XIV.
AN ACCOUNT
OF THE NUMBERS, LOCATION, AND SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
CONDITION OF EACH IMPORTANT TRIBE AND BAND OF INDIANS
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE EXCEPTION
OF THOSE DESCRIBED IN THE PREVIOUS PAGES.
[From the Report of Francis A. Walker, United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the year 1872.]
The Indians within the limits of the United States, exclusive of those in Alaska, number, approximately, 300,000.
They may be divided, according to their geographical location or range, into five grand divisions, as follows: in Minnesota, and States east of the Mississippi River, about 32,500; in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory, 70,650; in the Territories of Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, 65,000; in Nevada, and the Territories of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, 84,000; and on the Pacific slope, 48,000. *** As regards their means of support and methods of subsistence, they may be divided as follows: those who support themselves upon their own reservations, receiving nothing from the Government except interest on their own moneys, or annuities granted them in consideration of the cession of their lands to the United States, number about 130,000; those who are entirely subsisted by the Government, about 31,000; those in part subsisted, 84,000,—together, about 115,000; those who subsist by hunting and fishing, upon roots, nuts, berries, etc., or by begging and stealing, about 55,000.
TRIBES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
NEW YORK.