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

STOCKS AND TRIBES, BY SEX, AGE, AND BLOOD. 89
Florida and a small band, mainly of Negro blood, are
located in southwestern Texas.
The number enumerated in 1910 was 1,729, dis-
tributed as follows: Oklahoma, 1,503; Texas, 200;
Florida, 16; and scattering, 10. The number in
Florida is much too small. The majority of the tribe
are located in inaccessible portions of the ETerglades
and are very hostile stiE toward the whites, allowing
no persons in their territory. The number of Seminoles
thus unenumerated is estimated by a competent
observer, who has been one of the few whites to be
allowed to pass through the region, at about 200 to
250. This would bring the tribal number in the United
States to nearly 2,000.
This is the only one of the Five Civilized Tribes
which, according to the figures in the reports of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, shows a decrease in
population. These figures, like those of the other Five
Civilized Tribes, are based upon the enrollment under
the Dawes Commission, and are much larger than
those reported by the census, the figures for the tribe
in Oklahoma in 1910 beiag 2,137 from the Indian
reports and 1,503 from the census.
PIMAN STOCK.
Stock as a whole.— ^The area occupied by this stock
in the United States lies wholly in southwestern
Arizona. The number enumerated in 1910 was .8,607.
The tribes of this stock, for which members were
reported, are as follows:
Mayo. Papago. Yaqui.
Opata. Pima.
Mayo.—A tribe whose habitat is on the Mayo Eiver,
m Sinaloa, Mexico. A small niunber have in recent
years emigrated to Arizona where they are now living,
mainly with the Pima and Papago. The Mayo in the
United States, as enumerated in 1910, numbered 40,
aU in Arizona.
Opata.—A tribe whose habitat comprises the region
of the upper Yaqui and Sonora Rivers, in Sonora and
western Chihuahua, Mexico. A small number have
emisrated to the United States, where the number
enumerated in 1910 was 5, all in Arizona.
Papago.—^A tribe which has long been closely asso-
ciated with the Pima. Their habitat, since the sixteenth
century, has been the region south of Tucson,
Ariz., extending southward into Mexico. For many
years they have been in part gathered on the Gila
Bend and Papago Reservations.
The number enumerated in 1910 was 3,798, of which
3,785 were in Arizona. Figures for comparison are
uncertain back of 1900. Between 1870 and 1890 the
Papago were estimated variously at from 5,000 to
7,000. In 1900 there were 1,789 actually enumerated
on the reservation, and an estimated 2,100 others who
were nomadic. In 1909 there were 1 ,755 on the reserve
and 2,225 returned as nomadic. In the last 10 years,
therefore, the Papago have apparently remained nearly
stationary in nimiber, but have probably decreased
somewhat since 1870.
Pima.—One of the largest tribes of this stock in the
United States. Their habitat, since they first became
Imown to Europeans in the sixteenth century, has been
in the valleys of the Salt and GUa Rivers in southern
Arizona. For many years they have been located on
the Gila and Salt River Reservations.
The number enumerated in 1910 was 4,236, of which
4,167 were in Arizona. The following table, compiled
from the reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
gives comparative figures for this tribe in Arizona
back to 1890, all figures prior to that year being merely
estimates
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TEAR.