Indian population in the United States and Alaska. 1910 - RootsWeb

88 INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES.
MiwoTc.—The main and largest subdivision of this
stock. They have no distinctive popular name, being
usually known only by the meaningless term of" Digger
Indians." Their habitat, since known to Europeans
in the eighteenth century, has been in central California,
and may be roughly described as extending north
and south from the Cosumnes River to Fresno Creek,
and east and west from the crest of the Sierras to the
San Joaquin River. The Miwok, as enumerated in
1910, numbered 670, of which" 669 were in CaUfornia
and 1 in Nevada.
MUSKHOGEAN STOCK.
Stock as a whole.—One of the five largest stocks in
the United States. At the time first known to Euro-peans,
in the sixteenth century, it occupied a compact
single area comprising the largest part of Mississippi,
Alabama, and western and southern Georgia, together
with the northern half of Florida.
The Indians of the Muskhogean stock, as enumerated
in 1910, numbered 29,191. To this figure should be
added perhaps 1,500 for Indians of this stock reported
without distinction of tribe among the general population
in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, and
Oklahoma, making a probable total of between 30,000
and 31,000. The tribes of this stock, for which mem-
bers were reported, are as follows:
Alibamu. Choctaw. Koasati.
CMckasaw. Creek. Seminole.
AWbamu.—^A tribe closely related to the Koasati and
formerly belonging to the Creek Confederacy. Their
earliest known habitat was on the lower Alabama
River in Alabama. At the end of the eighteenth century
and in the early portion of the nineteenth century
part of the tribe removed to Louisiana, part to Polk
County, Tex., and part followed the Creeks to Indian
Territory. The renmants are now found in all three
of these localities, only those in Oklahoma being located
on any reservation. These latter were not enumerated
as Alibamu by the census. The number reported in
1910 was 298, of which 187 were in Texas and 111 in
Louisiana.
CMckasaw.—One of the larger tribes of this stock
whose early habitat was in northern Mississippi. By
the b^inning of the nineteenth century they began to
move westward to what is now Oklahoma, and in 1855
were given a separate reservation there.
The number enumerated in 1910 was 4,2p4, of which
4,191 were in Oklahoma. Comparison with earher
years is made difficult by the fact that' until 1898 the
Chickasaw were not returned in the reports of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs separate from freedmen
(Negroes) and intermarried whites.* Since 1898
the figures for this tribe in Oklahoma are as follows
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