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Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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1857 engraving of a sick Native American being cared for by an Indigenous healer
Contemporary illustration of the 1868 Washita massacre by the 7th Cavalry against Black Kettle's band of Cheyenne, during the American Indian Wars. Violence and conflict with colonists were also important causes of the decline of certain Indigenous American populations since the 16th century.

Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, though many scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million by the end of the 20th century.[1][2]

The monarchs of the nascent Spanish Empire decided to fund Christopher Columbus' voyage in 1492, leading to the establishment of colonies and marking the beginning of the migration of millions of Europeans and Africans to the Americas. While the population of European settlers, primarily from Spain, Portugal, France, England, and the Netherlands, along with African slaves, grew steadily, the Indigenous population plummeted. There are numerous reasons for the population decline, including exposure to Eurasian diseases such as influenza, pneumonic plagues, and smallpox; direct violence by settlers and their allies through war and forced removal; and the general disruption of societies.[3][4] Scholarly disputes remain over the degree to which each factor contributed or should be emphasized; some modern scholars have categorized it as a genocide, claiming that deliberate, systematic actions by Europeans were the primary cause.[5][6][7] Traditional scholars have disputed this characterization, maintaining that incidental disease exposure was the primary cause.[6][8][9]

Population overview

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Illustration of Indigenous people of North America
Illustration of Indigenous people of South America

Pre-Columbian population figures are difficult to estimate because of the fragmentary nature of the evidence. Estimates range from 8–112 million.[10] Scholars have varied widely on the estimated size of the Indigenous populations prior to colonization and on the effects of European contact.[11] Estimates are made by extrapolations from small bits of data. In 1976, geographer William Denevan used the existing estimates to derive a "consensus count" of about 54 million people. Nonetheless, more recent estimates still range widely.[12] In 1992, Denevan suggested that the total population was approximately 53.9 million and the populations by region were, approximately, 3.8 million for the United States and Canada, 17.2 million for Mexico, 5.6 million for Central America, 3 million for the Caribbean, 15.7 million for the Andes and 8.6 million for lowland South America.[13] A 2020 genetic study suggests that prior estimates for the pre-Columbian Caribbean population may have been at least tenfold too large.[14] Historian David Stannard estimates that the extermination of Indigenous peoples took the lives of 100 million people: "...the total extermination of many American Indian peoples and the near-extermination of others, in numbers that eventually totaled close to 100,000,000."[15] A 2019 study estimates the pre-Columbian Indigenous population contained more than 60 million people, but dropped to 6 million by 1600, based on a drop in atmospheric CO2 during that period.[16][17] Other studies have disputed this conclusion.[18][19]

The Indigenous population of the Americas in 1492 was not necessarily at a high point and may actually have already been in decline in some areas. Indigenous populations in most areas of the Americas reached a low point by the early 20th century.[20]

Using an estimate of approximately 37 million people in Mexico, Central and South America in 1492 (including 6 million in the Aztec Empire, 5–10 million in the Mayan States, 11 million in what is now Brazil, and 12 million in the Inca Empire), the lowest estimates give a population decrease from all causes of 80% by the end of the 17th century (nine million people in 1650).[21] Latin America would match its 15th-century population early in the 19th century; it numbered 17 million in 1800, 30 million in 1850, 61 million in 1900, 105 million in 1930, 218 million in 1960, 361 million in 1980, and 563 million in 2005.[21] In the last three decades of the 16th century, the population of present-day Mexico dropped to about one million people.[21] The Maya population is today estimated at six million, which is about the same as at the end of the 15th century, according to some estimates.[21] In what is now Brazil, the Indigenous population declined from a pre-Columbian high of an estimated four million to some 300,000. Over 60 million Brazilians possess at least one Native South American ancestor, according to a DNA study.[22]

While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus,[23] estimates range from 3.8 million, as mentioned above, to 7 million[24] people to a high of 18 million.[25] Scholars vary on the estimated size of the Indigenous population in what is now Canada prior to colonization and on the effects of European contact.[26] During the late 15th century is estimated to have been between 200,000[27] and two million,[28] with a figure of 500,000 currently accepted by Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Health.[29] Although not without conflict, European Canadians' early interactions with First Nations and Inuit populations were relatively peaceful.[30] However repeated outbreaks of European infectious diseases such as influenza, measles, and smallpox (to which they had no natural immunity),[31] combined with other effects of European contact, resulted in a twenty-five percent to eighty percent Indigenous population decrease post-contact.[27] Roland G Robertson suggests that during the late 1630s, smallpox killed over half of the Wyandot (Huron), who controlled most of the early North American fur trade in the area of New France.[32] In 1871 there was an enumeration of the Indigenous population within the limits of Canada at the time, showing a total of only 102,358 individuals.[33] From 2006 to 2016, the Indigenous population has grown by 42.5 percent, four times the national rate.[34] According to the 2011 Canadian census, Indigenous peoples (First Nations – 851,560, Inuit – 59,445 and Métis – 451,795) numbered at 1,400,685, or 4.3% of the country's total population.[35]

The population debate has often had ideological underpinnings.[36] Low estimates were sometimes reflective of European notions of cultural and racial superiority. Historian Francis Jennings argued, "Scholarly wisdom long held that Indians were so inferior in mind and works that they could not possibly have created or sustained large populations."[37] In 1998, Africanist Historian David Henige said many population estimates are the result of arbitrary formulas applied from unreliable sources.[38]

Estimations

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Comparative table of estimates of the pre-Columbian population (millions)
Author Date USA and Canada Mexico Mesoamerica Caribbean Andes Patagonia and
Amazonia 		Total
Sapper[39] 1924 2–3 12–15 5–6 3–4 12–15 3–5 37–48.5
Kroeber[40] 1939 0.9 3.2 0.1 0.2 3 1 8.4
Steward[41] 1949 1 4.5 0.74 0.22 6.13 2.9 15.49
Rosenblat[42] 1954 1 4.5 0.8 0.3 4.75 2.03 13.38
Dobyns[43] 1966 9.8–12.25 30–37.5 10.8–13.5 0.44–0.55 30–37.5 9–11.25 90.04–112.55
Ubelaker[44] 1988 1.213–2.639 – – – – – –
Denevan[45] 1992 3.79 17.174 5.625 3 15.696 8.619 53.904
Snow[46] 2001 3.44 – – – – – –
Alchon[47] 2003 3.5 16–18 5–6 2–3 13–15 7–8 46.5–53.5
Thornton[48] 2005 7 – – – – – –
Peros[49] 2009 2.5 – – – – – –
Milner[50] 2010 3.8 – – – – – –

Estimations by tribe

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Population size for Native American tribes is very difficult to state definitively, but at least one writer has made estimates, often based on an assumed proportion of the number of warriors to total population for the tribe.[51] Typical proportions were 5 people per one warrior and at least 1 up to 5 warriors (therefore at least 5–25 people) per lodge, cabin or house.

Highest available estimates: probable population peaks[51]
Rank Cultural Area Region Tribe or nation Highest pop. estimate Year Towns/
villages 		Lodges/cabins/houses/tents/tipis etc. Sources of estimates
1 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Sioux [Note 1][52][53] 150,000 – 50,000 (1841) 1762 40+ 5,000 lodges in 1846, averaging over ten people per lodge Lt. James Gorrell[54] and A. Ramsey
2 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Choctaw [Note 2][55] 125,000 1718 102[56] 102 towns enumerated by Swanton Le Page du Pratz and J. R. Swanton
3 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Illinois [Note 3][57] 100,000 1658 60 Jean de Quen
4a Great Basin Mexican Cession Shoshone 60,000 1820 (number without 20,000 East Shoshone) Jedidiah Morse
4b Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Eastern Shoshone 20,000 1820 Jedidiah Morse
5 Southwest Mexican Cession Pueblo Tigua (Tiwa) 78,100+ 1626 20 7,000 houses only in two largest pueblos Alonso de Benavides[58]
6a Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Blackfoot [Note 4] in the USA 37,500 – 30,000 (1841) 1836 (60,000 in 1841 & approx. 75,000 in 1836, ca. half of them in the USA) George Catlin
6b Great Plains Prairies, Canada Blackfoot[59] in Canada 37,500 – 30,000 (1841) 1836 (60,000 in 1841 & approx. 75,000 in 1836, ca. half of them in Canada) George Catlin
7 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Iroquois [Note 5][60] 70,000 1690 226[61] Nearly 60 towns destroyed in 1779[62] L. A. de Lahontan and John R. Swanton
8 Southwest Mexican Cession Apache 60,000 1700 José de Urrutia
9 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Muscogee confederacy including Hitchiti 50,000 1794 100 (at least 100 towns in 1789 per Henry Knox) James Seagrove and Henry Knox
10 Southwest Mexican Cession Hopi [Note 6][63] 50,000 1584 7 Antonio de Espejo
11 NE Woodlands Old Southwest Shawnee 50,000 – 15,000 (1702) 1540 38+ (at first contact est. 50,000 & 15,000 in 1702) M. A. Jaimes[64] & Pierre d'Iberville
12 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Crow (Apsáalooke) 45,000 1834 Samuel Gardner Drake[65][66]
13 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Hurons [Note 7][67] (Wyandot) 40,000 1632 32 Gabriel Sagard and J. Lalemant
14 Great Plains Texas Annexation Comanche 40,000 1832 George Catlin and J. Morse
15 Southwest Mexican Cession Pueblo Tano/Maguas including Pecos 40,000 1584 11 Antonio de Espejo
16 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Miami [Note 8][68] 40,000 1657 20+ (one of their towns had 400 families in 1751) Gabriel Druillettes
17 NE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Ioways 40,000 1762 16+ (at least 16 towns in the early 19th century) Lt. James Gorrell[54]
18a Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Piegan in the USA 30,000 1700 (ca. 3/4 in the US, ca. 6,000 lodges) George Bird Grinnell
18b Great Plains Alberta, Canada Piegan in Canada 10,000 1700 (ca. 1/4 in Canada, ca. 2,000 lodges) George Bird Grinnell
19 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Pawnee [Note 9][69] 38,000 1719 38 5,000 – 6,000 cabins/lodges & 7,600 warriors Claude Du Tisne and L. Krzywicki
20a NE Woodlands Old Northwest Ojibwe in the USA 18,000 1860 (half in the US and half in Canada) Emmanuel Domenech[70]
20b NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Ojibwe in Canada 18,000 1860 (half in the US and half in Canada) Emmanuel Domenech[70]
21a Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Assiniboine in the USA 17,500 1823 15+ (ca. half in the US, ca. 1,500 lodges) W. H. Keating and G. C. Beltrami
21b Great Plains Prairies, Canada Assiniboine in Canada 17,500 1823 15+ (ca. half in Canada, ca. 1,500 lodges) W. H. Keating and G. C. Beltrami
22 NE Woodlands Acadia, Canada Mi'kmaq 35,000 1500 Virginia P. Miller[71]
23 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Apalachee 34,000 1635 11+ J. R. Swanton
24 Southwest Mexican Cession Navajo (Diné) 30,000+ 1626 In 1910 still numbered 29,624 people in Arizona and New Mexico Alonso de Benavides
25 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Cherokee [Note 10][72] 30,000 1735 201[73] 201 towns enumerated by Swanton J. Adair and Ga. Hist. Coll., II
26 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Tuscarora [Note 11][74] 30,000 1600 24 D. Cusick
27 NE Woodlands New England Narragansett 30,000 1642 8+ S. G. Drake and J. R. Swanton
28 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Mohican confederacy 30,000 1600 16+ J. A. Maurault and J. R. Swanton
29 NE Woodlands New England Massachusett 30,000 1600 23+ J. A. Maurault and J. R. Swanton
30 Southwest Mexican Cession Jemez Pueblo [Note 12][75] 30,000 1584 11 Antonio de Espejo
31 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Timucua tribes 30,000 1635 141 44 missions in 1635: 30,000 Christian Indians J. R. Swanton
32 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Clayoquot (Clayoquat) 30,000 1780 (30,000 under the rule of chief Wickaninnish) Ho. Doc. 1839–1840 and Meares
33a Subarctic & Arctic Saskatchewan, Canada Woods Cree in Saskatchewan 5,600 1670 James Mooney
33b Subarctic & Arctic Manitoba, Canada Cree living in Manitoba 4,250 1670 James Mooney
33c Subarctic & Arctic Alberta, Canada Woodland Cree in Alberta 3,050 1670 James Mooney
33d Subarctic & Arctic Ontario, Canada Swampy Cree in Ontario 2,100 1670 James Mooney
33e Subarctic & Arctic Ontario, Canada Moose Cree (Monsoni) 5,000 1600 James Mooney
33f Great Plains Prairies, Canada Plains Cree 7,000 1853 David G. Mandelbaum
34a Great Basin Mexican Cession Ute living in Utah 13,050 1867 Indian Affairs 1867
34b Great Basin Mexican Cession Ute living in Colorado 7,000 1866 Indian Affairs 1866
34c Great Basin Mexican Cession Ute living in New Mexico 6,000 1846–1854 H. H. Davis and Indian Affairs 1854
35 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Mabila (Mobile) 25,000 1540 Mississippian chiefdom under chief Tuskaloosa, about 5,000 warriors Ludwik Krzywicki
36 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Chinook tribes 22,000 1780 1,000 lodges just among the Lower Chinook James Mooney[76] and Duflot de Mofras
37 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Mascouten 20,000 1679 They consisted of 12 sub-tribes Claude Dablon
38 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Chickasaw 20,000 1687 27+ Louis Hennepin
39 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Neutrals [Note 13][77] 20,000 1616 40 Samuel de Champlain
40 Southwest Mexican Cession Zuni Pueblo 20,000 1584 12 Antonio de Espejo
41 Southwest Mexican Cession Pueblo Tewa/Ubates 20,000 1584 5 Antonio de Espejo
42 NE Woodlands New England Pequots [Note 14][78] 20,000 1600 21 Daniel Gookin and J. R. Swanton
43 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Skidi 20,000 1687 22 At least 4,400 cabins (on average at least 200 per town) George Bird Grinnell
44 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Natchez 20,000 1715 60 Pierre Charlevoix
45 Southwest Mexican Cession Pueblo Punames 20,000 1584 5 Zia was the largest of 5 Puname pueblos Antonio de Espejo
46 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Lenape (Delaware) 18,400 1635–1648 118 (3,680 warriors in 27 divisions or "kingdoms") R. Evelin, Th. Donaldson & Swanton
47 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Mandan 17,500 – 15,000 (1836) 1738 17 1,000+ lodges and 3,500 warriors W. Sanstead[79] & Indian Affairs 1836
48 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Atsina (Gros Ventre) 16,800 1837 Still reported at 16,800 in 1841[80] Indian Affairs 1837
49 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Powhatan confederacy 16,600 1616 161 (3,320 warriors in 1616) William Strachey and John Smith
50 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Nanticoke confederacy 16,500 1600 16+ (1,100 warriors in 4 tribes, in total 12 tribes) John Smith and J. R. Swanton
51 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Arikaras 16,000 1700 48 Kinglsey M. Bray[81]
52 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Vancouver Island Salish 15,500 1780 (Coast Salish on Vancouver Island) Herbert C. Taylor[82]
53 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Arapaho 15,250 1812 M. R. Stuart
54 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Wichita confederacy 15,000+ 1772 (3,000+ warriors) Juan de Ripperda
55 Southwest Mexican Cession Pueblo Keres [Note 15][83] 15,000 1584 7 Antonio de Espejo
56 NE Woodlands New England Abenaki 15,000 1600 31 J. A. Maurault and J. R. Swanton
57 NE Woodlands New England Pennacook confederacy 15,000 1674 Daniel Gookin
58 NE Woodlands New England Wampanoag (mainland) 15,000 1600 30 Daniel Gookin and J. R. Swanton
59 NE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Missouria [Note 16][84] 15,000 1764 H. Bouquet and J. Buchanan
60 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Hidatsa 15,000 1835 William M. Denevan[85]
61 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Ottawa (Odawa) 15,000 – 13,150 (1825) 1777 (3,000 warriors in 1777) L. Houck and J. C. Colhoun
62 Southwest Texas Annexation Coahuiltecan tribes 15,000 1690 James Mooney[86]
63 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Mishinimaki 15,000 1600 30 Claude Dablon
64 Southwest Mexican Cession Taos Pueblo (Yuraba) 15,000 1540 1+ Relacion del Suceso[87]
65 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Erie 14,500 1653 J. N. B. Hewitt
66 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Kwakiutl tribes excluding Haisla 14,500 1780 Herbert C. Taylor[88]
67 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Nootka (Nutka) tribes 14,000 1780 Herbert C. Taylor[88]
68 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Wappinger confederacy 13,500 1600 68 E. J. Boesch and J. R. Swanton
69 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Mississaugas (Messassagnes) 12,000+ 1744 3+ (2,400 warriors in 3 large towns) Arthur Dobbs
70 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Coast Salish (except VI) 12,000 1835 (includes 7,100 mainland Cowichan / Stalo and 1,400 mainland Comox) Wilson Duff & J. Mooney
71 Subarctic & Arctic District of Franklin, Canada District of Franklin Inuit 12,000 1670 James Mooney
72 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Lekwiltok 10,520 1839 HBC Indian Census 1839
73 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Puget Sound Salish (Lushootseed) tribes 10,300 1780 Herbert C. Taylor
74 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Catawba 10,000 1700 R. Mills and H. Lewis Scaife[89]
75 Southwest Mexican Cession Akimel O'odham (Pima) 10,000 1850 S. Mowry
76 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Cheyenne 10,000 1856 1,000 lodges and 2,000 warriors Thomas S. Twiss[90]
77 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Chilkat 10,000 1869 F. K. Louthan
78 Southwest Mexican Cession Pueblo Tompiro 10,000 1626 15 Alonso de Benavides
79 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Menominee 10,000 1778 (2,000 warriors) H. R. Schoolcraft
80 Southwest Mexican Cession Mohave (Mojave) 10,000 1869 William Abraham Bell
81 Southwest Texas Annexation Jumanos 10,000 1584 5+ 5 large towns Antonio de Espejo
82 SE Woodlands Florida Purchase Seminole[91] 10,000 1836 93[92] (other figures: 4,883 people in 1821 and 6,385 people in 1822) N. G. Taylor and Capt. Hugh Young
83 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Calusa 10,000 1570 56 Lopez de Velasco & J. R. Swanton
84 Great Plains Texas Annexation Kichai, Waco, Tawakoni 10,000 1719 (2,000 warriors) Benard de La Harpe
85 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Pisquow (Piskwau) and Sinkiuse-Columbia 10,000 1780 (including Wenatchi / Wenatchee) James Teit
86 NE Woodlands Quebec, Canada St. Lawrence Iroquoians 10,000 1500 Also known as Laurentians Gary Warrick & Louis Lesage[93]
87 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Bitterroot Salish (Flathead Salish) 9,000 1821 (1,800 warriors) M. R. Stuart
88 Great Basin Oregon Country Bannock and Diggers 9,000 1848 1,200 lodges of southern Bannock (in 1829) Joseph L. Meek and Jim Bridger
89 Southwest Mexican Cession Piro Pueblo 9,000 1500 14 John R. Swanton and Alonso de Benavides
90 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Caddo tribes 8,500 1690 James Mooney
91 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Haida (except Kaigani) 8,400 1787 42+ C. F. Newcombe
92 Great Basin Mexican Cession Paiute 8,200 1859 John Weiss Forney
93 NE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Osage 8,000 1819 17 (1,500 families in 1702,1,600 warriors in 1764 and 8,000 people in 1819[94]) Th. Nuttall, Iberville and H. Bouquet
94 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Kansa (Kaw) 8,000 1764 (1,600 warriors) Henry Bouquet
95 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Nez Perce 8,000 1806 Isaac Ingalls Stevens
96 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Tionontati (Petun) 8,000 1600 9 9 towns, 600 families in the main town James Mooney & Jes. Rel. XXXV
97 Subarctic & Arctic Canada Chipewyan 7,500 1812 Samuel Gardner Drake
98 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Secwepemc (Shuswap) 7,200 1850 James Teit[95] and A. C. Anderson
99 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Omaha, Ponca 7,200 1702 Pierre d'Iberville
100 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Yamasee 7,000 1702 10 (1,400 warriors) Guillaume Delisle
101 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Conoy (Piscataway) 7,000+ 1600 13+ W. M. Denevan[85] & J. R. Swanton
102 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Umpqua 7,000 1835 Samuel Parker
103 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Tsimshian of British Columbia and Nisga'a 7,000 1780 (includes Kitksan / Gitxsan and Kitsun tribes) James Mooney
104 Southwest Mexican Cession Tohono Oʼodham (Papago) 6,800 1863 19 Indian Affairs 1863[96]
105 NE Woodlands Quebec, Canada Algonquin (Anicinàpe) 6,500 1860 Emmanuel Domenech
106 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Sauk (Sac) 6,500 1786 Wisconsin Hist. Coll., XII
107 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Potawatomi 6,500 1829 Peter Buell Porter & McKenney
108 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Meskwaki (Fox) 6,400 1835 Cutting Marsh[97] in Wisconsin Hist. Coll., XV
109 Southwest Mexican Cession Acoma Pueblo 6,000 1584 1+ 500+ houses Antonio de Espejo
110 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Wea 6,000 1718 5 (1,200 warriors) N. Y. Col. Dcts., IX
111 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Quapaw (Arkansa) 6,000 1541 4+ Fidalgo D'Elvas[98]
112 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Yakama 6,000 1857 (1,200 warriors) A. N. Armstrong[99]
113 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Montauk 6,000 1600 20 J. R. Swanton
114 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Alsea, Siuslaw, Yaquina and Luckton 6,000 1780 110 (tribes of Yakonan language family) James Mooney and James Owen Dorsey
115 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) 5,800 1818 Jedidiah Morse
116 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Rogue River Indians (Tututni tribes) 5,600 1780 James Mooney
117 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Kutenai (Ktunaxa) 5,600 1820 Jedidiah Morse
118 Southwest Mexican Cession Quechan (Yuma) 5,500 1775–1855 A. F. Bandelier, Ten Kate
119 Subarctic & Arctic Quebec, Canada Innu and Naskapi 5,500 1600 17+ James Mooney and J. R. Swanton
120 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Kiowa 5,450 1805–1807 Z. M. Pike
121 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Palouse (Palus) 5,400 1780 James Mooney and J. R. Swanton
122 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Susquehanna (Conestoga) 5,000 1600 20+ James Mooney and J. R. Swanton
123 NE Woodlands New England Pocumtuk 5,000 1600 Pocumtuc History[100]
124 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Nlaka'pamux 5,000 1858 James Teit[101] & A. C. Anderson
125 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Dakelh (Carrier) 5,000 1835 A. C. Anderson and J. Mooney
126 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Klikitat (Klickitat) 5,000 1829 (1,000 warriors under chief Casanow) Paul Kane
127 SE Woodlands Texas Annexation Hasinai confederacy 5,000 1716 Herbert Eugene Bolton
128 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Makah 5,000+ 1805 (more than 1,000 warriors) John R. Jewitt
129 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Yuchi (Euchee also known as Chisca) 5,000 – 2,500 (in 1777) 1550 (at least 500 warriors in year 1777) William Bartram & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
130 Southwest Mexican Cession Halyikwamai 5,000 1605 Juan de Oñate
131 Subarctic & Arctic District of Mackenzie, Canada District of Mackenzie Inuit 4,800 1670 James Mooney
132 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Chilcotin (Tsilkotin) 4,600 1793 (by 1888 population was 10% of 1793 level) A. G. Morice and HBC employees
133 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Chopunnish 4,300 1806 Extinct native American tribes of North America[103]
134 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Honniasont 4,000+ 1662 (800+ warriors) John R. Swanton[104]
135 NE Woodlands New England Niantic 4,000 1500 Capers Jones[105]
136 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Chitimacha 4,000 1699 300+ cabins and 800 warriors Benard de La Harpe
137 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Lillooet (Stʼatʼimc) 4,000 1780 James Mooney and J. Teit[106]
138 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Modoc & Klamath 4,000 1868 Indian Affairs 1868
139 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Weapemeoc (Yeopim) 4,000 1585 5+ (800 warriors) S. R. Grenville
140 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Sahaptin 4,000 1857 (Tenino, Tygh, Wyam, John Day, Tilquni) A. N. Armstrong[99]
141 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Guale 4,000 1650 J. R. Swanton
142 Subarctic & Arctic Canada Kutchin (Loucheux) 4,000 1871 Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871[107]
143 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Skitswish 4,000 1800 James Teit
144 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Wappatoo tribes 3,600 1780 James Mooney[108]
145 Subarctic & Arctic Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada Labrador Inuit 3,600 1600 J. Mooney & Kroeber[109]
146 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Nisqually 3,600 1780 James Mooney
147 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Chowanoc 3,500+ 1585 5 (1585: 700 warriors just in one of five towns) Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
148 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Acolapissa 3,500 1600 120+ cabins Acolapissa History[110]
149 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Colville 3,500 1806 Isaac Ingalls Stevens
150 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Babine (Witsuwitʼen) 3,500 1780 James Mooney
151 Southwest Mexican Cession Havasupai and Tonto Apaches 3,500 1854 Amiel Weeks Whipple
152 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Plains Apache (Kiowa-Apache) 3,375 1818 Jedidiah Morse
153 Subarctic & Arctic British Columbia, Canada Sekani (Tse'khene) 3,200 1780 James Mooney and Sekani Indians of Canada[111]
154 Subarctic & Arctic Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Beothuk 3,050 1500 Ralph T. Pastore, Leslie Upton[112]
155 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Alabama (Alibamu) 3,000 1764 6 (600 warriors) Henry Bouquet
156 NE Woodlands New England Nantucket 3,000 1660 10 J. Barber in J. Chase and J. R. Swanton
157 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Nottoway 3,000 1586 (600 warriors) R. Lane in Hakluyt, VIII
158 Great Plains Texas Annexation Tonkawa 3,000 1814 (600 warriors) John F. Schermerhorn
159 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Wallawalla (Walula) 3,000 1848 Miss A. J. Allen[113]
160 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Spokan (Spokane) 3,000 1848 Joseph L. Meek
161 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Okinagan (Syilx) 3,000 1780 Also spelled Okanagan James Teit
162 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Nipissing 3,000 1764 (600 warriors) Th. Hutchins in H. R. Schoolcraft
163 NE Woodlands New England Shawomets and Cowsetts (Cowesets) 3,000 1500 Capers Jones[105]
164 Southwest Mexican Cession Halchidhoma 3,000 1799 8 (according to Juan de Onate – 8 towns in 1604) J. Cortez
165 Southwest Mexican Cession Piipaash (Maricopa) 3,000 1799 J. Cortez and Francisco Garcés
166 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Taposa and Ibitoupa 3,000 1699 Baudry de Lozieres
167 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Multnomah 3,000 1830 (decimated by epidemics in 1830s) Hall J. Kelley
168 Subarctic & Arctic District of Keewatin, Canada District of Keewatin Inuit 3,000 1670 James Mooney
169 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Potano 3,000 1650 James Mooney
170 Southwest Mexican Cession Cocopah 3,000 1775 9 Francisco Garcés and de Oñate
171 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Kalapuya tribes 3,000 1780 Eight tribes or bands James Mooney
172 Southwest Mexican Cession Cajuenche (Cawina) 3,000 1680 James Mooney
173 Southwest Mexican Cession Pueblo Picuris 3,000 1680 1+ Agustín de Vetancurt
174 NE Woodlands New England Martha's Vineyard Wampanoag (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah) 3,000 1642 8 Lloyd C. M. Hare and J. R. Swanton
175 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Kickapoo 3,000 1759 J. R. Swanton
176 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Watlala 2,800 1805 Lewis and Clark
177 Southwest Texas Annexation Karankawa 2,800 1690 James Mooney
178 NE Woodlands Acadia, Canada Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) 2,750 1764 (550 warriors) Th. Hutchins in H. R. Schoolcraft
179 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Heiltsuk (Bellabella) and Haisla 2,700 1780 James Mooney
180 NE Woodlands New England Mohegan 2,500 1680 21 (500 warriors) Mass. Hist. Coll. and J. R. Swanton
181 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Clackamas 2,500 1780 11 James Mooney
182 Southwest Mexican Cession Yavapai 2,500 1869 J. Ross Browne
183 NE Woodlands New England Nipmuc 2,500 1500 29 Capers Jones[105] and J. R. Swanton
184 Subarctic & Arctic Northwest Territories, Canada Inuvialuit 2,500 1850 Jessica M. Shadian, Mark Nuttall
185 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Manhasset (Manhanset) 2,500 1500 (500+ warriors) E. M. Ruttenber
186 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Snohomish 2,500 1844 Duflot de Mofras
187 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Mosopelea (Ofo), Koroa, and Tioux (Tiou) 2,450 1700 J. R. Swanton
188 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Cowlitz 2,400 1822 3 Jedidiah Morse
189 NE Woodlands New England Penobscot 2,250 1702 14 (450 warriors) N. H. Hist. Coll., I and J. R. Swanton
190 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Tunica 2,250 1698 7 260 cabins and 450 warriors J. G. Shea and J. R. Swanton
191 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Kalispel 2,250 1835–1850 (450 warriors) HBC agents & Joseph Lane
192 Great Plains Alberta, Canada Sarcee (Tsuutʼina) 2,200 1832 220 tents, on average 10 people per tent George Catlin and John Maclean
193 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Tillamook 2,200 1820 10 Jedidiah Morse
194 Subarctic & Arctic Yukon, Canada Yukon Inuit 2,200 1670 James Mooney
195 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Tapanash (Eneeshur) including Skinpah 2,200 1780 James Mooney
196 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Yazoo 2,000+ 1700 Dumont de Montigny
197 Subarctic & Arctic British Columbia, Canada Nahani and Tahltan in British Columbia 2,000 1780 James Mooney
198 NE Woodlands New England Nauset 2,000 1600 24 W. M. Denevan[85] & J. R. Swanton
199 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Wenro 2,000 1600 J. N. B. Hewitt
200 Subarctic & Arctic District of Mackenzie, Canada Awokanak (Slavey, Etchaottine) 2,000 1857 Emile Petitot
201 Southwest Mexican Cession Hualapai (Walapai) 2,000 1869 J. Ross Browne
202 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Cayuse 2,000 1835 Samuel Parker
203 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Sinixt (Senijextee) 2,000+ 1780 20+ James Teit
204 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Nuxalk (Bellacoola) 2,000 1835 Wilson Duff
205 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Quatsino 2,000 1839 HBC Indian Census 1839
206 Great Plains Saskatchewan, Canada Fall Indians (Alannar) 2,000 1804 Extinct Native American tribes of North America[103]
207 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Samish 2,000+ 1845 Edmund Clare Fitzhugh
208 Subarctic & Arctic District of Athabasca, Canada Etheneldeli 2,000 1875 Émile Petitot
209 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Klallam 2,000 1780 James Mooney
210 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Chakchiuma 2,000 1702 400 families in 1702 Bienville
211 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Coos and Miluk 2,000 1780 James Mooney
212 Southwest Mexican Cession Qnigyuma (Jalliquamay) 2,000 1680 James Mooney
213 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Cusabo and Cusso 1,900 1600 (Cusabo 1,300 and Cusso 600) James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
214 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Chimnapum (Chamnapum) 1,860 1805 42 lodges Lewis and Clark
215 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Wanapum (Wanapam) 1,800 1780 James Mooney
216 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Squamish (Squawmish) 1,800 1780 James Mooney
217 Subarctic & Arctic Nunavik, Quebec, Canada Nunavik Inuit 1,800 1600 James Mooney
218 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Houma 1,750 1699 140 cabins and 350 warriors Pierre d'Iberville
219 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Shahala 1,700 1780 James Mooney
220 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Sanpoil 1,700 1780 45+ houses Verne F. Ray and George Gibbs
221 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Coquille 1,650 1800 33 James Owen Dorsey
222 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Wateree (Guatari) 1,600 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
223 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Tlatskanai 1,600 1780 James Mooney
224 NE Woodlands New England Passamaquoddy 1,600 1690 320 warriors Wendell
225 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Westo and Stono 1,600 1600 James Mooney
226 Subarctic & Arctic District of Mackenzie, Canada Dogrib (Tlicho) 1,500 1875 Emile Petitot
227 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Attacapa (Atakapa) 1,500 1650 James Mooney
228 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Otoe 1,500 1815 (300 warriors) William Clark
229 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Wasco 1,500 1838 G. Hines
230 Subarctic & Arctic Yukon, Canada Hankutchin 1,500 1851 (three subdivisions x 100 warriors each) John Richardson
231 NE Woodlands New England Podunk 1,500+ 1675 (300 warriors fought in King Philip's War) E. Stiles
232 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Saponi 1,500 1600 2 Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
233 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Waxhaw and Sugeree 1,500 1600 2 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
234 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Manahoac 1,500 1600 James Mooney
235 Great Basin Mexican Cession Washo 1,500 1800 A. L. Kroeber
236 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Bayogoula, Mugulasha and Quinipissa 1,500 1650 James Mooney
237 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Tohome 1,500 1700 300 warriors Pierre d'Iberville
238 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Siletz, Nestucca, Salmon River tribe 1,500 1780 James Mooney
239 Subarctic & Arctic District of Mackenzie, Canada Mauvais Monde (Etquaotinne) 1,500 1871 Also spelled Tsethaottine Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871[107]
240 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Taensa 1,500 1700 120 cabins and 300 warriors Pierre d'Iberville
241 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Chatot 1,500 1674 J. R. Swanton
242 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Wishram 1,500 1780 James Mooney
243 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Lummi 1,300 1862 Myron Eells
244 Subarctic & Arctic Alberta, Canada Beaver (Tsattine) 1,250 1670 Also known as Dane-zaa James Mooney
245 Subarctic & Arctic District of Keewatin, Canada Caribou-Eaters 1,250 1670 James Mooney
246 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Monacan 1,200 1600 James Mooney
247 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Tutelo 1,200 1600 Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
248 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Occaneechi 1,200 1600 James Mooney
249 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Cheraw 1,200 1600 James Mooney
250 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Machapunga 1,200 1600 3 Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
251 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Quinaielt 1,200 1805 70 houses Lewis and Clark
252 SE Woodlands Texas Annexation Arkokisa (Akokisa) 1,200 1746 5 300 families in 5 rancherias H. E. Bolton
253 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Kuitsh 1,200 1820 21 Jedidiah Morse and James Owen Dorsey
254 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Secotan 1,200 1600 Maurice A. Mook[114]
255 Subarctic & Arctic Yukon, Canada Tutchone 1,100 1910 Frederick Webb Hodge
256 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Waccamaw 1,050 1715 6 210 warriors W. J. Rivers
257 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Guarugunve & Cuchiyaga 1,040 1570 (they inhabited Florida Keys) Lopez de Velasco
258 Subarctic & Arctic District of Mackenzie, Canada Hare (Kawchottine) 1,000+ 1850 Ludwik Krzywicki
259 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Pamlico (Pomouik) and Bear River 1,000 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
260 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Neusiok & Coree 1,000 1600 5 James Mooney
261 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Cape Fear Indians 1,000 1600 James Mooney
262 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Santee 1,000 1600 2+ James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
263 Great Plains Texas Annexation Bidai 1,000+ 1745 7 (200+ warriors) Athanase de Mezieres
264 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Ais & Tekesta 1,000 1650 6+ J. R. Swanton & James Mooney
265 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Jeaga & Mayaimi 1,000 1650 5+ J. R. Swanton & James Mooney
266 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Tocobaga 1,000 1650 James Mooney
267 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Yustaga 1,000 1650 James Mooney
268 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Biloxi/Pascagoula/Moctobi 1,000 1650 4 James Mooney
269 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Moratoc 1,000 1600 Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
270 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Edisto 1,000 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
271 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Sechelt 1,000 1780 James Mooney
272 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Wahowpum 1,000 1844 Crawford in G. Wilkes
273 SE Woodlands Texas Annexation Yojuane, Deadose 1,000 1745 H. E. Bolton
274 SE Woodlands Texas Annexation Mayeye 1,000 1805 200 warriors J. Sibley
275 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Dulchioni 1,000 1712 200 warriors Andre Penicaut
276 Southwest Mexican Cession Manso 1,000 1668 Agustín de Vetancurt
277 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Quinault 1,000 1805 Includes 200 Calasthocle Lewis and Clark
278 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Okelousa 950 1650 Not to be confused with Opelousa James Mooney
279 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Cushook 900 1780 James Mooney
280 SE Woodlands Texas Annexation Aranama 870+ 1778 Athanase de Mezieres
281 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Sewee 800+ 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
282 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Congaree 800 1600 James Mooney
283 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Sissipahaw 800 1600 1 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
284 NE Woodlands New England Paugussett 800 1600 C. Thomas in F. W. Hodge
285 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Smacksop 800 1805 24 houses Lewis and Clark
286 Subarctic & Arctic Yukon, Canada Nahani of Yukon 800 1670 James Mooney
287 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Methow 800 1780 Robert H. Ruby[115] and J. Mooney
288 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Snoqualmie 750 1862 Indian Affairs 1862
289 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Coushatta (Koasati) 750 1760 John R. Swanton
290 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Kaskinampo 750 1700 150 warriors Bienville
291 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Meherrin 700 1600 James Mooney
292 Subarctic & Arctic Ontario, Canada Abittibi 700 1736 (140 warriors) Michel de La Chauvignerie
293 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Quileute 650 1868 W. B. Gosnell
294 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Skaquamish 650 1862 Indian Affairs 1862
295 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Appalousa (Opelousa) 650 1715 130 warriors, 52 cabins Baudry de Lozieres
296 Subarctic & Arctic Northwest Territories, Canada Yellowknives 600+ 1877 70+ tents Emile Petitot
297 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Etiwaw (also Etiwan) 600 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
298 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Woccon 600 1701 2 (120 warriors) John Lawson, "History of Carolina"
299 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Peedee (Pedee) 600 1600 1 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
300 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Keyauwee 600 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
301 Southwest Mexican Cession Sobaipuri 600 1680 James Mooney
302 NE Woodlands New England Quinnipiac 550 1730 John William De Forest
303 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Apalachicola 525 1738 2 (105 warriors in two towns) John R. Swanton
304 NE Woodlands New England Manisses 500 1500 Capers Jones[105]
305 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Takelma and Latgawa 500 1780 James Mooney
306 NE Woodlands New England Tunxis 500 1600 (100 warriors) John William De Forest
307 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Chiaha in South Carolina 500 1600 Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
308 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Hatteras 500 1600 Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
309 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Eno 500 1600 1 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
310 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Shakori 500 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
311 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Adshusheer 500 1600 James Mooney & Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
312 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Twana 500 1841 Myron Eells
313 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Chetco 500 1800 9 42 houses in 9 villages James Owen Dorsey and Ludwik Krzywicki
314 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Cahinnio 500+ 1687 1 100 cabins in one village Ludwik Krzywicki
315 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Shasta Costa 500+ 1750 33 33 small hamlets James Owen Dorsey and Ludwik Krzywicki
316 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Patuxent 500 1600 100 warriors William Strachey and John Smith
317 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Mattapanient 500 1600 100 warriors William Strachey and John Smith
318 NE Woodlands Quebec, Canada Atikamekw (Attikamegue) 500+ 1647 over 30 canoes Ludwik Krzywicki
319 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Wicocomoco 500 1600 100 warriors John Smith
320 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Tsetsaut (Tsesaut) 500 1835 Ludwik Krzywicki and John R. Swanton
321 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Tocwogh 500 1600 100 warriors John Smith
322 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Sutaio 500 1829 100 warriors Peter Buell Porter
323 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Musqueam 500 1780 Ludwik Krzywicki
324 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Moyawance 500 1600 100 warriors John Smith
325 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Quaitso 500 1830 Hall J. Kelley
326 Subarctic & Arctic British Columbia, Canada Strongbow 500 1780 James Mooney
327 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Adai 500 1718 100 warriors Bienville
328 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Topinish 450 1839 HBC Indian Census 1839
329 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Nooksak 450 1854 Isaac Ingalls Stevens
330 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Kathlamet (Cathlamet) 450 1780 James Mooney
331 Subarctic & Arctic British Columbia, Canada Ettchaottine 435 1858 F. W. Hodge
332 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Skaddal 400 1847 W. Robertson
333 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Luckton 400 1830 Hall J. Kelley
334 NE Woodlands New England Wangunk 400 1600 James Mooney
335 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Avoyel 400 1698 32 cabins (and 80 warriors) J. R. Swanton
336 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Chimakum 400 1780 James Mooney
337 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Squaxon 375 1857 John Ross Browne
338 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Kwantlen 375+ 1839 HBC Indian Census 1839
339 Great Basin Mexican Cession Chemehuevi 355 1910 1910 Census
340 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Ouachita 350 1700 1 70 warriors Bienville
341 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Pilalt (Cheam) 304 1839 HBC Indian Census 1839
342 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Saukaulutucks 300 1860 R. Mayne
343 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Chehalis and Kwaiailk 300 1850 Joseph Lane
344 Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Amahami 300 1811 H. M. Brackenridge
345 Subarctic & Arctic Nunavut, Canada Southampton Island Inuit 300 1670 James Mooney
346 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Clatsop 300 1806 Lewis and Clark
347 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Charcowah 300 1780 James Mooney
348 Subarctic & Arctic District of Mackenzie, Canada Sheep (Esbataottine) 300 1670 James Mooney
349 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Semiahmoo 300 1843 John R. Swanton
350 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Tawasa 300 1792 John R. Swanton
351 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Amacano, Chine, Caparaz 300 1674 John R. Swanton
352 NE Woodlands Middle Colonies Ozinies 255 1608 They lived in Delaware and Maryland Maryland at a glance: Native Americans[116]
353 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Umatilla 250 1858 Indian Affairs 1858
354 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Washa 250 1715 50 warriors Baudry de Lozieres
355 Subarctic & Arctic District of Mackenzie, Canada Nahani in District of Mackenzie 250 1906 John R. Swanton
356 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Naniaba 250 1730 50 warriors Regis de Rouillet
357 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Squannaroo 240 1847 W. Robertson
358 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Molala 240 1857 J. W. P. Huntington
359 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Nacisi 230 1700 23 houses Bienville
360 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Secowocomoco 200 1600 40 warriors John Smith
361 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Copalis 200 1805 10 houses Lewis and Clark
362 NE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Ahwajiaway 200 1805 Extinct Native American tribes of North America[103]
363 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Kwalhioqua 200 1780 James Mooney
364 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Juntata 200 1648 40 warriors R. Evelin
365 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Chawasha 200 1715 40 warriors Baudry de Lozieres
366 SE Woodlands Southern Colonies Winyaw 180 1715 1 (36 warriors and one village) Carolina – The Native Americans[102]
367 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Nanoose 159 1839 HBC Indian Census 1839
368 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Totontaratonhronon 150 1640 15 houses J. Lalemant
369 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Nicola Athapaskans (Stuichamukh) 150 1780 3 Also spelled Stuwihamuq Franz Boas & J. Mooney
370 Northwest Coast British Columbia, Canada Sumas 132 1895 3 Canadian Indian Affairs
371 Northwest Plateau Oregon Country Wiam 130 1850 Joseph Lane
372 SE Woodlands Texas Annexation Cujane 100 1750 H. E. Bolton
373 Northwest Coast Oregon Country Hoh 100 1875 Indian Affairs 1875
374 NE Woodlands Old Northwest Noquet 100 1721 N. Y. Col. Dcts., VI. 622
375 SE Woodlands Spanish Florida Pensacola 100 1725 20 warriors Bienville
376 SE Woodlands Old Southwest Choula 40 1722 Benard de La Harpe
377 California Mexican Cession California Native tribes 340,000 1769 Cook, Jones & Codding,[117] Field[118]
378 Subarctic & Arctic Alaska Alaska Native tribes 93,800 1750 Steve Langdon[119]

The total peak population size only for the tribes listed in this table is 3,529,240 in the US and Canada (including 507,675 in Canada). This number is very similar to Snow's estimate for the US and Canada[46] and to Alchon's, Denevan's and Milner's estimates.[45][47][50]

Pre-Columbian Americas

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Main article: Genetic history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas
See also: Y-DNA haplogroups in Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Bust of Cuauhtémoc in el Zócalo, Mexico City.

Genetic diversity and population structure in the American land mass using DNA micro-satellite markers (genotype) sampled from North, Central, and South America have been analyzed against similar data available from other Indigenous populations worldwide.[120][121] The Amerindian populations show a lower genetic diversity than populations from other continental regions.[121] Decreasing genetic diversity with increasing geographic distance from the Bering Strait can be seen, as well as a decreasing genetic similarity to Siberian populations from Alaska (genetic entry point).[120][121] A higher level of diversity and lower level of population structure in western South America compared to eastern South America is observed.[120][121] A relative lack of differentiation between Mesoamerican and Andean populations is a scenario that implies coastal routes were easier than inland routes for migrating peoples (Paleo-Indians) to traverse.[120] The overall pattern that is emerging suggests that the Americas were recently colonized by a small number of individuals (effective size of about 70–250), and then they grew by a factor of 10 over 800–1,000 years.[122][123] The data also show that there have been genetic exchanges between Asia, the Arctic and Greenland since the initial peopling of the Americas.[123][124] A new study in early 2018 suggests that the effective population size of the original founding population of Native Americans was about 250 people.[125][126]

Depopulation by Old World diseases

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See also: Influx of disease in the Caribbean, Native American disease and epidemics, and History of smallpox § Epidemics in the Americas
One estimate of population collapse in Central Mexico brought on by successive epidemics in the early colonial period. Note: Other scholars' estimates vary widely.

Early explanations for the population decline of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas include the brutal practices of the Spanish conquistadores, as recorded by the Spaniards themselves, such as the encomienda system, which was ostensibly set up to protect people from warring tribes as well as to teach them the Spanish language and the Catholic religion, but in practice was tantamount to serfdom and slavery.[127] The most notable account was that of the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, whose writings vividly depict Spanish atrocities committed in particular against the Taínos.[128] The second European explanation was a perceived divine approval, in which God removed the Indigenous peoples as part of His "divine plan" to make way for a new Christian civilization. Many Native Americans viewed their troubles in a religious framework within their own belief systems.[129]

According to later academics such as Noble David Cook, a community of scholars began "quietly accumulating piece by piece data on early epidemics in the Americas and their relation to the subjugation of native peoples." Scholars like Cook believe that widespread epidemic disease, to which the Indigenous peoples had no prior exposure or resistance, was the primary cause of the massive population decline of the Native Americans.[130] One of the most devastating diseases was smallpox, but other deadly diseases included typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis, which were chronic in Eurasia.[131]

However, recently scholars have studied the link between physical colonial violence such as warfare, displacement, and enslavement, and the proliferation of disease among Native populations.[4][132][133] For example, according to Coquille scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker, "In recent decades, however, researchers challenge the idea that disease is solely responsible for the rapid Indigenous population decline. The research identifies other aspects of European contact that had profoundly negative impacts on Native peoples' ability to survive foreign invasion: war, massacres, enslavement, overwork, deportation, the loss of will to live or reproduce, malnutrition and starvation from the breakdown of trade networks, and the loss of subsistence food production due to land loss."[134]

Further, Andrés Reséndez of the University of California, Davis points out that, even though the Spanish were aware of deadly diseases such as smallpox, there is no mention of them in the New World until 1519, implying that, until that date, epidemic disease played no significant part in the depopulation of the Antilles. The practices of forced labor, brutal punishment, and inadequate necessities of life, were the initial and major reasons for depopulation.[135] Jason Hickel estimates that a third of Arawak workers died every six months from forced labor in these mines.[136] In this way, "slavery has emerged as a major killer" of the Indigenous populations of the Caribbean between 1492 and 1550, as it set the conditions for diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and malaria to flourish.[135] Unlike the populations of Europe who rebounded following the Black Death, no such rebound occurred for the Indigenous populations.[135]

Similarly, historian Jeffrey Ostler at the University of Oregon has argued that population collapses in North America throughout colonization were not due mainly to lack of Native immunity to European disease. Instead, he claims that "When severe epidemics did hit, it was often less because Native bodies lacked immunity than because European colonialism disrupted Native communities and damaged their resources, making them more vulnerable to pathogens." In specific regard to Spanish colonization of northern Florida and southeastern Georgia, Native peoples there "were subject to forced labor and, because of poor living conditions and malnutrition, succumbed to wave after wave of unidentifiable diseases." Further, in relation to British colonization in the Northeast, Algonquian speaking tribes in Virginia and Maryland "suffered from a variety of diseases, including malaria, typhus, and possibly smallpox." These diseases were not solely a case of Native susceptibility, however, because "as colonists took their resources, Native communities were subject to malnutrition, starvation, and social stress, all making people more vulnerable to pathogens. Repeated epidemics created additional trauma and population loss, which in turn disrupted the provision of healthcare." Such conditions would continue, alongside rampant disease in Native communities, throughout colonization, the formation of the United States, and multiple forced removals, as Ostler explains that many scholars "have yet to come to grips with how U.S. expansion created conditions that made Native communities acutely vulnerable to pathogens and how severely disease impacted them. ... Historians continue to ignore the catastrophic impact of disease and its relationship to U.S. policy and action even when it is right before their eyes."[6]

Historian David Stannard says that by "focusing almost entirely on disease ... contemporary authors increasingly have created the impression that the eradication of those tens of millions of people was inadvertent—a sad, but both inevitable and "unintended consequence" of human migration and progress," and asserts that their destruction "was neither inadvertent nor inevitable," but the result of microbial pestilence and purposeful genocide working in tandem.[137] He also wrote:[138]

...Despite frequent undocumented assertions that disease was responsible for the great majority of indigenous deaths in the Americas, there does not exist a single scholarly work that even pretends to demonstrate this claim on the basis of solid evidence. And that is because there is no such evidence, anywhere. The supposed truism that more native people died from disease than from direct face-to-face killing or from gross mistreatment or other concomitant derivatives of that brutality such as starvation, exposure, exhaustion, or despair is nothing more than a scholarly article of faith...

Chief Sitting Bull.

In contrast, historian Russel Thornton has pointed out that there were disastrous epidemics and population losses during the first half of the sixteenth century "resulting from incidental contact, or even without direct contact, as disease spread from one American Indian tribe to another."[139] Thornton has also challenged higher Indigenous population estimates, which are based on the Malthusian assumption that "populations tend to increase to, and beyond, the limits of the food available to them at any particular level of technology."[140]

The European colonization of the Americas resulted in the deaths of so many people it contributed to climatic change and temporary global cooling, according to scientists from University College London.[141][142] A century after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, some 90% of Indigenous Americans had perished from "wave after wave of disease", along with mass slavery and war, in what researchers have described as the "great dying".[143] According to one of the researchers, UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, the large death toll also boosted the economies of Europe: "the depopulation of the Americas may have inadvertently allowed the Europeans to dominate the world. It also allowed for the Industrial Revolution and for Europeans to continue that domination."[144]

Biological warfare

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When Old World diseases were first carried to the Americas at the end of the fifteenth century, they spread throughout the southern and northern hemispheres, leaving the Indigenous populations in near ruins.[131][145] No evidence has been discovered that the earliest Spanish colonists and missionaries deliberately attempted to infect the American Natives, and some efforts were made to limit the devastating effects of disease before it killed off what remained of their labor force (compelled to work under the encomienda system).[131][145] The cattle introduced by the Spanish contaminated various water reserves which Native Americans dug in the fields to accumulate rainwater. In response, the Franciscans and Dominicans created public fountains and aqueducts to guarantee access to drinking water.[21] But when the Franciscans lost their privileges in 1572, many of these fountains were no longer guarded and so deliberate well poisoning may have happened.[21] Although no proof of such poisoning has been found, some historians believe the decrease of the population correlates with the end of religious orders' control of the water.[21]

In following centuries, accusations and discussions of biological warfare were common. Well-documented accounts of incidents involving both threats and acts of deliberate infection are very rare, but may have occurred more frequently than scholars have previously acknowledged.[146][147] Many of the instances likely went unreported, and it is possible that documents relating to such acts were deliberately destroyed,[147] or sanitized.[148][149] By the middle of the 18th century, colonists had the knowledge and technology to attempt biological warfare with the smallpox virus. They well understood the concept of quarantine, and that contact with the sick could infect the healthy with smallpox, and those who survived the illness would not be infected again. Whether the threats were carried out, or how effective individual attempts were, is uncertain.[131][147][148]

One such threat was delivered by fur trader James McDougall, who is quoted as saying to a gathering of local chiefs, "You know the smallpox. Listen: I am the smallpox chief. In this bottle I have it confined. All I have to do is to pull the cork, send it forth among you, and you are dead men. But this is for my enemies and not my friends."[150] Likewise, another fur trader threatened Pawnee Indians that if they didn't agree to certain conditions, "he would let the smallpox out of a bottle and destroy them." The Reverend Isaac McCoy was quoted in his History of Baptist Indian Missions as saying that the white men had deliberately spread smallpox among the Indians of the southwest, including the Pawnee tribe, and the havoc it made was reported to General Clark and the Secretary of War.[150][151] Artist and writer George Catlin observed that Native Americans were also suspicious of vaccination, "They see white men urging the operation so earnestly they decide that it must be some new mode or trick of the pale face by which they hope to gain some new advantage over them."[152] So great was the distrust of the settlers that the Mandan chief Four Bears denounced the white man, whom he had previously treated as brothers, for deliberately bringing the disease to his people.[153][154][155]

During the siege of British-held Fort Pitt in the Seven Years' War, Colonel Henry Bouquet ordered his men to take smallpox-infested blankets from their hospital and gave them as gifts to two neutral Lenape Indian dignitaries during a peace settlement negotiation, according to the entry in the Captain's ledger, "To convey the Smallpox to the Indians".[148][156][157] In the following weeks, Sir Jeffrey Amherst conspired with Bouquet to "Extirpate this Execreble Race" of Native Americans, writing, "Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them." His Colonel agreed to try.[147][156]

Most scholars have asserted that the 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic was "started among the tribes of the upper Missouri River by failure to quarantine steamboats on the river",[150] and Captain Pratt of the St. Peter "was guilty of contributing to the deaths of thousands of innocent people. The law calls his offense criminal negligence. Yet in light of all the deaths, the almost complete annihilation of the Mandans, and the terrible suffering the region endured, the label criminal negligence is benign, hardly befitting an action that had such horrendous consequences."[154] However, some sources attribute the 1836–40 epidemic to the deliberate communication of smallpox to Native Americans, with historian Ann F. Ramenofsky writing, "Variola Major can be transmitted through contaminated articles such as clothing or blankets. In the nineteenth century, the U. S. Army sent contaminated blankets to Native Americans, especially Plains groups, to control the Indian problem."[158] In Brazil, well into the 20th century, deliberate infection attacks continued as Brazilian settlers and miners transported infections intentionally to the Native groups whose lands they coveted.[145]

Vaccination

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After Edward Jenner's 1796 demonstration that the smallpox vaccination worked, the technique became better known and smallpox became less deadly in the United States and elsewhere. Many colonists and Natives were vaccinated, although, in some cases, officials tried to vaccinate Natives only to discover that the disease was too widespread to stop. At other times, trade demands led to broken quarantines. In other cases, Natives refused vaccination because of suspicion of whites. The first international healthcare expedition in history was the Balmis Expedition which had the aim of vaccinating Indigenous peoples against smallpox all along the Spanish Empire in 1803. In 1831, government officials vaccinated the Yankton Dakota at Sioux Agency. The Santee Sioux refused vaccination and many died.[36]

Depopulation by European conquest

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War and violence

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Main article: American Indian Wars
Further information: Spanish colonization of the Americas, Arauco War, Chichimeca War, and Conquest of the Desert
An 1899 chromolithograph of U.S. cavalry pursuing American Indians, artist unknown.
An 1899 chromolithograph from the Werner Company of Akron, Ohio titled Custer Massacre at Big Horn, Montana – 25 June 1876.

While epidemic disease was a leading factor of the population decline of the American Indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare. According to demographer Russell Thornton, although many people died in wars over the centuries, and war sometimes contributed to the near extinction of certain tribes, warfare and death by other violent means was a comparatively minor cause of overall Native population decline.[159]

From the U.S. Bureau of the Census in 1894, wars between the government and the Indigenous peoples ranged over 40 in number over the previous 100 years. These wars cost the lives of approximately 19,000 white people, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians, including men, women, and children. They safely estimated that the number of Native people who were killed or wounded was actually around fifty percent more than what was recorded.[160]

There is some disagreement among scholars about how widespread warfare was in pre-Columbian America,[161] but there is general agreement that war became deadlier after the arrival of the Europeans and their firearms.[citation needed] The South or Central American infrastructure allowed for thousands of European conquistadors and tens of thousands of their Indian auxiliaries to attack the dominant Indigenous civilization. Empires such as the Incas depended on a highly centralized administration for the distribution of resources. Disruption caused by the war and the colonization hampered the traditional economy, and possibly led to shortages of food and materials.[162] Across the western hemisphere, war with various Native American civilizations constituted alliances based out of both necessity or economic prosperity and, resulted in mass-scale intertribal warfare.[163] European colonization in the North American continent also contributed to a number of wars between Native Americans, who fought over which of them should have first access to new technology and weaponry—like in the Beaver Wars.[164]

Genocides

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Main article: Genocide of indigenous peoples § Indigenous peoples of the Americas (pre-1948)

According to the Cambridge World History, the Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, and the Cambridge World History of Genocide, colonial policies in some cases included the deliberate genocide of indigenous peoples in North America.[165][166][167] According to the Cambridge World History of Genocide, Spanish colonization of the Americas also included genocidal massacres.[168]

According to Adam Jones, genocidal methods included the following:

  • Genocidal massacres
  • Biological warfare, using pathogens (especially smallpox and plague) to which the indigenous peoples had no resistance
  • Spreading of disease via the 'reduction' of Indians to densely crowded and unhygienic settlements
  • Slavery and forced/indentured labor, especially, though not exclusively, in Latin America, in conditions often rivaling those of Nazi concentration camps
  • Mass population removals to barren 'reservations,' sometimes involving death marches en route, and generally leading to widespread mortality and population collapse upon arrival
  • Deliberate starvation and famine, exacerbated by destruction and occupation of the native land base and food resources
  • Forced education of indigenous children in White-run schools ...[169]

Exploitation

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Main article: European enslavement of Indigenous Americans
D'Albertis Castle, Genoa, Museum of World Cultures

Some Spaniards objected to the encomienda system of labor, notably Bartolomé de las Casas, who insisted that the Indigenous people were humans with souls and rights. Because of many revolts and military encounters, Emperor Charles V helped relieve the strain on both the Native laborers and the Spanish vanguards probing the Caribana for military and diplomatic purposes.[170] Later on New Laws were promulgated in Spain in 1542 to protect isolated Native, but the abuses in the Americas were never entirely or permanently abolished. The Spanish also employed the pre-Columbian draft system called the mita,[171] and treated their subjects as something between slaves and serfs. Serfs stayed to work the land; slaves were exported to the mines, where large numbers of them died. In other areas the Spaniards replaced the ruling Aztecs and Incas and divided the conquered lands among themselves ruling as the new feudal lords with often, but unsuccessful lobbying to the viceroys of the Spanish crown to pay Tlaxcalan war demnities. The infamous Bandeirantes from São Paulo, adventurers mostly of mixed Portuguese and Native ancestry, penetrated steadily westward in their search for Indian slaves. Serfdom existed as such in parts of Latin America well into the 19th century, past independence.[172] Historian Andrés Reséndez argues that even though the Spanish were aware of the spread of smallpox, they made no mention of it until 1519, a quarter century after Columbus arrived in Hispaniola.[173] Instead he contends that enslavement in gold and silver mines was the primary reason why the Native American population of Hispaniola dropped so significantly.[172][173] and that even though disease was a factor, the Native population would have rebounded the same way Europeans did following the Black Death if it were not for the constant enslavement they were subject to.[173] He further contends that enslavement of Native Americans was in fact the primary cause of their depopulation in Spanish territories;[173] that the majority of Indians enslaved were women and children compared to the enslavement of Africans which mostly targeted adult males and in turn they were sold at a 50% to 60% higher price,[174] and that 2,462,000 to 4,985,000 Amerindians were enslaved between Columbus's arrival and 1900.[175][174]

Massacres

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Main article: List of Indian massacres in North America
See also: Taíno genocide, Native American genocide in the United States, California genocide, and Round Valley Settler Massacres of 1856–1859
Mass grave of Lakota dead after the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre.
Conquest of Mexico [citation needed]
  • The Pequot War in early New England.
  • In mid-19th century Argentina, post-independence leaders Juan Manuel de Rosas and Julio Argentino Roca engaged in what they presented as a "Conquest of the Desert" against the Natives of the Argentinian interior, leaving over 1,300 Indigenous dead.[176][177]
  • While some California tribes were settled on reservations, others were hunted down and massacred by 19th century American settlers. It is estimated that at least 9,400 to 16,000 California Indians were killed by non-Indians, mostly occurring in more than 370 massacres (defined as the "intentional killing of five or more disarmed combatants or largely unarmed noncombatants, including women, children, and prisoners, whether in the context of a battle or otherwise").[178][179]

Displacement and disruption

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Main articles: Indian removal and Trail of Tears

Throughout history, Indigenous people have been subjected to the repeated and forced removal from their land. Beginning in the 1830s, there was the relocation of an estimated 100,000 Indigenous people in the United States called the "Trail of Tears".[180] The tribes affected by this specific removal were the Five Civilized Tribes: The Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole. The treaty of New Echota,[181] was enacted, which stated that the United States "would give Cherokee land west of the Mississippi in exchange for $5,000,000".[180] According to Jeffrey Ostler, "Of the 80,000 Native people who were forced west from 1830 into the 1850s, between 12,000 and 17,000 perished." Ostler states that "the large majority died of interrelated factors of starvation, exposure and disease".[182]

In addition to the removal of the Southern Tribes, there were multiple other removals of Northern Tribes also known as "Trails of Tears." For example, "In the free labor states of the North, federal and state officials, supported by farmers, speculators and business interests, evicted Shawnees, Delawares, Senecas, Potawatomis, Miamis, Wyandots, Ho-Chunks, Ojibwes, Sauks and Meskwakis." These Nations were moved West of the Mississippi into what is now known as Eastern Kansas, and numbered 17,000 on arrival. According to Ostler, "by 1860, their numbers had been cut in half" because of low fertility, high infant mortality, and increased disease caused by conditions such as polluted drinking water, few resources, and social stress.[182]

Ostler also writes that the areas that Northern tribes were removed to were already inhabited: "The areas west of the Mississippi River were home to other Indigenous nations—Osages, Kanzas, Omahas, Ioways, Otoes and Missourias. To make room for thousands of people from the East, the government dispossessed these nations of much their lands." Ostler writes that when Northern Nations were moved onto their landing 1840, "The combined population of these western nations was 9,000 ... 20 years later, it had fallen to 6,000."[182]

Later apologies by government officials

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See also: Bureau of Indian Affairs and Canadian Indian residential school system § Canadian government

On 8 September 2000, the head of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) formally apologized for the agency's participation in the ethnic cleansing of Western tribes.[183][184][185] In a speech before representatives of Native American peoples in June 2019, California governor Gavin Newsom apologized for the "California Genocide." Newsom said, "That's what it was, a genocide. No other way to describe it. And that's the way it needs to be described in the history books."[186]

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Notes

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  1. ^ Extrapolated from 30,000 warriors (× 5) in year 1762, according to James Gorrell. Such high population appears to be confirmed by French Jesuits who visited forty Sioux villages in 1660 and found 5,000 men only in five of them (on average 1,000 men per village). Almost a century after Gorrell's estimate, in 1841, George Catlin estimated the Sioux as up to 50,000 people, and mentioned that they had just lost approx. 8,000 dead to smallpox a few years prior.
  2. ^ Extrapolated from 25,000 warriors (x5) in year 1718, according to Le Page du Pratz.
  3. ^ They had 60 towns and 20,000 warriors. One of their towns – Cahokia – contained 400 lodges and was inhabited by 1,800 warriors.
  4. ^ "The epidemic of 1837–38 was disastrous, approx. 15,000 Blackfeet people fell victim to the disease."
  5. ^ Five Nations, on average 14,000 people per nation around year 1690 according to L. A. de Lahontan. And in 1609 the Iroquois population was estimated by Marc Lescarbot at 8,000 warriors (that is around 40,000 people). On the contrary Lewis H. Morgan in his 1851 book estimated the Iroquois population in year 1650 at only 25,000 people – including 10,000 Seneca, 5,000 Mohawk, 4,000 Onondaga, 3,000 Oneida and 3,000 Cayuga. The Seneca were also estimated at 13,000 people in year 1672 and 15,000 in year 1687. Not all of Iroquois 226 villages were occupied at the same time as the Iroquois moved villages every five to twenty years.
  6. ^ They had approx. 7 pueblos (towns), one of which – Oraibi (possibly the largest of all) – had 14,000 inhabitants before an epidemic.
  7. ^ It was also reported they had 25–32 towns or villages.
  8. ^ Extrapolated from 8,000 warriors × 5.
  9. ^ 38 villages (on average 130–150 lodges/cabins per village) with 7,600 warriors x 5 = 38,000 total population, not including the Arikara.
  10. ^ They had 6,000 warriors in 1730–35 (according to J. Adair) and also 6,000 warriors in 1738, but just 5,000 in 1740 (according to Ga. Hist. Coll., II). Colonel James Oglethorpe confirms that they had 5,000 warriors in 1739 (Ga. Coll. Rec., V). Also according to Ga. Coll. Rec., V an epidemic reduced them "by almost one-half" in 1738, but this source doesn't specify how numerous they were before the epidemic. Perhaps this source exaggerates the casualties caused by that epidemic, and in fact it killed just around 1,000 warriors.
  11. ^ They had approx. 6,000 warriors and 24 towns.
  12. ^ They inhabited up to 11 pueblos (towns).
  13. ^ They had approx. 4,000 warriors and ca. 40 villages.
  14. ^ Later an epidemic ravaged them in 1618.
  15. ^ They inhabited up to 7 pueblos (towns).
  16. ^ Extrapolated from 3,000 warriors × 5.

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