POPULATION
Below is given the population of the Apache at different periods, all but the first estimate (Lewis and Clark, 6) being taken from the annual Indian reports. They have probably never numbered much over three hundred and fifty:
- 1805—Ca´takâ, 25 tipis, 75 warriors, 300 souls.
- 1850—50 lodges (=325 souls?).
- 1854—40 lodges (Fitzpatrick); 320 (Whitfield, Report of 1855).
- 1865—500 (Report), 40 lodges, with 4 or 5 to a lodge (Leavenworth, in Report on Condition of Indian Tribes, 37, 1867).
- 1867—800 (?), 70 tipis, 420 souls (estimate in report of Medicine Lodge treaty—Indian Miscel.).
- 1868—Same.
- 1869—300 (Report of 1870).
- 1870—Same.
- 1871—378.
- 1872—380a; 517b.
- 1873—774 (?).
- 1874—602 (?).
- 1875—344.
- 1876—325.
- 1877—343.
- 1878—344.
- 1879—315.
- 1880—334.
- 1881—337.
- 1882—340.
- 1883—337.
- 1884—308.
- 1885—319.
- 1886—332.
- 1887—Same.
- 1888—348.
- 1889—349; "a very careful census."
- 1890—326.
- 1891—325.
- 1892—241 (decrease from epidemic).
- 1893—224.
- 1894—Same, taken from preceding.
- 1895—226.
- 1896—208.
Fig. 61—Sét-t'án or Little-bear.
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY— SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXXV
THE SET-T'AN ANNUAL CALENDAR, (FROM THE NATIVE DRAWING).