Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . n extraction—asserted that they were natives,and that they came up out of the earth. But their traditions allpointed to the fact that they came from the West, while theirwhite conquerors came from the East. They were divided intodifferent tribes, who, wandering over hills and valleys, had ap-portioned these among themselves b
Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . n extraction—asserted that they were natives,and that they came up out of the earth. But their traditions allpointed to the fact that they came from the West, while theirwhite conquerors came from the East. They were divided intodifferent tribes, who, wandering over hills and valleys, had ap-portioned these among themselves by indefinite boundaries,which were held by an uncertain possession and title. They have been classified into five groups, according to lan-guage and dialects, as follows: the Algonquins. inhabiting thecountry from Nova Scotia to the mouth of the James River,thence west to the mouth of the Ohio, thence northward toHudson Bay; the Iroquois, south and east of Lake Ontario,within the above territory; the Appalachians, south of theAlgonquins and east of the Mississippi, the Dakotas, or Sioux,west of the Mississippi and north of the Missouri and Platterivers; and the Shoshones, south and west of the Dakotas. Their numbers in 1639 were estimated at about one hundred 36. ABORIGINES—ORIGIN, LOCATION, AND HABITS. ^ and ninety thousand, as follows: Algonquins, ninety thousand;Iroquois, comprehending the Hurons and the Five Nations,twenty thousand; Cherokees, twelve thousand; Chickasaws,Choctaws, and Muskhogees, sixty-three thousand; Natchez, fourthousand; beside the Shoshones and Dakotas.* In the divis-ions and subdivisions of tribes at this time there were includedtwo hundred and fifty-two different names. These red men of the new world, wherever situated, inrocky New England, in Southern forests, or on the prairiesof the West, were essentially the same, and altogether government was tribal and each chief a petty despot;tlieir religion was a superstition—a blind worshi
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