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Sufficiently thick, they are reduced to the necessity of wading

The Sioux have been represented by some to be very numerous and powerful; but, according to my informant, without foundation; He knew nothing of those on the Missouri; but those on the Mississippi and St Peters could not bring forward more than one thousand warriors. These are scattered over a country four or five hundred miles in extent. They are at war with the Sac and Fox Indians on the South; and the Ojibewa Indians on the North

Cherokee Nation, West of Arkansas, January 22, 1841