--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1841 to 1842. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 3 number: 20 published: 1842-08-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "β€œTo the Editor of the Times and Seasons,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 20 (August 15, 1842): 890–891." printed_title: To the Editor of the Times and Seasons. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-08-15_3_20 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n20.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-08-15_3_20 start_page: 890 end_page: 891 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1842 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-08-15_3_20 publication_year: 1842 --- # To the Editor of the Times and Seasons SIR:-It may not be uninteresting to many of your readers, to peruse a sketch of the Red-Men of the western wilderness. From a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Executive Departments of the Government of the United States, many important facts are gleaned, relating to the Indians, both as to numbers and habits, and progress, and expenses. It is generally known, that our government has been engaged for some years, in removing and locating the remnant of the tribes of Indians, left among our citizens in the states and teritories [territories], to, and upon a more congenial, and better adapted space for hunting, and husbandry, where, by degrees, these noble "relics of a once mighty people," might gradually grow into civilization, arts, science, agriculture, manufactures, virtue, national importance, and religion. The appearance, however, of a very speedy advance, from Indian to English, or American habits, customs, manners, improvements, refinement and intelligence, is not, by far so prominantly [prominently] perceptible, as their imitation of the pioneer vices. The improvement is hardly equal to the amount of money expended for removing, for agents, mechanics, teachers, preachers, &c. &c. As to numbers the reports will range about as follows: Tribes. population. Cherokees, .......................................................................................25,000 Choctaws, ........................................................................................15,000 Creeks, ...........................................................................................20,000 Senecas & Shawnees, ............................................................................500 Quapaws, ............................................................................................500 Sacs & Foxes, ............................................................................ .....7,000 Sioux. ............................................................................................23,000 Osages, ............................................................................................4,300 Chippewas, .......................................................................................4,000 Pawnees, ........................................................................................12,000 Camanches [Comanches], ..................................................................20,000 Pagans, ..........................................................................................30,000 Appaches, ......................................................................................20,000 Assinaboins [Assiniboins]. ................................................................15,000 Grosventures [Gros Ventres], ............................................................17,000 Crows, ............................................................................................7,000 Eutaws, ..........................................................................................19,000 Black feet [Blackfeet], .................................................................... ...30,000 Total, ......................................................................................... 269,300 Yet remaining East to be removed,..........................................................25,000 Making an aggregate of......................................................................294,300 The commissioner's report, however allows the Indian population in the United States and teritories[territories], to be 333,000. This, I think does not include those now occupying the space west of the Rocky Mountains. Thus you have a glimpse of the lights and shades of the aboriginees [aborigines] of the west, in their low estate, showing that the wilderness does not yet "blosom [blossom] ast [as] the rose," although the signs of the times would indicate, that the time is near when the mountains will drop down new wine, and Jacob's face will not wax pale. P.