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Show XIV REPORT OF THE OOMMIS8IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. same as white me11 do. Say to them that labor ia not degrading, but on the contrary is ennobling, and that if they ever expect to become rich and powerful a8 the white races, they must learn the lcasons of iudustw aud ecouomg. H. PRICE. Conmtisaidner. IXDIAN AGENCIES AND POPULATION. The following table shows the location of the several agencies and the popillation: - States and Territories. - - p~ . . . . . . . . . . . Arieooar ............................................................................... Oaliforni.. ........................................ .................................... Colorado.. .................................................................................................................................................... .. , 925 Dakota Idaho ............................................................................... IndianTerritory. ................................................................... Indian Temicory (5 civilized iribea). .................................................. lows. ............................................................................................................................................................. ... &map 1 633 Miohirm .............................. ................................................. 1 1 9 795 Minnesota ............................................................................. 8 1 4:332 Montana .............................................................................. 5 18.705 Nebraska (including 201 attached to Kensaa agenay, but atill living in Nebraska) ..... 4.014 Nevada ............................................................................... 7,331 New Mexico.. .......................................................................... 23 527 Xew Par..k. .................................................................................................................................................... < 116 Orsgor~ ' 4510 ............................................................................... Utah ' Taxn.s.... ............................................................................... ! (9 I* 2,371 Washington Territory.. ............................................................ : 13,286 Wisoonsin ............................................................................ ' 2 7,758 Vyoming ............................................................................. 1 1 I 1,732 !-,- Total number of agenoies.and number of Indiana at ageuoiea.. ................. / 59 240,832 *hainns in oharge of a militsry officer and not on s reservation. > 1 ' - To this sl~ouldb e added those not under control of agents, living principall~inth e Territories of Arizona, Idaho, and Utah, and the States of California, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina,, Oregon, and Wisconsin, numbering 15,434, making total number of Indians in the United States, exolusive of those in Alaska, 262,366. LIQUOR IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY. The sale and use of liquor has heen brought before the public 80 long as the chief cause of poverty and crime, that when it is stated that nearly all the serious crimes committed in the Indian country are traceable directly to the selling and drinking of whisky, the statement is accepted as trutll, as a matter of course: It provokes no comment, and appears to have little effect on legislation. Pet, td-day, whisky is the one great curse of the Indian country, the prolific source of disorder, tnauult, crime, and disease, and if its sale could be utterly prohibited,'pewe and quiet would allnost uniformly exist among the Indians from the Missis-sippi to the Pacific. Whisky is furnished the Indians by disrepntable |
