15235 This only as a note, not knowing any thing of these Nations except the name. Lake Erie.-The Detroit. The Hurons at present are two hundred men, bearing arms. They mark the Tortoise, the Bear and the The Pouteouatamis have a village there of one hundred the Golden Carp, the Frog, the Crab, the The Outawas there have two villages, composed one of the tribe of Sinagos; the other of Kiskakous, and may count two hundred warriors. They have the same devices as those of Missilimakinak; that is to say, the Bear and Black Squirrel. Lake St. Clair, which leads to Lake Huron. At the end of the Little Lake St. Clair, there is a small village of Mississagués, which numbers sixty men. They have the same devices as the Mississagués of Manitouatin and of Lake Ontario; that is to say, a Crane. Lake Huron. I have spoken before of the Mississagués who are to the North of this Lake. I do not know, on the South side, but the Outawas, who have at Saguinan a village of eighty men, and for device the Bear and Squirrel. 200 180 200 60 80 15955 • Note in Orig. Instead of 180, only 100 men must be counted. Remark. All the Northern Nations have this in common; that a man who goes to war denotes himself as much by the device of his wife's tribe as by that of his own, and never marries a woman who carries a similar device to his. If time permitted, you would, Sir, have been better satisfied with my researches. I would have written to the Interpreters of the Posts, who would have furnished me with more certain information than that I could obtain from the Voyageurs whom I questioned. I am engaged at the history of the Scioux, which you have asked from Monsieur de Linerot. Missilimakinak. PRESENT STATE OF THE NORTHERN INDIANS IN THE DEPART OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON BART., COMPREHENDED UNDER THE SIX NATIONS AND OTTAWA CONFEDERACIES, ETC., CONTAINING THE NAMES, NUMBERS AND SCITUATION OF EACH NATION, WITH REMARKS. NOV. 18, 1763. [Lond. Doc. XXXVI.] SIX NATION CONFEDERACY, COMPREHENDING THAT OF CANADA, OHIO. &c. Remarks Five Nations, the Oneidas giving them land and they now enjoy all priviledges with the rest. Of the Senecas, two villages are still in our interest, vizt. Kanadasero and Kanaderagey, the rest have joined the Western Nations. These are at peace with the English. A people removed from These people are imme the southward, and settled on and about the Susquehanna on lands allotted by the Six Nations. diately under the direction of the Six Nations, and at peace with the English. 300 Emigrants from the Mo-All these Nations are in 150 hocks, settled at Soult St. Louis near Montreal, with emigrants at Aghquissasne, below la Galette which is the seat of a Mission. These three Nations now reside together, at the Lac du deux Montagnes at the mouth of the Ottawa river near Montreal. alliance with the Six Nations, and warmly attached to the British Interest, as are all the other Indians in Canada. Caghnawaga is the seat of a Mission, as is the village of Lac du deux Montagnes. |