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

STOCKS AND TRIBES, BY SEX, AGE, AND BLOOD. Ill
MISCELLANEOUS
There were 1,644 persons returned on the special
Indian, schedule for whom the stock or tribe was not
reported, or for whom the return was too indefinite to
admit of classifi.cation. These returns were as follows:
Sixteen were reported as having come from Alaska,
and were distributed among the states, as follows:
Oregon, 7; Pennsylvania, 6; Washington, 2; North
Dakota, 1.
One hundred and twenty-two were reported as
having come from California.
Two hundred and twenty-eight were returned as
"Cupeno," a name given to the former occupants of
the village of Cupa or Gupa, now located mainly at
Pala, San Diego County, Cal. They were in all
probability Shoshonean (Luiseno), but owing to the
iaclusion of some Diegueno they are not here included
under any stock.
Fifteen were reported as "Digger," a name long
used popularly for a large number of different Indian
tribes of California, Oregon, Nevada, and the whole
of the interior plateau region. The name has no
value and is very confusing. Special instructions
were given to enumerators not to use the name,
nevertheless 12 were reported from Pennsylvania,
2 from Nevada, and 1 from Utah. It was not pos-
sible to assign them to any definite tribe or stock.
Twenty-seven were returned simply as "Mission
Indians," a general term applied to all the coastal
Indians of southern California and which gives no
indication of tribal or stock affiHation. They were
ALGONQULAN STOCK.
Three members of this stock (see p. 72) belonging to
the Delaware tribe were enumerated in Alaska in
1910—2 males, 1 of fuU blood and 1 of mixed blood,
and 1 mixed-blood female.
ATHAPASKAN STOCK.
Stock as a whole.—One of the largest of the stocks
in North America, tribes belonging to it being found
from near the Arctic coast to the Mexican boundary
(see also p. 77). The area occupied by the northern
and territorially largest portion of the stock may be
described in general as including the whole interior of
Alaska and northern British Columbia, and the whole
of the Canadian territories of Yukon, Mackenzie, and
Athabasca. The tribal divisions are somewhat un-
certain. The Indians of the Athapaskan stock in
Alaska, as enumerated in 1910, numbered 3,916.
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INDIANS IN ALASKA.
The
tribes of this stock, for which members were reported
in Alaska, are as follows:
Ahtena. Kutchin. Tukkuthkutchin.
Hankutchin. Nahane. Unakhotana.
Kaiyuhkhotana. Nataitkutchin. Vuntakutcliiii.
Knaiakhotana. Tenankutchin.
probably Shoshonean or Yuman. They were mostly
Indian children at school and were distributed among
the states, as follows: Arizona, 10; Pennsylvania, 7;
Kansas, 5; California, 3; Oregon, 2.
Four Indians were returned as "Oswego." It ia
uncertain what was meant by this name, but it is
probable that these were Oswingo or Chenango, the
name by which a portion of the Nanticoke of Maryland
were known from their settling at Chenango,
N. Y., in the middle of the eighteenth century. They
later joiaed the Delaware and probably moved West
with them.
One hundred and eighteen Indians were returned
as "Pueblo" without distinction as to the particular
pueblo to which they belonged, and it was therefore
impossible to aflSliate them with their proper stock.
The majority were either Tanoan or Keresan, and a
few probably Hopi. Most of them were pupils at
Indian schools and were distributed among the states,
as follows: 36 in Kansas, 29 in Pennsylvania, 20 in
Arizona, 17 in California, 7 in Oklahoma, 5 in New
Mexico, and 1 each in Colorado, North Carolina,
Oregon, and South Dakota.
Twelve Indians were returned as "Redwood," a
name used locally in California for two different
tribes—the Huchnom, a YuMan tribe, and the
Whilkut, an Athapaskan tribe. They could not,
therefore, be counted with either. Of them, 11 were
in California and 1 in Kansas.
In addition to the above, 1,102 Indians were reported
on the schedule with the stock and tribe
simply as "unknown."
Comparison with census figures for previous years is
of doubtful value, as these were, owing to the unex-
plored character of the country, to a considerable
extent estimates. The number reported at the census
of 1890 was 3,520 and that of 1880 was 4,057.
Ahtena.—^A tribe occupying the basin of the Copper
River. The number enumerated in 1910 was 297.
The census of 1890 gave the number of this tribe as
150, but at the census of 1880 it was reported as 250.
HanTcutchin.—A tribe belonging to the Kutchin
division of this stock, and occupying the region along
the Yukon River for 50 or 75 nules above and below
the international boundary. The number enumerated
in 1910 was 127. The census of 1880 reported 106,
but it is probable that the returns were incomplete.
KaiyuhJchotana.—^A tribe occupying the region along
the Yukon River between the Anvik and Koyukuk
Rivers, and for some distance east and south toward
the Kuskokwim River. The number enumerated in
1910 was 160. Owing to some uncertainty in the
application of the name, comparison with the census
figures of earlier years is of Uttle value. In 1890 the
number reported was 1,140. In 1880 the census figure
was 1,222 and that of the Bureau of American Ethnology
953.