Show INDIAN population A census bulletin of of the united states exclusive of the tribes in alaska has been issued the bulletin chows the total indian population of the united states to be which is made up as follows on reservations or at school under the control of the indian office not taxed incidentally under the indian territory are cherokee chickasaws choctaws creeks and 2539 seminoles Semi noles there are also about 14 colored i people mixed indian blood living with and members of the above tribes the total population of the five civilized tribes is therefore the pueblos of new mexico six nations and st aegis of new york eastern cherokees of north corolina 2885 indians 98 per cent of whom are on reservations taxed and self sustaining citizens counted in the general population apaches at mount vernon barracks prisoners indians in state or territorial prisoners uriso ners total the bulletin shows further total males taxed and untaxed od total untaxed and on reservations total females taxed and untaxed and on reservations ration indians on reservations to whom rations are issued by the united slates self supporting indians on reservations by farming herding root dig ging horse raising fishing and hunting total self supporting indians dand not including the five civilized tribes the number of whites on the several reservations in the indian territory aggregates aa follows in the cherokee nation in the chica aaa nation in the chickasaw Chi casaw nation 96 in the creek nation these figures though startling in many respects are yet interesting inter sting they are startling when we compare the figures with population of cities and realize that the whole indian population could not in numbers make one omaha or a kansas city that in utah are more whites than the entire indian population of our big coultry cou when we consider this in view of the fact that america used to be their home that they were monar ches of all they saw it is truly start soon they hayo dwindled away one by one the powerful tribes we read of have been blotted out from ex stence the once great cherokee tribe as many eanls as anro found in provo and the warlike Semi nolea would not make a Spring villo in population we think the rapid decrease of the aborigines of america argues strongly that the redman has not been rightly dealt with we do not argue as some do that this continent be longed to the redman and therefore whiteman the did wrong in appropriating pria ting the land to the uses of civilization when thousands were starving in the overcrowded over crowded countries of europe and this biff rich country lay slumbering with its untold ed resources we believe the inhabitants of the eastern continent did right to settle america and thus give a chance for more beings to inhabit the earth still we do maintain that the poor indians have been and are foully dealt with they have disappeared before the advance or civilization like wheat before a reaper the few remaining souls ought to be permitted to rest in peace but instead we find plans laid for their total annihilation an indian has no rights that our mighty government feels in duty bound to respect and the next census of the country may find all the indians of the united states numbering not as many as the population prove wil then contain |