Identifier: annualreportofbu219smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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n. These are the only Winnel)ago now in the wild-ricedistrict. Of the numerous Indians of this tribe near the Tomah Indianschool in Monroe county, Wisconsin, the school superintendent, underdate of August 25, 1898, wrote: The Winnebago Indians here arenearly all full-bloods, and they are about as far from civilization asthey were fifty years ago. The Winnebago in a winter villagenear Elroy, Juneau county, Wisconsin, in the winter of 1898-99, saidthat they now gather annualljdarge quantities of wild rice in the sloughsof the Mississippi at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and also on the Iowa sideof the stream. Ihe following estimates of W^innebago population have been made. i;Sehoolcraft, Indian Tribes, vol. ill, p. 277.= Ibid.,vol.i,p.277. 3Hoffman, The Menomini Indians, op.cit., p.205. Relations des J&uites, 1058, p. 21. ^See C. C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States, in the Eighteenth Annual Report ofthe Bureau of Ameriean Ethnology, part 2.Indian Aflairs Report, 1898, p.399.
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JENKS) THE MASKOTIN 1053 Pike reported thiit in isoti tliere were 450 warriors, 500 women, and1,000 children—a total population of 1.950 in the seven Winnebagovillages. In 1812 it was said that there were 700 warriors, 1,000women, and 1,800 children, or a total of 2,800, while in 1820 therewere 900 warriors, 1,300 women, and 3,(500 children, a total of 5,800.*Probably 2.000 souls is a very conservati\-e estimate of the number ofIndians of this tribe who used wild rice during the period with whichthis memoir deals. The Potawatomi It will be remembered that the Potawatomi (Potewatmik) are mem-bers of the great Algonquian stock, which comprised also the Ojibwaand Ottawa, and which split into three sections at 8ault Ste Marie. Thepresent Indians, the ••Potta-wat-um-ees, or Those-who-make-or-keep-a-fire. came southward along the west shore of Green bay andLake Michigan after the separation alluded to. In 1658 they werereported to be the nearest tribe to the settlement of St )Michel n

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