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

Athapaskan males and females and also for the Eskimauan
females. Of the Eskimauan youth in 1910,
over 50 per cent were illiterate—51 for males and 58.1
for females— -while for the Athapaskan the percentages
for each sex were very nearly as large.
Table 91 shows illiteracy among the Indians in the
United States who were enumerated on the general
population schedule, and therefore without tribal
Table 91
ILLITERACY. 217
designation, for the 32 states having 100 or more
such Indians 10 years of age and over in 1910. The
table shows that of the 9,013 Indians 20 years of
age and over who were enumerated on the general
population schedule, 2,144, or 23.8 per cent, were
illiterate, but of the 4,689 such Indians 10 to 19
years of age, the munber illiterate was only 459, or
9.8 per cent.