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Bouquet: A Comparison
of the Number of Fighting Men

(1764)

Estimates of Colonel Bouquet, 1764, In: "A Comparison of the Number of Fighting Men. In the Principal Northern and Western Tribes of Indians in the United States and Canada, as estimated at various Periods from 1736 to 1812," Schoolcraft, Information, Vol. III, p. 559.

p. 559.

(page 559)

Estimate of Colonel Bouquet, 1764.

TRIBES.		PLACE OF RESIDENCE.	WARRIORS.
Conawaghrunas		Near the Falls of St. Louis	200
Nipissins Algonquins	}	Living towards the heads of the ottawa river	400 300
Six Nations		On the frontiers of New York, &c	1550
Wiandots		Near Lake Erie	300
Chipwas Ottatwas	}	Near the lakes Superior and Michigan	5000 900
Messesagues, or River Indians		Being wandering tribes, on the lakes Huron and Superior	2000
Powtewatamis		Near St. Joseph's and Detroit	350
Les Puans Folle avoine, or Wild-Oat Indians	}	Near Puan's Bay	700
Mechecouakis Sakis Mascoutens	}	South of Puan's Bay	250 400 500
Ouisconsins		On a river of that name, fallng into Mississippi on the east side	550
Christinaux Assinaboes, or Assinipouals	}	Far north, near the lakes of the same name	3000 1500
Sioux of the Meadows Sioux of the Woods	}	Towards the heads of Mississippi	2500 1800
Miamis		Upon the river of that name, falling into Lake Erie	350
Delawares (les Loups)		On the Ohio	600
Shawnesse		On Scioto	500
Kickapoos Ouachtenons Peanquichas	}	On the Ouabache	300 400 250
Kaskasquias, or Illinois in general		On the Illinois river	600
Pianria*			800

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* French soubriquets.

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Data are introduced by Col. Bouquet to denote that the Indian inhabitants of North America are in the proportion of five persons to one fighting man, which gives a total of 283,000 (p. 71) as the Indian population of the old colonies.

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