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Show 210 WESTERN WILDS. Full bloods . . ( CREEK NATION.) . . 9,000 Whites and mixed bloods ..... 1,000 Freedmen ....... 4,000 Seruinoles ....... 2,000 Total Creek citizens . . . 16,000 Pure Choctaws . ( CHOCTAW NATION.) . . 10,000 Mixed ....... 4,000 Whites 1,000 Chickasaws ....... 5,000 Freedmen ....... 2,000 Total Choctaw citizens .... 22,000 Osages west of 96 . ( MINOR TRIBES.) . . 3,000 Kaws, west of 96 . . . . . . 600 Unassigned, perhaps . . . . . 3,400 Total minor tribes .... 7,000 Grand total ..... 63,000 The Choctaws and Cherokees have the greatest number of intelli-gent men, but the Creeks are just now doing the most for the rising generation. They have three Mission High Schools, under control respectively of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches. In 1872 there were in the whole Territory a hundred and sixty com-mon schools the high average of one to every four hundred of the population. The number now reaches nearly two hundred. The present weakness of these people is their imperfect land tenure. The land is held in common by the whole tribe, but whatever area any citizen incloses with a lawful fence is his while he occupies it. He may be said to own the improvements, but not the land. Any thing may be removed at the owner's will ; lience there is practically no real estate, no conservative landed interest the only true founda-tion for a progressive society and a stable civil structure. The herder, hunter or explorer, from Kansas or Texas, rides through a beautiful tract, and, when he asks who owns it, the only answer is : " The Injuns it's Injun land;" that is, in his estimation, nobody's land, if he can by force or fraud get a foothold. If he were told that it was the property of John Johnnycake or William Beaverdam, or any other individual, with a patent title on which he could sue and be sued, the case would be very different to him. A strong party, therefore, is rising up, agitating for this reform, which is the distinctive feature of the Ocmulkee Constitution. There are a score of reasons why a little more time should be given the Indians, and why we should not now throw open this country to |