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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.<ref>Thornton, pp. xvii, 36.</ref>
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
While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Snow |first=D. R. |title=Microchronology and Demographic Evidence Relating to the Size of Pre-Columbian North American Indian Populations |journal=Science |date=16 June 1995 |volume=268 |issue=5217 |pages=1601–1604 |doi=10.1126/science.268.5217.1601 |pmid=17754613 |bibcode=1995Sci...268.1601S |s2cid=8512954}}</ref> estimates range from 3.8 million, as mentioned above, to 7 million<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9iQYSQ9y60MC |title=American Indian holocaust and survival: a population history since 1492 |last=Thornton |first=Russell |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-8061-2220-5 |pages=26–32}}</ref> people to a high of 18 million.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Their Number Become Thinned: Native American Dynamics in Eastern North America |last=Dobyns |first=Henry |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |year=1983 |location=Knoxville}}</ref> Scholars vary on the estimated size of the [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Indigenous population]] in [[Territorial evolution of Canada|what is now Canada]] prior to colonization and on the effects of [[European colonization of the Americas|European contact]].<ref name="HainesSteckelau">{{cite book|author1=Michael R. Haines|author2=Richard H. Steckel|title=A Population History of North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPdgiysIVcgC&pg=PA12|year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-49666-7|page=12}}</ref> During the late 15th century is estimated to have been between 200,000<ref name="NorthcottWilson2008"/> and two million,<ref name="HainesSteckel2000">{{cite book|author1=Michael R. Haines|author2=Richard H. Steckel|title=A Population History of North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPdgiysIVcgC&pg=PA13|year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-49666-7|page=13}}</ref> with a figure of 500,000 currently accepted by Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Health.<ref name="BaileySturtevant2008">{{cite book|author1=Garrick Alan Bailey|author2=William C ... Sturtevant|author3=Smithsonian Institution (U S )|title=Handbook of North American Indians: Indians in Contemporary Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1IwUbZqjTUC&pg=PA285|year=2008|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-080388-8|page=285}}</ref> Although not without conflict, [[Euro-Canadian|European Canadians]]' early interactions with [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] and [[Inuit]] populations were relatively peaceful.<ref name="Preston2009a">{{cite book|author=David L. Preston|title=The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-9N6-6UCnoC&pg=PA43|year=2009|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-2549-7|pages=43–44}}</ref> However repeated outbreaks of European [[infectious disease]]s such as [[influenza]], [[measles]] and [[smallpox]] (to which they had no natural immunity),<ref name="DeanMatthews1998sw">{{cite book|author1=William G. Dean|author2=Geoffrey J. Matthews|title=Concise Historical Atlas of Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dw39BoD0-6cC&pg=PA2|year=1998|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-4203-3|page=2}}</ref> combined with other effects of European contact, resulted in a twenty-five percent to eighty percent Indigenous population decrease post-contact.<ref name="NorthcottWilson2008">{{cite book|author1=Herbert C. Northcott|author2=Donna Marie Wilson|title=Dying And Death in Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_pMVs53mzQC&pg=PA25|year=2008|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-55111-873-4|pages=25–27}}</ref> Roland G Robertson suggests that during the late 1630s, smallpox killed over half of the [[Wyandot people|Wyandot (Huron)]], who controlled most of the early [[North American fur trade]] in the area of [[New France]].<ref name="Robertson2001">{{cite book|author=R. G. Robertson|title=Rotting Face: Smallpox and the American Indian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-EoEm_OO8RgC|year=2001|publisher=University of Nebraska|isbn=978-0-87004-497-7}}</ref> 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.<ref name=aboriginal>{{cite web|url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4151278-eng.htm |title=Censuses of Canada 1665 to 1871: Aboriginal peoples |publisher=Statistics Canada |year=2008 |access-date=2 February 2014}}</ref> From 2006 to 2016, the Indigenous population has grown by 42.5 percent, four times the national rate.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/171025/dq171025a-eng.htm |title=The Daily — Aboriginal peoples in Canada: Key results from the 2016 Census |first=Statistics Canada |last=Government of Canada |date=October 25, 2017 |website=www150.statcan.gc.ca}}</ref> According to the [[2011 Canadian census]], Indigenous peoples ([[First Nations in Canada|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.<ref name=firstnations>{{cite web|title=Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: First Nations People, Métis and Inuit|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-011-x/99-011-x2011001-eng.cfm|publisher=Statistics Canada|year=2012}}</ref>
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|2009
|2.5
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|–
|–
|–
|–
|–
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|Milner<ref name=":13">{{Cite journal |last1=Milner |first1=George R. |last2=Chaplin |first2=George |date=2010 |title=Eastern North American Population at ca. A.D. 1500 |url=https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.75.4.707 |journal=American Antiquity |language=en |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=720 |doi=10.7183/0002-7316.75.4.707 |issn=0002-7316}}</ref>
|2010
|3.8
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=== Estimations by tribe ===
Population size for Native American tribes is 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.<ref name="Krzywicki">{{Cite book |last=Krzywicki |first=Ludwik |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4381154&view=1up&seq=346&skin=2021 |title=Primitive society and its vital statistics |publisher=Macmillan |year=1934 |series=Publications of the Polish Sociological Institute |location=London |pages=318–543}}</ref> 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.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+{{nowrap|Highest available estimates: probable population peaks}}<ref name="Krzywicki" />
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!scope="row"| 2
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Choctaw]] {{refn|Extrapolated from 25,000 warriors (x5) in year 1718, according to Le Page du Pratz.|group=Note}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krzywicki |first=Ludwik |url=https://dn790004.ca.archive.org/0/items/b29980112/b29980112.pdf |title=Primitive society and its vital statistics |publisher=Macmillan |year=1934 |series=Publications of the Polish Sociological Institute |location=London |pages=505–506}}</ref>
|125,000
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|[[Shoshone]]
|60,000
|1820
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|(number without 20,000 [[Eastern Shoshone|East Shoshone]])
|[[Jedidiah
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!4b
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|[[Eastern Shoshone]]
|20,000
|1820
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|
|[[Jedidiah
|-
!5
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!6b
|Great Plains
|[[Canadian Prairies|Prairies]], Canada
|[[Blackfoot Confederacy|Blackfoot]]
|37,500 – 30,000 (1841)
|1836
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|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
|[[Muscogee|Creek]] (Muscogee) including Hitchiti
|50,000
|1794
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!11
|NE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Shawnee]]
|50,000 – 15,000 (1702)
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|Southwest
|Mexican Cession
|[[Hopi-Tewa|Pueblo Tano/Maguas]]
|40,000
|1584
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|1700
|
|(ca. 3/4 in the
|[[George Bird Grinnell]]
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|1860
|
|(half in the
|[[Emmanuel Domenech]]<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Domenech |first=Emmanuel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA16 |title=Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America |publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts |year=1860 |volume=2 |location=London |pages=16, 47–48}}</ref>
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|1860
|
|(half in the
|[[Emmanuel Domenech]]<ref name=":4" />
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|1823
|15+
|(ca. half in the
|[[William H. Keating|W. H. Keating]] and [[Giacomo Beltrami|G. C. Beltrami]]
|-
!21b
|Great Plains
|[[Canadian Prairies|Prairies]], Canada
|[[Assiniboine]] in Canada
|17,500
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! scope="row" | 25
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Cherokee]] {{refn|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.|group=Note}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krzywicki |first=Ludwik |url=https://dn790004.ca.archive.org/0/items/b29980112/b29980112.pdf |title=Primitive society and its vital statistics |publisher=Macmillan |year=1934 |series=Publications of the Polish Sociological Institute |location=London |pages=500–503}}</ref>
|30,000
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!33f
|Great Plains
|[[Canadian Prairies|Prairies]], Canada
|[[Plains Cree language|Plains Cree]]
|7,000
|1853
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!35
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Mabila]] (Mobile)
|25,000
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|1,000 lodges just among the Lower Chinook
|[[James Mooney]]<ref>{{Cite
|-
!37
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!38
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Chickasaw]]
|20,000
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|Great Plains
|Louisiana Purchase
|[[Gros Ventre|Atsina]] (Gros Ventre)
|16,800
|1837
|
|Still reported at 16,800 in 1841<ref>{{Cite web |title=Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs", Office of Indian Affairs, November 25, 1841. |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A2PBGWKCDCUSUE8A/full/AIHAF7ELMGXYOF84}}</ref>
|Indian Affairs 1837
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|15,000
|1600
|
|
|[[Daniel Gookin]] and J. R. Swanton
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|
|[[Henry Bouquet|H. Bouquet]] and J. Buchanan
|-
!60
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|15,000
|1540
|1+
|
|Relacion del Suceso<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jenkins |first=Myra Ellen |date=1966 |title=Taos Pueblo and Its Neighbors, 1540–1847 |url=https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1933&context=nmhr |journal=New Mexico Historical Review |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=86}}</ref>
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|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
|[[Kwakiutl First Nation|Kwakiutl]] tribes excluding [[Haisla people|Haisla]]
|14,500
|1780
|
|
|Herbert C. Taylor<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Herbert C. |title=Aboriginal Populations of the Lower Northwest Coast |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40487861 |journal=The Pacific Northwest Quarterly |date=1963 |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=163 |jstor=40487861 |via=JSTOR}}</ref>
|-
!68
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
|[[Nuu-chah-nulth|Nootka]] (Nutka) tribes
|14,000
|1780
|
|
|Herbert C. Taylor<ref name=":10" />
|-
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|1584
|5+
|5 large
|[[Antonio de Espejo]]
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|SE Woodlands
|Florida Purchase
|[[Seminole]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.
|10,000
|1836
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|Also known as Laurentians
|Gary Warrick & Louis Lesage<ref>{{Cite journal |
|-
!88
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|Great Plains
|Louisiana Purchase
|[[Kaw people|Kansa]] (Kaw)
|8,000
|1764
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!101
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
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|[[Samuel Parker (missionary)|Samuel Parker]]
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!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
|[[Tsimshian]] of British
|7,000
|1780
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|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Southwest
|Mexican Cession
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|Indian Affairs 1863<ref>[https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ABQVZUYJSRAM2G83 Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for the year 1863]</ref>
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!
|NE Woodlands
|[[Quebec]], Canada
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|[[Emmanuel Domenech]]
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!
|NE Woodlands
|Old Northwest
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|Wisconsin Hist. Coll., XII
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!
|NE Woodlands
|Old Northwest
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|[[Peter Buell Porter]] & [[
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|Old Northwest
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|Cutting Marsh<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-08-03 |title=Marsh, Cutting (1800-1873) |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS1629 |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=Wisconsin Historical Society |language=en}}</ref> in Wisconsin Hist. Coll., XV
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!
|Southwest
|Mexican Cession
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|[[Alonso de Benavides]]
|-
!
|Southwest
|Mexican Cession
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|6,000
|1584
|1+
|500+ houses
|[[Antonio de Espejo]]
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!
|NE Woodlands
|Old Northwest
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|N. Y. Col. Dcts., IX
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
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|Fidalgo D'Elvas<ref>[http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/d'elvas/d'elvas--narrative_english.html A Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida, by a Gentleman of Elvas, translated from the Portuguese by Richard Hackluyt, in 1609.]</ref>
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!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
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|A. N. Armstrong<ref name="armstrong">[https://archive.org/details/cihm_16710/page/n4/mode/1up?ref=ol&view=theater&q=chinook+ A. N. Armstrong]</ref>
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|Middle Colonies
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|[[John R. Swanton|J. R. Swanton]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
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|[[James Mooney]] and [[James Owen Dorsey]]
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!
|NE Woodlands
|Old Northwest
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|
|[[Jedidiah
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
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|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
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|
|[[Jedidiah
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!
|Southwest
|Mexican Cession
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|A. F. Bandelier, Ten Kate
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!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Quebec]], Canada
Line 1,483:
|[[James Mooney]] and J. R. Swanton
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!
|Great Plains
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 1,493:
|Z. M. Pike
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!
|NE Woodlands
|Middle Colonies
Line 1,503:
|[[James Mooney]] and J. R. Swanton
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!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
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|Pocumtuc History<ref>[http://www.dickshovel.com/pocu.html Pocumtuc History]</ref>
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
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|[[James Teit]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Teit |first=James |url=https://ia601302.us.archive.org/23/items/cihm_16242/cihm_16242.pdf |title=The Thompson Indians of British Columbia |year=1900 |pages=175}}</ref> & [[Alexander Caulfield Anderson|A. C. Anderson]]
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!
|Northwest Plateau
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
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|[[Alexander Caulfield Anderson|A. C. Anderson]] and [[James Mooney|J. Mooney]]
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!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
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|[[Paul Kane]]
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!
|SE Woodlands
|Texas Annexation
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|[[Herbert Eugene Bolton]]
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!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
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|[[John R. Jewitt]]
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!
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Yuchi]] (Uchee)
|5,000 – 2,500 (in 1777)
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|[[William Bartram]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina">[https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Native_Americans/home.html Carolina - The Native Americans]</ref>
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!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[District of Mackenzie]], Canada
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|[[James Mooney]]
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!
|Northwest Plateau
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
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|[[Adrien-Gabriel Morice|A. G. Morice]] and [[Hudson's Bay Company|HBC]] employees
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!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
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|
|Extinct native
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!
|NE Woodlands
|Old Northwest
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|J. R. Swanton<ref>{{Cite book |last=Swanton |first=John R. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015025854&view=1up&seq=68 |title=The Indian Tribes of North America |series=Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin145 |publisher=Bureau of American Ethnology |year=1953 |location=Washington |page=56}}</ref>
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!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
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|Capers Jones<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Capers |title=The History and Future of Narragansett Bay |publisher=Universal Publishers |year=2006 |location=Boca Raton, Florida}}</ref>
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 1,633:
|[[Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe|Benard de La Harpe]]
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 1,643:
|[[James Mooney]] and [[James Teit|J. Teit]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Teit |first=James |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521133707/https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/36/v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/mem/M04Pt05.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=The Lillooet Indians |year=1906 |pages=199}}</ref>
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!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
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|Indian Affairs 1868
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 1,663:
|S. R. Grenville
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!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 1,673:
|A. N. Armstrong<ref name="armstrong" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 1,682:
|
|[[John R. Swanton|J. R. Swanton]]
|-
!140
|Subarctic & Arctic
|Canada
|[[Gwichʼin|Kutchin]] (Loucheux)
|4,000
|1871
|
|
|Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871<ref name=":11" />
|-
!141
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!142
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Nunatsiavut]], [[Labrador]], Canada
|Labrador Inuit
|3,600
|1600
|
|
|[[James Mooney|J. Mooney]] & [[Alfred Kroeber|Kroeber]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kroeber |first=Alfred Louis |url=https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp038-001-002.pdf |title=Cultural and natural areas of Native North America |publisher=University of California Press |year=1939 |location=Berkeley |pages=134}}</ref>
|-
!143
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 1,703 ⟶ 1,723:
|Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Acolapissa]]
|3,500
Line 1,713 ⟶ 1,733:
|Acolapissa History<ref>[http://www.dickshovel.com/acol.html Acolapissa History]</ref>
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 1,723 ⟶ 1,743:
|[[Isaac Stevens|Isaac Ingalls Stevens]]
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 1,733 ⟶ 1,753:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Southwest
|Mexican Cession
Line 1,743 ⟶ 1,763:
|[[Amiel Weeks Whipple]]
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!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 1,753 ⟶ 1,773:
|HBC Indian Census 1839
|-
!
|Great Plains
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 1,761 ⟶ 1,781:
|
|
|[[Jedidiah
|-
!150
Line 1,795 ⟶ 1,805:
!152
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Alabama people|Alibamu]]
|3,000
Line 1,809 ⟶ 1,819:
|3,000
|1660
|10
|
|J. Barber in J. Chase and J. R. Swanton
|-
!154
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|NE Woodlands
|New England
|Shawomets & Cowsetts (Cowesets)
|3,000
|1500
Line 1,915 ⟶ 1,925:
!164
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Taposa]] and Ibitoupa
|3,000
Line 1,989 ⟶ 1,999:
|3,000
|1680
|1+
|
|[[Agustín de Vetancurt]]
Line 2,096 ⟶ 2,106:
|NE Woodlands
|Middle Colonies
|Manhasset (Manhanset)
|2,500
|1500
Line 2,115 ⟶ 2,125:
!184
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Mosopelea|Ofo]], [[Koroa]] & Tioux (Tiou)
|2,450
Line 2,131 ⟶ 2,141:
|3
|
|[[Jedidiah
|-
!186
Line 2,145 ⟶ 2,155:
!187
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Tunica people|Tunica]]
|2,250
Line 2,171 ⟶ 2,181:
|
|
|[[Thomas L. McKenney|McKenney]]
|-
!190
Line 2,191 ⟶ 2,201:
|10
|
|[[Jedidiah
|-
!192
Line 2,215 ⟶ 2,225:
!194
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Yazoo people|Yazoo]]
|2,000+
Line 2,321 ⟶ 2,331:
|
|
|Extinct native
|-
!205
Line 2,331 ⟶ 2,341:
|
|
|Extinct native
|-
!206
Line 2,365 ⟶ 2,375:
!209
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Chakchiuma]]
|2,000
Line 2,434 ⟶ 2,444:
|-
!216
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Ungava Peninsula]], [[Quebec]], Canada
Line 2,453:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 2,463:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 2,473:
|[[James Owen Dorsey]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 2,483:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 2,493:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
Line 2,503:
|Wendell
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
|[[Westo]] and Stono
|1,600
|1600
|
|
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[District of Mackenzie]], Canada
Line 2,523:
|[[Émile Petitot|Emile Petitot]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 2,533:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Great Plains
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 2,543:
|[[William Clark]]
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 2,553:
|[[George Gibbs (ethnologist)|George Gibbs]]
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 2,563:
|G. Hines
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Yukon]], Canada
Line 2,573:
|[[John Richardson (naturalist)|John Richardson]]
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
Line 2,583:
|E. Stiles
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 2,593:
|Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 2,603:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 2,613:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Great Basin
|Mexican Cession
Line 2,623:
|[[Alfred Kroeber|A. L. Kroeber]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 2,633:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|Tohome
|1,500
Line 2,643:
|[[Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville|Pierre d'Iberville]]
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
Line 2,649:
|1,500
|1600
|8
|
|[[James Mooney]] and J. R. Swanton
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 2,662:
|
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!238
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[District of Mackenzie]], Canada
|Mauvais Monde (Etquaotinne)
|1,500
|1871
|
|Also spelled Tsethaottine
|Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871<ref name=":11">{{Cite book |url=https://ia800602.us.archive.org/3/items/1871981871FV41873engfra/StatisticsCanada1871981871FV41873engfra.pdf |title=Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871 |publisher=I. B. Taylor |year=1876 |volume=IV |location=Ottawa |pages=68}}</ref>
|-
!239
Line 2,675 ⟶ 2,685:
!240
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[
|[[Dane-zaa|Beaver]] (Tsattine)
|1,250
|1670
|
|Also known as Dane-zaa
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
Line 2,695 ⟶ 2,705:
!242
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Houma people|Houma]]
|1,225
Line 2,745 ⟶ 2,755:
!247
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Taensa]]
|1,200
Line 2,791 ⟶ 2,801:
|21
|
|[[Jedidiah
|-
!252
Line 2,906 ⟶ 2,916:
|SE Woodlands
|Florida Purchase
|[[Jaega|Jeaga]] & [[Mayaimi]] (Guacata)
|1,000
|1650
Line 2,935 ⟶ 2,945:
!266
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Biloxi people|Biloxi]]/[[Pascagoula]]/Moctobi
|1,000
Line 3,005 ⟶ 3,015:
!273
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|Dulchioni
|1,000
Line 3,124 ⟶ 3,134:
|-
!285
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Coushatta]] (Koasati)
|750
|1760
|
|
|[[John R. Swanton]]
|-
!286
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,133 ⟶ 3,153:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Ontario]], Canada
Line 3,143 ⟶ 3,163:
|[[Michel Maray de La Chauvignerie|Michel de La Chauvignerie]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,153 ⟶ 3,173:
|W. B. Gosnell
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,163 ⟶ 3,183:
|Indian Affairs 1862
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,173 ⟶ 3,193:
|[[Louis-Narcisse Baudry Des Lozieres|Baudry de Lozieres]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Northwest Territories]], Canada
Line 3,183 ⟶ 3,203:
|[[Émile Petitot|Emile Petitot]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,193 ⟶ 3,213:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,203 ⟶ 3,223:
|John Lawson, "History of Carolina"
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,213 ⟶ 3,233:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,223 ⟶ 3,243:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|Southwest
|Mexican Cession
Line 3,233 ⟶ 3,253:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
Line 3,243 ⟶ 3,263:
|[[John William De Forest]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Apalachicola Province|Apalachicola]]
|525
|1738
|2
|(105 warriors in two towns)
|[[John R. Swanton]]
|-
!299
|NE Woodlands
|New England
Line 3,253 ⟶ 3,283:
|Capers Jones<ref name=":2" />
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 3,263 ⟶ 3,293:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
Line 3,273 ⟶ 3,303:
|[[John William De Forest]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,283 ⟶ 3,313:
|Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,293 ⟶ 3,323:
|Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,303 ⟶ 3,333:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,313 ⟶ 3,343:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,323 ⟶ 3,353:
|[[James Mooney]] & Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,333 ⟶ 3,363:
|Myron Eells
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,343 ⟶ 3,373:
|[[James Owen Dorsey]] and [[Ludwik Krzywicki]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,353 ⟶ 3,383:
|[[Ludwik Krzywicki]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,363 ⟶ 3,393:
|[[James Owen Dorsey]] and [[Ludwik Krzywicki]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,373 ⟶ 3,403:
|[[William Strachey]] and [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,383 ⟶ 3,413:
|[[William Strachey]] and [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|[[Quebec]], Canada
Line 3,393 ⟶ 3,423:
|[[Ludwik Krzywicki]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,403 ⟶ 3,433:
|[[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Yukon]], Canada
Line 3,413 ⟶ 3,443:
|[[Ludwik Krzywicki]]
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,423 ⟶ 3,453:
|[[Ludwik Krzywicki]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,433 ⟶ 3,463:
|[[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]
|-
!
|Great Plains
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,443 ⟶ 3,473:
|[[Peter Buell Porter]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,453 ⟶ 3,483:
|[[Ludwik Krzywicki]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,463 ⟶ 3,493:
|[[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]
|-
!
|Great Plains
|Texas Annexation
Line 3,473 ⟶ 3,503:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,483 ⟶ 3,513:
|[[Hall J. Kelley]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,493 ⟶ 3,523:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,503 ⟶ 3,533:
|HBC Indian Census 1839
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,513 ⟶ 3,543:
|[[Isaac Stevens|Isaac Ingalls Stevens]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,523 ⟶ 3,553:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,533 ⟶ 3,563:
|F. W. Hodge
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 3,543 ⟶ 3,573:
|W. Robertson
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,553 ⟶ 3,583:
|Hall J. Kelley
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|New England
Line 3,563 ⟶ 3,593:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,573 ⟶ 3,603:
|[[John R. Swanton|J. R. Swanton]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,583 ⟶ 3,613:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,603 ⟶ 3,623:
|[[John Ross Browne]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,613 ⟶ 3,633:
|HBC Indian Census 1839
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,623 ⟶ 3,643:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,633 ⟶ 3,653:
|HBC Indian Census 1839
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,643 ⟶ 3,663:
|R. Mayne
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,653 ⟶ 3,673:
|[[Joseph Lane]]
|-
!
|Great Plains
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,663 ⟶ 3,683:
|H. M. Brackenridge
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[Nunavut]], Canada
Line 3,673 ⟶ 3,693:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,683 ⟶ 3,703:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,693 ⟶ 3,713:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[District of Mackenzie]], Canada
Line 3,703 ⟶ 3,723:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,713 ⟶ 3,733:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|[[Tawasa people|Tawasa]]
|300
|1792
|
|
|[[John R. Swanton]]
|-
!346
|NE Woodlands
|Middle Colonies
Line 3,721 ⟶ 3,751:
|
|They lived in Delaware and Maryland
|Maryland at a glance: Native Americans<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-17 |title=Native Americans, Maryland |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/native/html/01native.html |access-date=2024-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817141756/https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/native/html/01native.html |
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 3,733 ⟶ 3,763:
|Indian Affairs 1858
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,743 ⟶ 3,773:
|[[Louis-Narcisse Baudry Des Lozieres|Baudry de Lozieres]]
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|[[District of Mackenzie]], Canada
Line 3,753 ⟶ 3,783:
|[[John R. Swanton]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|Naniaba
|250
Line 3,763 ⟶ 3,793:
|Regis de Rouillet
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 3,773 ⟶ 3,803:
|W. Robertson
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 3,783 ⟶ 3,813:
|J. W. P. Huntington
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,793 ⟶ 3,823:
|[[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville|Bienville]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,803 ⟶ 3,833:
|[[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,813 ⟶ 3,843:
|[[Lewis and Clark Expedition|Lewis and Clark]]
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,821 ⟶ 3,851:
|
|
|Extinct native
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,833 ⟶ 3,863:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,843 ⟶ 3,873:
|R. Evelin
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Louisiana Purchase
Line 3,853 ⟶ 3,883:
|[[Louis-Narcisse Baudry Des Lozieres|Baudry de Lozieres]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Southern Colonies
Line 3,863 ⟶ 3,893:
|Carolina - The Native Americans<ref name="carolina" />
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,873 ⟶ 3,903:
|HBC Indian Census 1839
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|[[Ontario]], Canada
Line 3,883 ⟶ 3,913:
|[[Jérôme Lalemant|J. Lalemant]]
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,893 ⟶ 3,923:
|[[Franz Boas]] & [[James Mooney|J. Mooney]]
|-
!
|Great Basin
|Mexican Cession
Line 3,903 ⟶ 3,933:
|[[James Mooney]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|[[British Columbia]], Canada
Line 3,913 ⟶ 3,943:
|Canadian Indian Affairs
|-
!
|Northwest Plateau
|Oregon Country
Line 3,923 ⟶ 3,953:
|[[Joseph Lane]]
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Texas Annexation
Line 3,933 ⟶ 3,963:
|[[Herbert Eugene Bolton|H. E. Bolton]]
|-
!
|Northwest Coast
|Oregon Country
Line 3,943 ⟶ 3,973:
|Indian Affairs 1875
|-
!
|NE Woodlands
|Old Northwest
Line 3,953 ⟶ 3,983:
|N. Y. Col. Dcts., VI. 622
|-
!
|SE Woodlands
|Old Southwest
|Choula
|40
Line 3,963 ⟶ 3,993:
|[[Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe|Benard de La Harpe]]
|-
!
|California
|Mexican Cession
Line 3,971 ⟶ 4,001:
|
|
|[[Sherburne F. Cook|Cook]], Jones & Codding,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Terry L. |last2=Codding |first2=Brian F. |title=Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management |chapter=The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management |series=Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation |date=2019 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-15800-2_12 |volume=Global Perspectives on Long Term
|-
!
|Subarctic & Arctic
|Alaska
Line 3,983 ⟶ 4,013:
|Steve Langdon<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sandberg |first=Eric |url=https://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/pop/estimates/pub/pophistory.pdf |title=A history of Alaska population settlement |publisher=Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development |year=2013 |pages=4–6}}</ref>
|}
The total peak population size only for the tribes listed in this table is 3,
== Pre-Columbian Americas ==
Line 4,043 ⟶ 4,073:
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.<ref>War not a major cause : Thornton, pp. 47–49.</ref>
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
There is some disagreement among scholars about how widespread warfare was in pre-Columbian America,<ref>{{cite book |author=W. D. Rubinstein |title=Genocide: A History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMMAk4VwLLwC&pg=PA12 |year=2004 |publisher=Pearson Education |isbn=978-0-582-50601-5 |page=12}}</ref> but there is general agreement that war became deadlier after the arrival of the Europeans and their firearms.{{Citation needed|reason=Actually the scholarly consensus is that Amerindian warfare and violence was highly evolved prior to the arrival of Europeans. See War Before Civilization by Keeley. As well as North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence. Chacon Edit.|date=October 2019}} The South or Central American infrastructure allowed for thousands of European [[conquistador]]s and tens of thousands of their [[Indian auxiliaries]] to attack the dominant Indigenous civilization. Empires such as the [[Inca]]s 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Inca_Government/ |title=Inca Government |last=Cartwright |first=Mark |date=Oct 2015 |website=[[World History Encyclopedia]] |publisher=Knights of Vatican |access-date=19 July 2017 |quote=Eventually 40,000 Incas would govern some 10 million subjects speaking over 30 different languages. Consequently, the centralised Inca government, employing a vast network of administrators, governed over a patchwork empire which, in practice, touched local populations to varying degrees.}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |author=W. D. Rubinstein |title=Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica |year=2012 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press; Reprint edition |isbn=978-0-8061-4325-5 |page=1}}</ref> 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]].<ref>Increased deadliness of warfare, see for example Hanson, ch. 6. See also [[flower war]].</ref>
|