
Report to the Secretary of War of the United
States on Indian Affairs, by Rev. Jedidiah
Morse, 1822, Printed by S. Converse
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and
then ocr'd. Minimal editing has been done, and readers can and should expect
some errors in the textual output. Several spellings have been used for the same
tribe of Indians.
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