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1842 Ann. Rep. Comm'r Off. Indian Aff. Sec'y Interior 377 (1842)

handle is hein.doi/annrepcom0005 and id is 1 raw text is: 377 [11 No. 10. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. WAR DEPARTMENT, Qffice Indian Affairs, November 16, 1842. SIR: There remain east of the Mississippi river the Chippewas and Otto- was of the lower peninsula of Michigan, in number some 5,000; the Chip. pewas of the upper peninsula of the same State, and occupying an extensive- country west of it, and south and west of Lake Superior, running across, Wisconsin Territory and the river Mississippi, whose number is unknown ;' the Meriomonies near Green Bay in Wisconsin Territory, reported to be! 2,464; the Oneidas at the same place; the New York Indians, numbering-! aout 3,300; the Wyandots in Ohio, of whom there 575 souls; the Miamies. in Indiana 661; from 50 to-250-Potwonie-(rthey are variously esti- mated), around the southern end of Eal- M.ichigan, who eluded the officers- charged with what was considered the final removal of these people in 1840; 1,000 to 1,200 Cherokees y-t rema in-inNo-h Cairlna,---Alabama, Geo'g a, and, Tennessee; some Creeks still exist in Alabama; from 50 to 250 Chickasaws. are in the State of Mississippi, and a few in Tennessee ; of the Choctaws, it is supposed that not fewer than 3,000 to 4,000 are still in Mississippi, and there is the remnant of the Seminole tribe in Florida. I do not refer to the Indians in New England, who will never be removed except as they may choose to emigrate themselves; nor to the Brothertown and Stockbridge tribes on Winnebago lake-the former of whom have been placed upon a *footing with our own citizens by act of Congress, and the latter have applied for the same privileges, which will probably be extended to them ;,-nor to the almost nominal band, that still lingers on the batiks of the Catawba, in South Carolina, if they have not recently become extinct. With the Me. nomonies and Oneidas of Green Bay alone, and possibly with the New York Indians at some distant day, wilj it be ever necessary for us to make treaties. of cession. With the several other tribes enumerated, we have concluded treaties by which we hold, divested of Indian right, all the land east of the Mississippi, that it can be desirable or useful to us to occupy. We have transplanted, or will transplant them to land chosen by ourselves; and I trust the day will never come, when they shall be asked to go further towards the setting sun, or to treat, unless it be on terms that shall be mutually agreeable, for common benefits, or to confer a gain upon the weaker and more unfor- tunate party. / Of the tribes in Iowa, the United Band of Chippewas, Ottowas, and Pot- tawatomies, who are on the Missouri river, the Winnebagoes on the Neutral Ground, and the Sioux north of it, are all that we shall at any time probably, and certainly for a long and indefinite period, desire. to treat with for land. Great inquietude on the part of the New York Indians, and dissatisfaction in the minds of many of our own benevolent citizens, who took a deep inter- est in their welfare, grew out of the treaty of January 15, 1838, which was

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