833 



UNITED STATES CENSUS. 



Indians other than Chickasavvs in that nation 1.161 



Indians other than Choctaws in that nation 257 



Population of the Five Civilized Tribes: 



Indians 52,065 



Colored Indian citizens and claimants 14.224 



Total 66,289 



Pueblos of New Mexico 8,278 



Six Nations, t>t. Regis, and other Indians of New York. 5,304 



Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina 2,885 



Under control of the War Department, prisoners of 



war (Apaches at Mount Vernon barracks) 3?4 



In State or Territorial prisons 184 



* Includes 10,889 pure negroes ; 3.878 mulattoes, or negroes 

 of mixed blood; 240 Chinese; and 180 Indians. 



nounced that the total Indian population of the 

 United States, exclusive of Alaska, but including 

 32,567 taxed or taxable Indians counted in the 

 general census, was 249,273. From this it will be 

 seen that the total of Indians to be added to the 

 figures given in the final count is 216,706. Of the 

 taxed or taxable Indians, 98 per cent, do not live 

 on reservations. Of the total given of these In- 

 dians i. e., 32,567 some are denominated as 

 self-sustaining citizens. The distribution of In- 

 dians not counted in the census proper at the time 

 of enumeration can be seen from the following 

 statement : 



On reservations or at schools under control of the In- 

 dian Office (not taxed or taxable) 133,382 



Incidentally under the Indian Office and self-support- 

 ing, the five civilized tribes. Indians and colored : 



Cherokee Indians, 25.357 ; colored. 4,242 Total, 29.509 



Chickasaw Indians, 3,4(54 ; colored, 3,71 8 " 7,1 82 



Choctaw Indians, 9.996 ; colored, 4.401 " 14.397 



Creek Indians. 9.291 ; colored, 5,341 " 14,632 



Seininole Indians, 2,539; colored, 22 " 2.:,<;i 



Total * 68,371 



Deduct number of colored persons probably not 



members of tribes (estimated) 3,.iOO 



Total... 



Total 216,706 



The following statistics of Indians show the 

 number of males and females taxed or taxable 

 and untaxed, number to whom rations are issued, 

 etc. : Males taxed or taxable and untaxed, 82.- 

 246; males untaxed and on reservations, 65,301 ; 

 females taxed or taxable and untaxed, 83,703 ; 

 females untaxed and on reservations, 68,081 ; In- 

 dians on reservations to whom rations are issued 

 by the United States, 34,675 ; self-supporting In- 

 dians on reservations (farming, herding, root- 

 digging, horse-raising, fishing, or hunting), 98,- 

 707 ; total self-supporting Indians taxed or tax- 

 able and untaxed (32,567 taxed or taxable), not 

 including the five civilized tribes, 131,274. 



The number of persons other than Indians in 

 the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, 

 enumerated by Indian census enumerators, is as 

 follows : White persons in Cherokee nation, 27,- 

 176; Chickasaw nation, 49,444; Choctaw na- 

 tion, 27,991 ; Creek nation, 3,280 : Seminole na- 

 tion, 96; total, 107,987; colored persons in the 

 five civilized tribes probably not members of the 

 tribes (estimated), 3,500 ; Chinese in the Chicka- 

 saw nation, 6; total. 111,493. 



The number of the male, female, and ration 

 Indians on reservations in the States and Terri- 

 tories is given in the following table : 



* Exclusive of the five civilized tribes. 

 The enumeration of the six nations, Saint 

 Regis, and other Indians on reservations in the 

 State of New York showed a total of 5,304, in- 

 cluding 955 on the Allegany reservation, the re- 

 mainder being distributed on reservations as fol- 

 lows : Cattaraugus, 1.574; Tonawanda, 561 ; Tits- 

 carora, 455 ; Saint Regis, 1,053 ; Onondaga, 469 ; 

 Oneida. 237. The Eastern Cherokee tribe of In- 

 dians live on the Eastern Cherokee reservation, 

 North Carolina, and number 2,885, of which 

 1.475 are males and 1,410 females. Rations arc 



