They stopped the Iroquois confederacy's expansion west and pushed them back into their homelands of New York State , they pushed very well known powerful tribes such as the Dakota , Arapaho , Cheyenne , Omaha , Sauk , Fox and others from their homelands in the Great Lakes region to the plains or west of the Mississippi.
They numbered at over 100,000 in the 1600s and 35,000 ( low est) in the 17-1800s due to Europeans diseases . It was said they had 25,000 warriors on stand by during the 18th and 19th centuries .
They held the largest amount of land by any indigenous group north of Mexico ( dwarfing the Aztec empires territory )
And they never lost an outright battle against a European nation or Americans .
And signed more than 150 treaties with France , the United States , Canada and the British. Which is by far more than anyone else
So I'm curious why tribes like the Lakota , Iroquois , Comanche etc get more press or fame when the Chippewa were clearly more successful than almost every other indigenous american nation .
And today they number at 330,000 + full blood or tribally enrolled people making them the 3rd biggest tribe in the United States and Canada combined , but if you add in mixed blood ( non tribally enrolled ) people that # skyrockets to about 800,000 people .
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