The Irish standard., 1888-09-15
5.5i l-y q THE POOR INDIAN
\ Strength of the Various Ineiian Tribes and
3ss 4 Location OF Their Agencies.

&c, tn + POOR INDIAN.
Strength OF the Various Ineaian Tribes and
Location OF Their Agencies.
fS Over one fourth Of the Indians now liv-
ing are included in what are known as the
B" five civilized tribes = which live in the In
dian Territory. and whose names and num-
3hers are, according to the Chicago Inter
OCEAN, as follows Cherokees, %, 600; Choc-
taws, 1900; Chickasaws, 5000; Creeks
Il, 900; Seminoles, 5000. The other tribes
are all small and distributed under the vari-
Gus agents on reservations in twenty three
States and Territories. In Arizona there
are three agencies--the Colorado River
Agency, under which are the following In
dams: Mohaves, 1859; Chinehuevis, 2O2;
Yumas, 500; the Pima Agency, which has
Pimas, 400; Maricopas, $40, and Papagos,
2,162; the San Carlos Agency; with l:6S7
White Mountain Apaches, and OF Apaches
Of six other tribes, 1920. There are also in
Arizona of Indians not under an agent,
1892, of the Mohave and other tribes. In
California the tribes are distributed as tol~
lows: Hoopa Valley Agency, Hoopas, 400;
Klamatls, 213: Mission Agency, Serranos,
400; Dieg,1enos, s72; Coahulia, 5N, and San
Luis Rey Indians, 1853; Round Valley
Agency, 55i Indians belonging to the Ukie
and other Klamath tribes; Tule River
Agency, Of the Kings River and other
bands, 679; also of Indians scattered
throughout the State and not under an
agent q total Of about 6,355. In Colorado
there are at the Southern Ute Agency,
OF the Moache and ether Utes, sos, and
Jaca;.illa Apaches, 7S5. Dakota has at
the Cheyenne River Agency, Of Black
feet and other Sioux. 3,7ss, mixed
bloods. 1853; Grow Creek and Lower
Brulc Agency, Sioux, 2,e5a; DEVILS Lake
Agency, Sioux, 9ss; Chippewas, 1,126; Fort
Berthold Agency, Arickarees, sol; Gros
Ventres, 500; Mandans, ESQ; Pine Ridge
Agency, Cgalalla SIOUX, 4,1e7; Cheyennes,
S23; mixed hloods, 462; Rosebud Agsroy,
Brule and other Sioux, 1850: Sisseton
Agency, Sioux, 1,579; Standing Rock
Agency. Uncapapa and other Sioux, with q
few Of naked blood, 4,545; Yanhton Agency,
,Yanktcn Sioux, 1,77T. Idaho has at the
Fort Hail Agency, Bannacks, 490; Sho-
ahones, 1000; at Laulhi a gency, about 5A Of
both those tribes; AT Nez Perce Agency,
Nez Perces, 1892. and Of Indians not In
clnded in the agencies the Pend d'Oreilles
and Kootenais tribes, numbering about 600.
Aside from the civilized tribes, there are in
Indian Territory at the Cheyenne and .Ara~
paho Acknowledgements, a,o5s; Arapa-
hoes, 1,o72, Kiowa, Co1nanchs and Wichita
A.gency--kiowas: 1,179; Coznancles, 1,64S;
Apaches, 1892; Caddos, 525: Wichitas, 1872;
Towaconies, 1s7, and belonging to the Della
ware, Keechie AND Waco tribes, 9 total Of
lSS souls. There are also ct the Usage
Agency, III the same Territory-Osages l.
sol: Ravs. 1873; Quapaws, -, Pawnee and
Otoa Appropriateness, els; Poncas, 5223s;
Ctocs and Missonris, s55; Tonkawa and
Lpan Indians, IS. Quapaw Agency-Shaw~
nees SO; Mianlis, 81; Modocs 81, Ottawas,
I'll; Peorias, 154; l}uapaws, 104; Senecas,
2s1; Wyandottes, 2S7. The Sac and Fox
Agency in lowe is occupied by $50 descend
ants Of these once famous allied tribes. The
agency Of the same name in Indian Terri
tory has 62S Sac and Fox Indians; also,
shawnees, 722; Pottawatomies, 419; kicka-
poos, S335; Iowas, So and Of other tribes, $50.
The Pcttawaton,ies and Great Nemaha
Agency, in Kansas. has Kicaapoos, 2s9;
Iowas, l45; Pottawatomies, Az, wjt1, shout
l55 Chippewas aud others Michigan aas;
at Maclzinac Agency, of the various Chip
pewa tribes, including some Ottawas, 1915,
ssnd pottawatomies, 76; and Minnesota, at
the White Earth Agency, Of Chip
pewas, 4,5s3, and Pillager Indians,
1854. I'll Montana there are at
the Rl&clzfseS Agency, including Black
feet, Blood and Piegan Indians, "
OF; at Crow Agency, Crows, 1856;
ct Flathead Agency, Pend d'Orielles, s06 !;
Bel]ynap Agency, Gros Ventures, 904; ASSN
Sioux, at5: Assinihoines, s27: Tongue River
Aesacy, Cheyennes, $40 Nebraska has at
She Omaha ana Winnebago Agency, Oma-
has, l,lGO, Winnebagos, 7,210; at Santee
and F.andreau Agency, Poncas, 2GS; Santee
Sioux, 1904. In Nevada. at the Nevada
Agency, there ara Pah-Utes, 1914; PiUtes,
$50, and al the Western Shoshone Agency,
Shoshones, 1855; Pi-Utes, lib; while Of IN
dams wandering frcrn the reserves in
the State there total OF about CISCO. In
New Mexico the Mescalaro Agency enu,n-
crates Mescaiaros, 49,; the Navajoe Agen-
cy, Navajoes, 1883; Moquis Pueblos, 2,206,
and she Pueblo Agency, Pueblos, 2,o27. In
New York there are still some remnants OF
the old historic tribes, scattered On several
email reservations in different parts of the
State, total of 1886 Indians, divided thus |:
Scnecas, 2,702; Onondagas, 1926; Caylgas,
l;6; Oneitlas, s64; Tuscarcras, 454, and St.
Regis Indians, a44. In North Carolina and
Tennessee and adjoining States there ore
still some 1900 Cherokees scattered about
In Oregon there are at Grand Ronde Agency
OF the Unapquas AND other tribes, 800: st
klamath Agency, Of Klamath, Modoc and
Snake Indians, 925; Sjletz Agency, rem
nants OF q large number Of tribes, amount
ing to eos in I'll; at U,natina Agency, of
STala Wallas and others, 9s4; Warm
Springs agency, Of different tribes, 857, and
roaming on Columbia river, some 500 IN
dams OF different tribes, fcr whom no
agency has been provided. There are no
Indian agencies in Texas. but there are a
few Alabanas, Cushattas and afuskokees
scattered through the State, making a total
of about BOO. III Utah the Uintah and
Ouray Agency provides for 2,G4l Utes Of
different bands, but there are some 400 or
more in roaming bands through the Ter
ritory not under agency jurisdiction, In
Washington Territory the Colvin Agency
has the oversight OF 3,0ss Indians OF the
Kalispels, Spokane, Nez Perez and other
tribes; the Neah Bay Agency has 7:3
Makahs aud Quillehutes; the Quinaielt
Agency has tribe remnants belonging to
the great Selfish Family mainly; 645, the
NisanaIly and S'Eokomish Agency, 1892;
tue Tulalip Agency, l,s7e; the Yakima
Agency, 1,741, besides some 1900 Yakamas
not kept on any reserve. Wisconsin has