Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1875 — The American Indians. [ARTICLE]

The American Indians.

Six great families of nations are recognized among the aboriginal inhabitants of the region of the Rocky Mountains,, and a hasty count of the summaries given in the books shows that more than 700 tribes are specifically mentioned, without including long lists of tribes of whom nothing more than the name appears to be known and which may Be mythical or described under some other designation. Lying along the Arctic coast are the Hyperboreans; between the fifty-fifth and forty-second parallels are the Columbians, after whom came the California and Great Basin Indians, the New Mexicans, the wild tribes of Mexico and finally the wild tribes of Central America. If the strength of the Indians under control of our Government is correctly estimated at 800,000 it is hardly possible that the entire savage population of the North American continent can exceed half a million.— Oaiamy.