Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-09-02
10, THE POOR INDIAN.
Strength OF the Various Indian Tribes and
Location of Their Agencies.


Over onc-fourth Of the Indians now liv-
ing are included in what are known as the
five civilized tribes" which live in the In
dian Territory and whose names and num-
bers are, according to the Chicago Inter
ocean, as follows: Cherokees, $1,000; Choc-
taws, 1900; Chickasaws, 5000; Creeks,
1900: Seminoles, 1900. 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
GAus: MJhlves, 7G9; Chimehuevis, 202;
! Yuma3, 900; the Pima Agency, which has
! Fimas, 400; Maricopas, 80, and Papagos,
g !J}; the San Carlos Agency, with 1857
! White Mountain Apaches, and Of Apaches
| Of six other tribes, 1890. There are also in
Arizona Of Indians not under an agent,
! l.342, of the Mohavc and other tribes In
! California the tribes are distributed as fol-
| lows: Hoopa Valley Agency, Hoopas, 400;
! Klamaths, 2l3; Mission Agency, Serranos,
! 400; Deguenos, S72; Coahulla, 597 and San
| Luis Rey Indians, 1,l53; Round Valley
! Agency 551 Indians belonging to the Ukie
and other klamath tribes; Tule River
| Agency, Of the Kings River and other
| bands, go; also of Indians scattered
throughout the State and not under an
agent total of about 6,355. In Colorado
there are at the Southern Ute Agency
Of the Moache and other Utes, 995, and
Jacarilla Apaches, 7S5. Dakota has at
the Cheyenne River Agency, Of Black
feet and other Sioux, 2,7s3; mixed
bloods, 1885, Crow Creek and Lower
Brule Agency, Sioux, 2,252; DEVILS Lake
Agency, Sioux, OPS; Chippewas, 1,126; Fort
Bcrthold Agency, Arickarees, SOL; Gros
| Ventres, 502; Mandans, 2S6; Pine Ridge
Agency, Ogalalla Sioux, 4,197; Cheyennes,
1923; mixed bloods, 4G2; Rosebud Agency,
Brule and other Sioux, 746O; Ssseton
Agency, Sioux, 1879; Standing Rock
Agency, Uncapapa and other Sioux, with
few of mixed blood, 4,545; Yankton Agency,
Yankton Sioux, In. Idaho has at the
Fort Hall Agency, Bannacks, 400; Sho-
shones, 1,040; at Lemhi Agency, about 5d of
both those tribes at Nez Perce Agency,
Nez Perces, 1,l92, and of Indians not in
cluded in the agencies, the Pend d'Oreilles
and Kootenals tribes, numbering about 600.
Aside from the civilized tribes, there are in
Indian Territory, at the Cheyenne and Ara
paho Agency -Cheyennes, 2,0jS; Arapa-
hoes, 1,072. Kiowa Comanche and Wichita
Agency-Kiowas, 1,l79; Comanches, 1646;
Apaches, 332 Caddos, 525; Wichitas, 1872;
Towaconies 157, and belonging to the Della
ware, Keechie and Waco tribes, a total of
1888 souls There are also at the Osage
Agency, in the same Territory-Osages, L.
sol; Kaws, 1913; Quapaws, "a. Pawnee and
Otoe Agency -Pawnees, 9lS; Poncas, 523;
Otoes and Mlssouris, 355; Tonliawa and
Lipan Indians, S5 Quapaw Agency-Shaw-
nees. SO; Miamis, "a; Modocs, 9l; Ottawas,
III; Peorias, 15i; Quapaws, 10i; Senecas,
A7; Wyandottes 267. The Sac and Fox
Agency IN Iowa is occupied by $50 descend
ants of these once famous allied tribes The
agency Of the same name in Indian Terri
tory has 52S Sac and Fox Indians; also,
Shawnees, 1922 Pottawatomes, Ais; Kiclfa-
poos, 325; Iowas, SO. and of other tribes, $50.
The Pottawatomies and Great Nemaha
Agency, in Kansas, has Kickapoos, 233;
Iowas l45; Pottawatomhes, 474, with about
1856 Chlppewas and others. Michigan has,
at Mackinac Agency, of the various Chip
pewa tribes including some Ottawas, 1910,
and Pottawatomies, 76; and Minnesota at
the White Earth Agency, of Chip
pewas, 1858, and Pillager Indians,
1,5d. In Montana there are at
the Blackfeet Agency, including Black
feet, Blood and Piegan Indians, L.
927, at Crow Agency, Crows, 2,456;
at Flathead Agency, Pend dOrielles, S06;
Kootenais, 4S2, and Flatheads, 72S Fort
Bellnap Agency Gros Veutres, 904; ASSN
iboines, SIG; Fort Peck Agency, YanlSton
Sioux, 9I5 Assiniboines, S27; Tongue River
Agency, Cheyennes Sl9. Nebraska has at
the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Oma-
has, l,l60; Winnebagos, 1,2l0; at Santee
and Flandreau Agency Poncas, 20S; Santee
Sioux, 1904, In Nevada, at the Nevada
Agency, there are Pah-Utes, S94; Pi-Utes,
l5O, and ut the Western Shoshone Agency
Shoshoncs, 206; Pi-Utes, l15; while of In-
dams wandering from the reserves in
Al. tNtn nj Nfu ~ T.,
New Mexico the Mescaaro Agency enum-
crates Mesealaros, 437; tho Navajoe Agen-
cy, Navaioes, l7,S3S; Moquis Pueblos, 2206
and the Pueblo Agency, Pueblos, S,33i In
New York there are still some remnants of
the old historic tribes, scattered ON several
small reservations in different parts Of the
State, a total of 1866 Indians, divided thus;
Senocas, 2,IO3; Onondagas, 800; Cayugas,
10; Oneidas, 36i; Tuscaroras, I5i, and ST.
Regis Indians OH In North Carolina and
Tennessee and adjoining States there are
still some 1900 Cherokees scattered about
In Oregon there are at Grand Ronde Agency
of the umpquas and other tribes, 800; at
Klamath Agency, Of klamath, Modoc and
Snake Indians, 925; Siletz Agency, rem
nants of n large number of tribes, amount
ing to COS in all; at Umatila Agency, OF
Walla Wallas and others, 9S4; Warm
Springs Agency, of different tribes, S55, and
roaming ON Columbia river, some 500 In.
dams of different tribes, for whom no
agency has been provided. There are no
Indian agencies in ToNas, but there are a
few Alabamas, Cushattas and Muskokees
scattered through the State, making IA total
OF about 800 In Utah the Uintah and
ouray Agency provides for 2,0il 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 Colvll Agency
has the oversight of 30Ss lnoians OF the
kahspels, Spokane, Neg Perco and other
tribes; the Neah Bay Agency has 5a3
Makahs and Quillehutes; the Quinaielt
Agency has tribe remnants belonging 10
the great Selfish family mainly; CAS-; the
NisQually and S'KoIomish Agency, l,6Q2;
the Tulalp Agency, l,2js; the Nakama
Agency, l,5il, besides some 1900 Nallamas
not kept ON any reserve, Wisconsin has
under tho Green Bay Agency onoidas,
i,l32; Menominees, l,Sl0, and Stockbridge
Indians, lS; under La Pointe Agency,
ChinpeWaS, lOta. pAttaWatOmiCs 100 be-