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Show INDIANS NOT DYING OUT. ' Exclusive f Alaska, the Indian population pop-ulation of the United States In 1010 was, in round figures. 305,000, as com-paied com-paied with 2-13,000 in 1$90 and 270.000 in 1900. Contrary to the popular notion no-tion the Indian is increasing. His gain in numbers, moreover, is far less surprising than is his growth In industry in-dustry and intelligence The 5,470 Indians residing In New York, chiefly remnants of the old Iroquois, follow the same pursuits as their white neighbors, dross the same, and, save In complexion, diffor from the white in no essential particular .Much more than a third of all tho Indians in the United States, or 117,000, reside in Oklahoma. Most of these are members mem-bers of the old Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokeos, Choctaws', Chlckasaws, and Semlnoles), each of which, in the old Indian Territory, which was part of the present State of Oklahoma, had a civil government of Its own for two-thirds two-thirds of a century, with schools, churches, mines, factories, mercantile houses, banks, and other accessories of the highest civilization. Leslie's |