Complex sentence: The only U.S. Government mention of the Tunica from 1803 to 1938 was made in 1806 by an Indian Commissioner for Louisiana who remarked that the Tunica only numbered about 25 men, lived in Avoyelles Parish and made their livings by occasionally hiring out as boatmen.
Split into simpler sentences: The only U.S. Government mention of the Tunica from 1803 to 1938 was made in 1806 by an Indian Commissioner for Louisiana. He noted that the Tunica only numbered about 25 men, lived in Avoyelles Parish, and made their livings by occasionally hiring out as boatmen.