360 



NUMBER OF PUEBLO INDIANS CENSUS. 



ordered by the legislature of New Mexico, convened in December, 

 1847; but it includes only individuals five years of age and upwards. 



PUEBLOS AND PUEBLO INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO. 



~ Pueblo Indians 



Counties. Pueblos. oyer fi ye&rg 



County of Taos, . Taos, Picoris . . .283 

 " Rio Arriva, San Juan, Santa Clara . . 500 



c , t,, ( San Ildefonso, Namba, Po- 

 Santa Fe, < ^ ' ' 



7 { joaque, lezuque, 



590 



C Cochiti, Santo Domingo, } 

 " Santa Anna, < San Felipe, Santa Anna, Zia, > 1,918 



( Jemez, J 

 " Bernalillo, Sandia, Gleta, t , .833 

 " Valencia, Laguna, Acoma, Zunia, 1,800 

 Opposite El Paso, Socoro, Islettas, , , . 600 



Total of Pueblos 21. Total of Pueblo Indians 6,524 



These calculations will serve to aid in the estimates of present 

 population, for no accurate census has been prepared officially for 

 many years. 



In 1793, according to an enumeration then made, the whole 

 population amounted to 30,953: — in 1833 it is estimated, in the 

 statistics of Galvan's Calendar, at 52,300 individuals, who were 

 divided by Miihlenpfordt and Dr. Wislizenius into ^ pure Spanish 

 blood, j% Creoles, /-g- Mestizos, and Pueblo Indians. These 

 calculations, according to the above census of Pueblo Indians, 

 would make the whole present population not more than thirteen 

 or fourteen thousand, which is obviously incorrect unless the census 

 of 1847 was most inaccurately made. 



In a letter from the Hon. Hugh N. Smith, delegate from New 

 Mexico, addressed to the National Intelligencer, Washington, 

 and published on the 25th of June, 1850, he desires to correct the 

 mistakes which have been made in regard to the number and char- 

 acter of the inhabitants of New Mexico. The number, he says, 

 has been variously stated in the Congressional debates at from ten 

 to seventy thousand; and generally one half, and sometimes all of 

 them, are said to be Indians. "This is a great error," continues 

 the delegate, "we have a population of at least ninety thousand, 

 of whom from ten to twelve thousand only are Pueblo Indians, and 

 we do not estimate in our population any other kind of Indians ex- 

 cept Pueblos. They are a quiet, inoffensive, honest, and indus- 

 trious people ; they own the best farming lands in the Territory, and 



