INDIANS – 1820
Detroit Gazette INDIANS
January 4, 1822
An article is going the round of the papers, purporting to be an estimate of the number of Indians in the United States. The estimated number in this territory is, by this article, started at 2700. If the writer is as much at fault in the enumeration of the Indians in those parts of the country, where we are not acquainted, as in that where we are, his calculations are little to be relied on.
In 1819, a census was taken by the different agents upon this frontier, of the Indians within their respective agencies—with this census we have been favored from a respectable source. The following is the amount:
Number of Indians
Chicago Agency 8836
Green-Bay do. 4800
Michillimacinac do. 5717
Fort Wayne do. 2611
Piqua do. 3413
Detroit, within the peninsula of Mich. Proper 8000
West of Green-Bay Agency, and east of the
Mississippi, including the Sacks and Foxes,
and the Indians on Rock River. 9521
42,898
And yet, with these authentic facts respecting the great number of Indians upon this frontier, and notwithstanding the valuable trade which is carried on with them, an effort was made in the National Legislature at its last session, to turn this whole business to St. Louis. We wish the people of that quarter of our common country all proper success; but we certainly protest in the strongest terms, against every attempt to divert, from its natural and accustomed channel this important article of exportation.
There is and can be no natural commercial connection between this and the Missouri country; and any arbitrary legislative measures, which should send our merchants and traders to the latter, would be impolite and unjust, and would produce much individual injury without one solitary advantage to the community to counterbalance it. Our business and intercourse, natural and habitual, is with New York, and we are in fact except in a political point of view, an extended part of that state.
It is believed that furs to the amount of more than $800,000.00, arrived at and departed from Detroit during the past summer.
Some remarks, connected with the above topic, will be continued in a future number.
Keywords: Indian, American Indian, Native American
Source: U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Minneapolis Area Office, 1312 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55408. Unofficial census survey, July 1965.
Total Number Percent Percent No
Reservation Resident Resident Family Income Family Income Information
Population Families $3000 & over Under $3000 Available
Bay Mills 289 40 50 percent 40 percent 10 percent
Hannahville 169 29 10 percent 90 percent
Isabella 264 49 49 percent 36.73 percent 14.27 percent
L’Anse 542 111 40 percent 38 percent 22 percent
Totals 1,264 229 40 percent 44 percent 16 percent
Source:
1. U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Minneapolis Area Office, 1312 West Lake Street, Minneapolis 8, Minnesota. As of June 30, 1962.
Tribe or Band On Tribal Roll Living on Reservation Acreage
(4-9-1957) or Vicinity
Bay Mills 312 229 2,189 A.
(includes Sugar Is.)
Hannahville 152 134 3,359
Isabella 415 345 1,209
Keweenaw Bay
(L’Anse & Ontonagon) 1,323 508 13,862
2,202 1,216 20,619
Scattered Ottawa &
Chippewa 3,895
(Includes Beaver, Fox
and Hog Islands)
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