The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-13
INDIANS
 ARE DYING OFF

ARL DgslVlJ Vl I X much lower rate or growth for Lhe Indian population than for the white. op Increasing admix,ure of white blood; decreasing vitality Of mll-blood lndians, indicating 9 teu. dency io disappear altogether n. creasing attendance at school end de- creasing iherrcy; n incerase in the ! percentage of self.supporting. 9 de- crease ip number of Indian reservation Indians These are some salient facts SO, forth In the special report on the Indian population Of ihe United States and Alaska, soon to be Issued : by Director sam. T.. Rogers, of Che ! Bureau Of Che Census. Department of | Commerce. and compiled under the direction of William C Hunt. chief stoustician for population This re- port brings together all the principal statistics relating to the Indian pop ! ulaton which were collected at the ! last census.
 The Indian population of Che Unit ed States exclusive of Alaska and the insular possessions. in 1910 was 265.6SS, representing an increase Of 174S0. or 2 per cent over Che num- ber reported for 1890 when the cen- Isus Bureau made its first enumora- tion of Indians.
 or the total Indian population, 7i,- ! S25. or 2S per cent were found in one State, Oklahoma; 16O107 or sixty per cent In five States. Oklahoma Ari- zona. New Mexico, South Dakota and California; and 255.46S, or 96 per cent in 22 States. five Of which Wisconsin. North Carolina. Aiichi- gan. New York and Mississippi--lie east of the Mississippi river The pro portion which Indians formed of the total population was, however great. est iu Arizona. where it was 14.3 per cent.
 There are 2SO Indian tribes com prising 52 linguistic stocks The most important tribes numerically are the Cherokee, with S1.48s members in 1910. the Navajo. with 22,455 the Chippewa. with 2O,214; the Choctaw, with 15.917; and the Teton Sioux, with 14.2S4. These five tribes were che only ones represented by more than 10000 members each; A tribes had more than 1000 members each; A tribes had more than 1000 mem bers each.
 Sex and Martial Condition
 The ratio of males to females in the Indian population was 10S.5 to 100 a somewhat lower ratio than the cor responding one for the whites 106.s Go 100
 or the S0.S83 male Indians l5 years of age and over in the United States in 1910. 574 per cent were married and 7.4 per cent were widowed or divorced.
 As compared with whites and Ne groes of the United States Indians marry somewhat earlier in life This tendency toward early marriages is due, in part at least Co the fact that the male reservation Indian is ire quently as assured of a iiylihood at the age of 10 as he is later In life
 The practice of polygamy stll ex- ists, though to a comparatively slight extent, among American Indians Ac. cordlng to the enumeration -0f 1910 there were 49f Indians Ewing in poly gamy. and in S7 masses more than two wives were reported. or these poly gamous males 327 were Navaios.
 Proportion of Mixed eloods
 or the total Indian population of the United States in 1910. l5O,o5O, or 565 per cent. were reported as fun bloods, and 93,42S, or 35.2 per cent, as mixed bloods For the remainder no Information on this point was giv- en. but it is probable that the major ity were of mixed blood Of the mixed bloods, SS.OSO. or over 94 per cent. represented mixture of white and Indian blood. The largest pro- portion of full bloods was found in New Mexico. where it was 99 per cent of the total Indian population. Other states in which the proportions were high were Utah. with 95 per cent; Arizona with 9f2 per cent Colorado. with 9S.4 per cent: and Mississippi. with 916 per cent. The lowest percentage of full bloods in any State having an Indian popula- ton of at least 1000 was found in North Carolina. 191
 Feeundity and Vitality
 An interesting and significant fact brought out by the statistics is that children born of mixed parentage are more numerous and more likely Go survive than are those born Of mar riages for which data on fecundity and vitality were tabulated are pro. portion resulting in no children for marriages between full bloods. 1O7I per cent Furthermore. the figures show that the greater the proportion of white blood in any class of mixed marriages, the smaller the percent age of sterlity.
 With reference to vitality Of off spring, the statistics show that for all classes of marriage. the proportion