The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-13
100000 REDSKINS
Indians Still Pound In Nearly
Every State Of the Union,
They Are Divided Into Taxed and
Untaxed Aborlglnals.

the United States are divided with
very little sentiment into two classes
the taxed Indians aud the Indians
not taxed The taxed Indians are
those who arc recognized by law as
civilized; the untaxed Indians are
those who arc regarded by law as saw
ages, the test Of civilization estab-
lshed by Uncle Sans Government
being, In tho case Of Indians, but Of
nobody else, taxes.
There are in oil the United States a
quarter Of million Of Indians at
present, and Of these about 60, 900
come under the designation OF civil
lied Indians taxed and 1906 are
barbarian Indians or savages Gun
taxed). The theory Of the law, APP
pears TO be that when an Indian knows
enough to pay taxes or to be subject
TO taxation then he is civilized. When
he refrains from paying taxes or has
no money to pay them with, then he
is not civilized. There are GO, 900 In
dams ia tho Indian Territory
maintaining a separate tribal govern
ment OF their own, indie
pendent Of the laws Of the United
States Except so far as their actions
affect American citizens), but who
have not the right to vote, to partici.
pate in political matters, or to leave
their respective nations In addition
to these Indians under tribal govern
ment there are 5000 other Indians in
the Indian Territory and a number
scattered over some Of the other ter
ritories, 90, 600 in New Mexico $500
of them ciyilized), 16, 900 in Arizona
Q,5OO OF them civilized, and 1900 in
Oklahoma ten returned by the census
as civilized).
This list does not exhaust the num-
Der OF Indians in the United States,
for nearly every state has q few
some civilized and taxed, some bar
bArian and untaxed. BY the last Fed
eral report, for instance, there we're
four Indians in Delaware-all civil
lied. There was one Indian in Illi-
nois, the condition of whose civiliza-
ton was not reported, and there we're
twenty-eight civilized Indians in New
York (most of them on Long Island)
exclusive of 726 more or less civilized
Indians in the various counties of the
State in addition to the Indians of
the Six Nations on reservations til
largest of which is in the vicinity
of Syracuse. The Indians of the Six
Nations inoluded by the last report
$500 persons, though at Que time the
total number was 1000. BY the last
report there we're $50 Indians in
Maine, 424 in Massachusetts,, $50 in
Rhode Island, 228 in Cincinnati, "a in
New Jersey, "a in Vermont, and 16
in New Hampshire. The census of
West Virginia returned nine Indians
within that State, but the neighboring
State of North Carolina had 1,514 f;
South Carolina 1873; Alabama, 1859,
and Mississippi, 2,O36. There are
but vestiges OF the once numerous
Indian population of Florida, and
Texas has fewer than 700. The Pacific
coast states, however, continue to have
fairly large Indian population, there
being Is, 900 in California III, 900 civ
ilized), 4,2O0 in Oregon 1900 civil
lied, J 5, OOOin Nevada g, 500 civilized,
2, 400 in Utah, and 10000 $4,000 civ
ilized) in Washington, All the trans.
Mississippi states have resident In.
dian population (Montana has 10, OOO),
but the Ohio Valley states have few,
there being but 200 in Ohio, 800 il
Indiana, and 100 in Kentucky II
Government bulletins the Indians
are treated with very little considera
ton, one item of the Indian popula
lion being Indians in prison, 1874"
Dyspepsia Proof.