OUR INDIAN WARDS 



INDIAN POPULATION BY STATES, 1927 



2O5 



States with Indian Reservations are indicated by the letter R. [In other 

 states, Indians are not under government control 



Alabama 



Arizona R . . 



Arkansas 



California. R. . 



Colorado R. . 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



District of Columbia 



Florida R.. 



Georgia 



Idaho R.. 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Iowa R.. 



Kansas R.. 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan R. . 



Minnesota R. . 



Mississippi R. . 



Missouri 



Montana... ..R.. 



405 

 46,235 



1 06 

 18,893 



796 



159 



2 



37 

 503 

 125 



3,949 

 194 

 125 

 392 



1,526 



57 

 i, 066 



839 



32 



550 



7,610 



15,056 



1,410 



in 



13,507 



Nebraska R 4,304 



Nevada R 5,042 



New Hampshire 44 



New Jersey 99 



New Mexico R 22,869 



New York R 5,375 



North Carolina. . . .R 12,185 



North Dakota R 10,257 



Ohio 152 



Oklahoma R 119,216 



Oregon R 6,674 



Pennsylvania 358 



Rhode Island 106 



South Carolina 304 



South Dakota R 23,107 



Tennessee 56 



Texas 2,110 



Utah R 1,570 



Vermont 24 



Virginia 822 



Washington R 12,900 



West Virginia 7 



Wisconsin R 11,622 



Wyoming R 1,952 



(Figures compiled from reports of Indian agents, supplemented by 1920 

 census, where no Indian agent is located.) 



has brought about many happy individual results, 

 appearances so far indicate that it will not carry far 

 enough to realize the Jeffersonian prediction so far 

 as this may have contemplated inter-marriage. So 

 far as it contemplated mixed business relationship, 

 experience shows that the Indians will always be 

 under disadvantage. 



With our Indian population consistently in- 

 creasing, the Bureau of Indian affairs may look for- 

 ward to a permanent career of increasing impor- 

 tance. Special significance therefore may attach to 



