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Show 270 BASIS OP AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1900 They have all adapted themselves measurably to the methods of civilized life. Reservations for some of the Six Nations were established in New York state, and are still kept up, while the remainder of the tribes are in Ontario, Wisconsin, and Indian Territory. The Cherokee, with the representatives of the Muskhogean family, the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole, make up the so- called civilized tribes in Indian Territory, and are all self-supporting and prosperous. The Siouan family occupies numerous reservations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian Territory, with a considerable number in Canada; they do not exhibit great adaptability to civilized life. The Athapascan Indians have remained comparatively untouched in the far north; while the southern representatives, the Apache and Navajo, in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico, have been much in contact with Europeans. The Navajo are self- supporting and prosperous, but the Apache are still primitive in life, though of late years peaceful enough in disposition. The Shoshonean tribes are distributed on reservations in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, California, and Arizona, with the Comanche in Indian Territory. The Pawnee are mainly in Indian Territory, The Pacific coast tribes, nearly all small and rapidly diminishing, are on numerous small reservations, visually near their original habitats. |
