The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-11-22
indian Population OF shs Early
Days. @s

The most remarkable group Of 10.
dian families ever discovered ia this
country rnled the lend f:cHa :hs Platte
aud Missouri rivers on the west 70
Lake Superior and Lake Michigan on
the east; from the confluence Of the
Missouri and Mississippi rivers on
the south to the Lake Of the Woods
and what is Low the Canadian border
on the north. Within this area,
which amounted to nearly 10000
square miles, or one-ninth Of the totpl
area Of the United States, as it was in
1903, there were living, SO far as
white men will ever know, about $780,
600 Indians.
| Census-tsk, r. were then unknown.
and the figures can be estimated only
from auoient mem orenda and tradi-
tions of the Indians themselves. :,
So swift are the mutations of Time,
though there are no" living in the
same area, backbone Of great repub-
lie, IL, ,000,0 white men, women and
children. OF the 100000 Indians,
lords of'the land $50 years ago, but
4s, 600 are to be found in this SEQ.
| tion. = i.
We have been accustomed through
past historical errors to think Of the
Iroquois Of the East, the Semincles
Of the Southeast, end .hs Paoblos Of
the Southwest as the original domi.:
naut Indian tribes os., the country,
but either from point OF numbers d:
point of governing strength, they did
not compare with the Asainibois,
Biioxis, Grows, Dakotas, Iowas, Man
dams Ogalalaa. .Omahae, Otoes, Pom
cas-, Tetons, Winnebagoss. Z. ;.<..@: 3. !. !.
These were the greas families Of the
Sioux or Siouan race. Second in inn;
portance TO these were che Arapahoea.
Blsckfeet, Cheyennes, Chippewas, II
linies, Kaskaskiae, Kiekapoos, Otta.
was. Piegens, Pottawattomies, Sass
and Foxes. They were of the family:
Of the Algonquins: or Algonkians. s5$s. s$:s. B
! The third family ofimportanoe, and
Che first to be extermipeted In the
many family wars, was composed Of
the MohaWks, Oneidas, Onondagas,
Cayugas, Seneoas, Tusuaroras. They:
we're Of the Iroquois family. " ,,E:.. i !.
Many more tribes belonged 20 these
three great families, but tsmost Of those
not naried never settled In the Missis-
sippi River Of Missouri River valleys,
where the Indian rose TO his greatest:
power, where his fercest. battles we're
waged with the white man, aud where
helmet his final racial ruin. ,:3; q: 81 Il:
Re: le: :nseanaa :, a The; Ahnnk;:o :of S Noya
Scotia, where Algonq 80 8 were g,eI the
Passamaquoddi, i Of Maine, and the,
PoWhaatan tribe Of Virgins. \ 7
The CataWbas, of North and Sonsh
Carolina, were of the Sioux family. Id
we're also the Tutslos of The Roanoke
River:of Virginia. The Cayugas, Il the 81
al5Ghernkaaa +: th 8 q t,nsid
we're all 5of the 8Iroquois, but flsdd Had
only q small pars ID ths, s,n,s,akiag 5off
Iruqaois hissi6ry WON'T of
Lake bziehigsn.
l$ By hejlast government csnsus, our g1as
|yiySrs oe alls thssa. .familiss nun nun lb5ered
as fsllova; 81 81 Il 81 SIS 81 siSS
Total number ndiana ID ;s}SI Ssss$ 81.
/. original osthWeat 900
Lsnd owned By them, acres. ~ ,s0a, 4 a16,I
Total Indians 81. sssva
lions: \, ! Il: zZ.l
yon.saNx s. j paying 4 II ndians ID m N
y 4 1 IL: 500 ..s; 3.
Indians id public sckoola 500
Indian sr,al Il oontta school GOO
5 5By careful esti ss 81 shs eslhinosl
!logials it ii "a determiiinis,a that within
anothe 4 century there viii noss bsI
i within the cent Inss 3of Che Tinted
States DO Hthia sonl sd Sd si1g ia l paTss]
:bloodsd daaoead ofs one oS thss
familie thas osiigsi; finally ruled t,a il ibsss1
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