Enclosure: Indian Populations in Louisiana District, 19 November 1804
Enclosure
Indian Populations in Louisiana District
Aperçu de la Population des differentes Tribus sauvages du District de La Louisiane
Nombre d’hommes portant armes | |
Arcansas | 130 |
Loup ou Delaouois | 100 |
chawnon | 100 |
Péorias | 50 |
Sakias | 500 |
Ayouas | 250 |
Renards | 450 |
Sioux | 12,000 |
Grands Ozages | 1200 |
Petits Ozages | 300 |
Cancés | 350 |
hotos | 120 |
missoury | 80 |
Panis | 500 |
Republique | 300 |
Loups | 400 |
Mahas | 300 |
Poncas | 250 |
Mandanne | 400 |
chayanne | 400 |
Ricaras | 500 |
Gros Ventre | 700 |
Padodos | 300 |
Laytanne qui bordent les Côte d’espagne, environs | 15000 |
34,680 |
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 145:25163); in a clerk’s hand.
In a letter of 7 Nov. to Gallatin, Chouteau also sent this Aperçu, or estimate, of the number of fighting men in Indian nations in upper Louisiana, as well as a survey of the annual amount of merchandise needed to trade with the largest tribes ( , 2:758-60).
Arcansas: the Quapaws. The chawnon were likely a group of Shawnees settled west of the Mississippi River. The group listed as the Gros Ventre were more likely the Hidatsas, as French traders had for some time confused the nations. The Padodos were probably a band of Apaches living on the plains, while Laytanne was a French name for the Comanches ( , 13:511-12, 515, 518, 564, 693, 903, 939; 15:223-4, 631, 634; Vol. 42:9–11).