Following are the marginal notes on the MAP of the Indian Nations and Tribes of the Territory of Washington, and of the Territory of Nebraska west of the mouth of the Yellowstone. Sent to the Hon. George W. Manypenny, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with letter of this date. Isaac I. Stevens,
Governor and Supt. Indian Affairs. Olympia, Washington Territory, April 30, 1857. Tabular Statement of the Indians East of the Cascade Mountains, etc. | Name and Date of Treaties | Names of Tribes | Population. | Reservations. | Temporary Encampments. | | Treaty with the Yakima Nation concluded at Walla Walla, June, 1855. | Pisquouse.
Yakimas.
Pshawm wappam. | 600
700
500 | Simcoe and the adjoining country and forks of the We-nat-scha-pan, or Pisquouse River. | About 150 of these tribes are encamped in the vicinity of Simcoe River. | | Bands on Columbia.
Klikitats.
Palouses. | 100
500
600 | | Opposite the Dalles, Oregon.
White Salmon River. | | | 3900 | | | | Walla Walla treaty, concluded June, 1855. | Nez Perces. | 3300 | On the Snake and Clearwater Rivers. | | | Treaty with the Flathead Nation, concluded June, 1855. | Flatheads.
Upper Pend Oreilles.
Kootenays. | 500
700
500 | Flathead River. | | | | 1700 | | | | Tribes with whom no treaties have been made. | Coeur d’Alenes.
Lower Pend Oreilles.
Colvilles.
Okinakanes.
Spokanes. |
450
450
500
600
1100 | | | | | 3100 | | | | Total number of Indians east of the Cascade Mountains | 12,000 | | Treaties have been made with | 8,900 | | Number with whom treaties have not been made | 3,100 | | Largest number held on temporary reservations | 3,000 | Written on upper central margin in Governor Stevens’s handwriting:— | Total number of Indians west of the Cascade Mountains | 9,712 | | Total number of Indians east of the Cascade Mountains | 12,000 | | Total number of Indians, Territory of Washington | 21,712 | | Treaties have been made with | 17,497 | | Treaties remain to be made with | 4,215 | Tabular Statement of the Indians West of the Cascade Mountains, showing Tribes, Population, Parties to the several Treaties, Reservations provided for in the Treaties, and Temporary Encampments. | Name and Date of Treaties | Names of Tribes | Population. | Reservations. | Temporary Encampments. | | Treaty of Medicine Creek, December 26, 1854 | Quaks-na-mish,
Nisqually,
Puy-all-up. | 1200 | Klah-che-min Island,
Near mouth of Nisqually River.
Near mouth of Puy-all-up River. | Klah-che-min Island.
Fox Island. | | Treaty of Point Elliott,, January 22, 1855. | Duwamish,,
Suquamish,
and allied tribes.. | 942 | Noo-soh-te-um,near Port Madison, and at Muckleshoot. | Dunginess Point.
Fort Kitsap. | | Sno-qual-moo,
Sno-ho-mish,
and allied tribes.. | 1700 | Te-wilt-sch-da, north side Sno-ho-mish River. | Skagit Head, on Whitby Island. | | Skagits and
and allied tribes. | 1300 | S.E. end Perry (or Fidalgo) Island. | | | Lummi,
Nook-Sahk,
Sa-mish. | 1050 | Chah-choo-sa Island, at mouth of Lummi River. | Penn’s Cove, on Whitby Island. | | | 4992 | | | | Treaty of Point-No-Point, January 25, 1855. | Clallams,
Skokomish,
Chem-a-kum. | 926
290
100 | Head of Hood’s
Canal. | Penn’s Cove, on Whitby Island. | | | 1316 | | | | Treaty of Neah Bay, January 31, 1855. | Ma-kahs. | 596 | Cape Flattery. | | | Treaty of Olympia. | Quinaiult,
Kwilleyute. | 493 | Reservation to be selected by the President.
Quinaiult River and land set apart. | | | Tribes with whom treaties have not been made. | Lower Chehalis.
Upper Chehalis. |
217
216 | |
S.S. Ford’s on the Chehalis River. | | Cowlitz and Tia-tin-a-pan.
Lower Chinooks.
Upper Chinooks. |
240
112
330 | | Near Cowlitz Landing.
Removed to White Salmon.
Vancouver and Cascades. | | | 1115 | | | | Total number of Indians west of Cascade Mountains | 9712 | | Number with whom treaties have been made | 8597 | | Number with whom treaties have yet to be made | 1115 | | Largest number held on temporary reservations | 5686 | All have been assisted during the war. The parties to the treaties of Neah Bay and Olympia, the Lower Chehalis and Lower Chinooks, have required but little assistance at the hands of the Department. Notes of the Indians of the Territory of Nebraska between the Rocky Mountains and Mouth of the Yellowstone. The Blackfoot Nation are in four tribes, viz., Piegans, Bloods, Blackfeet, Gros Ventres, and number 11,500 souls. The map shows the hunting-grounds, secured exclusively to the Blackfeet in the treaty, at the mouth of the Judith, concluded October 17, 1855; the hunting-ground common to the Blackfeet and Western Indians, the Blackfeet and Assiniboines; the western and southern boundaries of the Assiniboine country; and the western boundary of the Crow country. The Western Indians, Flatheads, Pend Oreilles, and a portion of the Kootenays, generally make two hunts a year east of the Rocky Mountains, and they depend for their lodges, parfleches, apechinos, and much of their meat upon these hunts. They get some of their supplies by trade with the Blackfeet. The Indians of the western tribes, as the Spokanes and Coeur d’Alenes, “go to buffalo,” but not in as large numbers or with as much regularity as the preceding. The Nez Perces generally have a large camp—over one hundred lodges—either on the common hunting-grounds or in the Crow country. Their hunters always pass one winter, and sometimes two winters, in succession, east of the mountains before they return to their own country. Census of the Blackfoot Nation. | Tribes. | Number of Lodges. | Population. | | Piegans. | 340 | 3,150 | | Bloods. | 290 | 2,690 | | Blackfeet. | 290 | 2,690 | | Gros Ventres. | 360 | 2,970 | | 1280 | 11,500 |
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