THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



821 



ANNUAL EXPENSE OF THE INDIAN SERVICE. 



The Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1884, in referring to this sub- 

 ject, wrote : 



I am not aware that any report from this office has ever shown just how much the 

 Government contributes from the United States Treasury to feed and clothe the two 

 hundred thousand Indians who are its wards outside of the five civilized tribes. The 

 public at large finds from the proceedings of Congress and the public press that five 

 millions of dollars in round numbers have been appropriated for the Indian service, and 

 this gives to each Indian twenty-five dollars, which, if true, would not enable any per- 

 son, either white or Indian, to live very luxuriously, for it is a fraction less than 7 cents 

 a day. But small as this is, it is by no means the worst feature of the case, because after 

 deducting from the five millions of dollars the money due the Indians, and which the 

 Government only holds in trust for them, and then deducting cost of transportation 

 and other legitimate and necessary expenses, it is found, by a careful examination of 

 the accounts, that the Indians actually get of the money belonging to the Government, 

 to feed and clothe them, only about seven dollars per annum per capita, or a fraction 

 less than two cents a day for each Indian. It takes from the Treasury of the Govern- 

 ment one thousand dollars a year for each .soldier in our Army, whose chief business 

 it is to see that peace is preserved on the frontier, while it takes from the same source 

 for each Indian only seven dollars. I make this comparison not for the purpose of 

 conveying the idea that the Army appropriation is too much, for I do not know that 

 it is, but for the purpose of showing that the Indian appropriation is too small, be- 

 cause I do know that it is, if it is expected to transform the Indians from being wild 

 roving nomads into peaceable, industrious, and self-supporting citizens in any reason- 

 able time. 



Among the items for which more liberal appropriations sho uld be made are pay of 

 police, pay of additional farmers, and pay of the o fiicers who compose the courts of 

 Indian offenses. I am sustained by the best and hi ghest authority in saying that 

 " there is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than 

 is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. 7 ' More liberality in paying Indian agents and as- 

 sisting such Indians as need it and show a disposition to hel p themselves would be 

 true economy, and hasten the day when the Indians would need no pecuniary aid 

 from the Government. 



AGENCIES, TRIBES, AND LOCATIONS, JUNE 30, 1886. 



The following list of agencies, tribes, locations, and population is from 

 the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1885- 7 86. 



Name of agency and tribe. 



ARIZONA. 



Colorado River Agency. 



Mohave 



Ckimehuevis 



Yuma 



Hualapai 



Pima Agency. 



Pima 



Maricopa , 



Papago 



* Estimated. 



Popu- 

 lation. 



ro7 



*800 



*726 



•4, 500 



*550 

 •7, 000 



Name of agency and tribe. 



abizona — continued. 



San Carlos Agency. 



"White Mountain Apache 



San Carlos Apache 



Apache Yuma 



Apache T^onto 



Apache MfThave 



Coyatero 



"Warm Springs and Chiricahua Apache 



Indians in Arizona not under an agent 



Mohave 



Suppai 



t From report for 1884-'85. 



Popu- 

 lation. 



1,687 

 767 

 268 

 867 

 667 

 310 

 411 



t700 

 t214 



