The St. Johns herald., 1889-01-17
Lo, THE POOR INDIAN.
Strength of the Various Indian Tribes and
 Location of Their Agencies.

Location Of Their Agencies.
 Over one-fourth of the Indians now liv- ing are included in what are known as ths
 " five civilized tribes," which live in the h. dian Territory, and whose names and num- bers are, according to the Chicago Inter Ocean, as follows Cherokees, 23,000; Choc-
 taws, 18,0O0; Chickasaws, G,000; Creeks, ] i4,000; Seminoles, 5000 The other tribes
 are all small and distributed under the vari- ous agents on reservations il tYenty-three ! States and Territories. In Arizona there are three agencies-the Colorado River
 Agency, under which are the following h.
 dians: Mohaves, 769; Chimehuevis, 2O2; i Yumas, 80Os the Pima Agency, which has
 Pimas, 4,100; Maricopas, BIO, and Papagos,
 2,162; the San Carlos Agency, with 1887 White Mountain Apaches, and of Apaches of six other tribes, 3,290. There are also in Arizona of Indians not under an agent, 1,342, of the Mohave and other tribes. In California the tribes are distributed as fol- lows: Hoopa Valley Agency, Hoepas, 460; Alamaths, 2l3; Mission Agency, Serranos,
 490; Dieguenos, 872; Coahulla, 597, and San
 Luis Key Indians, 1,153; Round Valley
 Agency, 551 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 ap 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, 765 Dakota has at
 the Cheyenne River Agency, of Black feet and other Sioux, 2,7Ss; mixed
 bloods, 153; Crow Creek and Lower
 Brule Agency, Sioux, 2,252; Devils Lake A
 Berthold Agency, Arickarees, 501; Gros
 Ventres, 5O2; Mandans, 286; Pine Ridge Agency, Ogalalla Sioux, 4,197; Cheyennes,
 323; mixed bloods, 462; Rosebud Agency,
 Brule and other Sioux, 7,460; Sisseton Agency, Sioux, 1,579; Standing Rock Agency, Uncapapa and other Sioux, with few of mixed blood, 4,545; Yankton Agency,
 Yankton Sioux, 1,777. Idaho has at the Fort Hall Agency, Bannacks, 490; Sho- shones, 1,040; at Lemhi Agency, about 554 of both those tribes at Nez Perce Agency, Nez Perces, 1,192, 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, 2,058; Arapa- hoes, 1,072. Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita
 Agency -Kiowas, 1,179; Comanches, 1,646; Apaches, 332; Caddos, 525; Wichitas, 192;
 Towaconies, 157, and belonging to the Della ware, Keechie and Waco tribes, a total of 188 souls. There are also at the Osage
 Agency, in the same Territory-Osages, l.
 50l; Kaws, 193; Quapaws, A. Pawnee and
 Otoe Agency-Pawnees, 9l6; Poncas, 523;
 !Otoes and Missouris, 355; Tonkawa and Lipan Indians, 65. Quapaw Agency-Shaw- nees, S9; Miamis, 64; Modocs, 91; Ottawas, Ill; Peorias, 154; Quapaws, 1O4; Senecas, 247; Wyandottes, e67. The Sac and Fox
 Agency ID Iowa is occupied by 3S0 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, 722; Pottawatomies, AIS; Kicka-
 poos, 325; Iowas, S9, and of other tribes, 15O.
 The Pottawatomies and Great Nemaha ! Agency, in Kansas, has Kickapoos, 233;
 Iowas, 145; Pottawatomies, 474, with about 156 Chippewas and others. Michigan has,
 at Mackinac Agency, of the various Chip
 pewa tribes, including some Ottawas, 7,216,
 and PottaWatomies, 76; and Minnesota, at
 the White Earth Agency, of Chip
 pewas, 4,533, and Pillager Indians, 1854. In Montana there are at
 the Blackfeet Agency, including Black
 feet, Blood and Piegan Indians, r. 927; at Crow Agency, Crows, 2456; at Flathead Agency, Pend d'Orielles, SO6;
 Kootenais, 4S2, and Flatheads, 72S; Fort
 Belknap Agency, Gros Ventres, 904; Assin- iboines, SIG; Fort Peck Agency, Yankton
 Sioux, 945; Assiniboines, 827; Tongue River Agency, Cheyennes, 819. Nebraska has at the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Oma- has, 1,160; Winnebagos, 1,210; at Santee and Flandreau Agency, Poncas, POS; Santee
 Sioux, 1,094 In Nevada, at the Nevada
 n.l. ID.
 150, and at the Western Shoshone Agency,
 Shoshones, 296; Pi-Utes, 115; while of h. dians wandering from the reserves in
 the State there total of about 6,500 In
 New Mexico the Mescalaro Agency enum- crates Messalaros, 437; the Navajoe Agen- cy, Navajoes, 17,S3S; Moquis Pueblos, 2,2O6,
 and the Pueblo Agency, Pueblos, S,337. In
 New York there arc still some remnants of the old historic tribes, scattered on several
 small reservations in different parts of the
 State, total of 4,966 Indians, divided thus:
 Senecas, 2,702; Onondagas, 326; Cayugas,
 176; Oneidas, 364; TuscarorGS, 454, and St.
 Regis Indians, 944. In North Carolina and Tennessee and adjoining States there are
 still some 5000 CherokeeS scattered about,
 In Oregon there arc at Grand Ronde Agency
 of the Umpquas and other tribes, 399; at
 Klamath Agency, of Klamath, ModOc and
 Snake Indians, 925; Siletz Agency, rem nants of large number of tribes, amount
 ing to COS in all; at Umatilla Agency, of
 Walla Wallas and others, 9S4; Warm Springs Agency, of different tribes, S57, and roaming on Columbia river, some 800 h. dians of different tribes, for whom no agency has been provided. There are no Indian agencies in Texas, but there are 8
 few Alabamas, Cushattas and Muskokees
 scattered through the State, making total of about 300. In Utah the Uintah and Ouray Agency provides for 2,041 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 Colvill Agency has the oversight of 3,0SS Indians of the Kalispels, Spokane, Neg Perce and other tribes; the Neah Bay Agency has 793 Mazahs and Quillehutes; the Quinaielt
 Agency has tribe remnants belonging to the great Selfish family mainly; 645; the Nisqually and S'Kokomish Agency, 1892;
 the TulaliR Agency, 1,27S; the Yakama Agency, 1,74l, besides some 2,OOO Yakamas Aao%