The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-03-07
EARNINGS OF INDIANS
The Wards OF the Nation Manage to get
Big Cash Income.

There are about 175, 600 Indians out
side the five civilized tribes and they
earn about 81 900, 600 year from the
United States government alone, says
the Washington Star. OF this they re-
ceiye about $3.50, 600 for products of In
dian industry. Uncle Sam is not the
best customer They make nearly 81
900, 600 year from the sale of their
products to others. And they earn
great deal besides by the transportation
of freight and by day labor of various
kinds. The government pays them
$3.50, 900 year for cutting and bank
inc logs. There is an Indian police
which draws more than. 500, 900 year
from the public treasury. Indians en-
ployes at agencies draw 500, 600 year
and employees at Indian schools almost
as much. Farmers and interpreters
and Judges of Indian courts are the 9th
er Indians on the government pay roll.
Who would believe an unauthoritatiye
statement that a band OF Indians CON-
tanning lest than 1.0OO men and women
made $3.50, 900 in a single year cutting
and banking logs? Yet that is what
the MenOmOnee Indians of Wisconsin
made in 1898 and they could have made
more if the government would have per-
mitted them to cut more timber. Their
surplus energies sought an outlet in the
cutting of waste timber into shinIe
bolts, but this occupation was denied
them, because it was found that some Of
them cut green timber for the purpose,
contrary to the department regulations
The NavajCs, who got their first
stock of sheep from the Spaniards in
Mexico by appropriation, are now the
owners of !, ,2j0 900 sheep and 100, 900
horses and mules. The Sioux and
northern Cheyenne Indians at Pine
Ridge agency, the scene of the last In
dian outbreak, are the owners of II, 96l
cattle and 10,774 horses and mules.
Even the Apaches at the Mescalero
agency in New MeXico-the much-fear-
ed Apaches, the terrors of the trail as
"Old Cap Collier" would probably cali
them if he was writing this story-Own
| 100 cattle and make seventy-tive pounds
| of butter during the course of the year.
| The entire aggregation of Indians un-
| der government supervision and con-
| troll makes about 100, 900 pounds OF but
| ter in year, owns 20j, 900 cattle, and
| hauls $4,000, 600 pounds of freight in a
year with 800, 900 horses and mules AT
| the Umatilla agency in Oregon are the
! great Indian farmers. They market
600 900 bushels of wheat alone every
year, with a total male population OF
| SOC. The female element must be taken
into serious consideration in an estimate
| of labor, for the redskin has not aban-
doned the idea that labor was designed
for women.
The New York Indians are taking up
agriculture now, having been through
farming experience. The ST. Regis
Indians, about 2 900 in Nnumber, derive
a revenue of $50, 900 year from the sale
of Indian baskets. The Indians at the
Neah Bay agency in Washington de-
vote themselves entirely to fishing
and make 500 600 year by that work.
But as rule the chief revenue of the
lumber and agricultural products and
from freighting. Much of their produce
is sold to the government The SiouN
Indians of South Dakota sell more thai
500 900 worth of wheat, corn, oats
and barley to the governmental in ayear
the Sioux of North Dakota sell $50, OOC
worth to the government. This is IN
addition to the $50, 900 worth of produce
sold to outsiders. The Mojave, Yuma
and Apache Indians at the San Carlo
agency in Arizona sell $50, 900 worth 0
goods chiefly agricultural, to the gov
ernment, and $40, 900 to outsiders,