paid into the treasury of the United States, in of the purchases of the above land ; leaving still 152 CHAPTER XI. SALE OF LANDS BY THE INDIANS. THE following is a statement of land purchased by the United States from the Indians up to the year 1820: Total quantity, 191,778,536 acres. In payment for which, sums to the amount of 2,542,916 dollars have been appropriated. Of these lands 18,601,930 acres, have been vended by the States' Government, and there remain in their possession 173,176,606 acres. The sum of 22,229,180 dollars has actually been part due, (for which the land is a security) 22,000,657 dollars. The account, then, will stand thus: Amount and Value of Annuities to Indians 22,229,180 2,542,916 By Cash received on Sale of Lands 1,700,716 Ditto still due on ditto Expense of Surveys and Agency 22,000,657 Lands unsold, viz., 173, 176,606 Acres, at the lowest estimate, one dollar per acre 173,176,606 Balance of gain on the part of the United States in dealing with the Indians · 213,162,811 * The price fixed by Congress is two dollars per acre. How irresistibly, to say nothing of natural rights, do these transactions establish the claim of the Indians to protection and kindness from the United States ! The purchases of land from the Indians by the British Government do not exceed ten millions of acres; for 7,491,190 of which, the Indians receive goods annually amounting in value to 41551. Halifax currency, or 16,620 dollars. The British Government has not sold its lands, but, with the exception of a few hundred acres lately disposed of near Yorkin Upper Canada, has made gratuitous grants of them. Besides which, about 20,000 Indians annually receive from the British government, blankets, and presents of various kinds--so that while the Americans have gained so largely by their intercourse with the natives within their territories, the British are annually losers. But both are awfully deficient in using means to improve the condition of the Indians. 155 CHAPTER XII. NAMES OF THE DIFFERENT INDIAN NATIONS HITHER TO DISCOVERED. IN NORTH AMERICA, THE SITUATION OF THEIR COUNTRIES, WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR FIGHTING MEN. THE Choctaws or Flatheads, on the Molect 4,500 The Natches 150 The Chukesws, Mississippi 750 The Cherokees, South Carolina 2,500 The Chatabas, between North and South Carolina 150 The Peantias, a wandering tribe, both sides of the Mississippi 800 The Kasgresquios or Illinois 600 The Piankishaws 250 The Qurachtenons on the Wabash 400 The Kikapous 300 The Shawanese or Sciota 500 The Delawares, on the west of Ohio 300 The Miamis 350 The Upper Creeks back of Georgia The Middle Creeks, North Florida 4,000 The Lower Creeks, East Florida The Caocutas, on the East of the River Alibamous 1700 The Alibamous, West of the Alibamous 600 The Arkansas 2,000 West Side. South of the Mississipi 1,000 500 2,000 2,000 1,600 :600 1,000 27,550 3,000 1,800 2,500 1,500 1,500 3,000 500 500 400 250 350 Brought forward into the Mississipi South of Pecan's Bay tribes on Lakes Huron and Superior ditto 700 350 2,000 900 5,000 300 1,500 2,500 300 400 130 550 700 350 200 58,730 warriors, one-third old men, makes 78,306. Multiplying by six gives 469,836 souls, men, women, and children. * * The publishers think it necessary to state that the M.S. of the above Indian names was in an almost illegible hand; and the author being in America, they had no means of correcting it. |