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United States. Office of Indian Affairs / Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for the year 1865
([1865])
Mackinac agency, pp. 449-454
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450- MACKINAC AGENCY. Indian population of seven thousand eight hundred and forty-nine souls, as follows, viz: Number of Chippewas of Lake Superior........................1,058 Number of Ottawas and Chippewas ............................ 4,923 Number of Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan creek, and Black river .... 1,581 Number of Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottawatomies...............242 Number of Pottawatomies of Huron............................ 45 Total....... ..........................7,849 Of these 3,799 are males, and 4,050 are females, being an excess of females over males of 251. The following exhibit shows the number reported annually by my imme- diate predecessor, late Agent Leach: 1861. Chippewas of Lake Superior.............................. 1,011 Ottawas and Chippewas ....................................... 4,826 Chippewas of Saginaw, &c...................................1,632 Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottawatomies.........................235 Pottawatomies of Huron......................................51 Total....................7755 1862. Chippewas of Lake Superior..................................1,011 Ottawas and Chippewas......................................4,826 Chippewas of Saginaw, &c...................................1,632 Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottawatomies.........................235 Pottawatomies of Huron ...................................51 Total....................................... 7755 1863. Chippewas of Lake Superior..... .......................... 1,032 Ottawas and Chippewas.....................................5,024 Chippewas of Saginaw, &c................................... 1,664 Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottawatomies........................252 Poftawatomies of Huron.......................................51 Total ........................................... 8,023 1864. Chippewas of Lake Superior..................................1,055 Ottawas and Chippewas.................... 5,000 Chippewas of Saginaw, &c ..................................... 1,575 Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottawatomies........................ 246 Pottawatomies of Huron.... ........ .... ..48 Total..........................................7,924
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