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

In the United States, as shown by Table 14, there
were six stocks each with more than 1,000 members
in 1910, in which the full-bloods represented more
than 90 per cent of the total, namely, Zmiian, 99.1
Keresan, 98.7; Piman, 96.9; Tanoan, 95.7; Yuman,
93.5; and Athapaskan, 93 per cent; and among the
Navajo tribe of the last-named stock the full-bloods
constituted 99.3 per cent of the 22,455 members.
The Croatan, a much mixed group of composite
origin, with 5,865 members, had the smallest proportion
of full-bloods, 7.8 per cent, and the Iroquoian
stock, with 39,679 members, the next smallest pro-
portion, 30.1 per cent; but of the last-named stock
the full-bloods ia the Cherokee tribe, with 31,489
members, constituted only 21.9 per cent. Of the
other large stocks, the Shoshonean, with 16,842
members, had 87.1 per cent of full-bloods, but with a
range among the tribes from 62.9 per cent for the
Comanche to 99.9 per cent for the Hopi. Among the
Indians of Siouan stock, representiag a total of 32,941
members in 1910, the full-bloods constituted 68.4 per
cent, but with a range among the tribes from 24.2
per cent for the Iowa to 89 per cent for the Himkpapa
Sioux. The Muskhogean stock, with 29,191 members,
had 46.7 per cent of full-bloods in 1910, but for the
Choctaw tribe alone, with 15,917 members, the percentage
was 44.6. The Algonquian stock, with 40,975
members, had a slightly lower percentage, 44.9, but
among the Chippewa tribe, with 20,214 members, the
full-bloods constituted only 34.5 per cent.
The proportion of full-bloods often varies consid-
erably, and for some tribes greatly, in different states,
as shown by the figures in Table 14. For example,
while the Chippewa tribe, of Algonquian stock,
showed as a whole 34.5 per cent of fuU-bloods, tKo'se
in Minnesota showed 43.7 per cent as agaiust only 2
per cent for those in North Dakota and 17.3 per cent
for those in Montana.
In Alaska the Eskimauan stock, with 14,087 mem-
bers reported in 1910, had 91.3 per cent of full-bloods,
and no tribe, except the Aleut, with less than 87
per cent; the Athapaskan stock, with 3,916 members,
93 per cent; and the Tliagit stock, with 4,426 mem-
bers, 87.9 per cent. The Aleut tribe, with 1,451
members, had the smallest proportion of full-bloods,
68.8 per cent.
WkUe and Indian mixed-bloods.— ^The mixed-bloods
representing a mixture of white and Indian are subdivided
in Table 15 into those in whom the Indian
blood predominated, those of whom one parent was a
full-blood Indian and the other white—that is, the
half-breeds proper—and those who were more than
one-half white.
Of the 88,030 persons of mixed white and Indian
blood in the United States, 18,169, or 20.6 per cent,
were less than half white; 24,353, or 27.7 per cent,
half Indian and half white; and 43,937, or 49.9 per
cent— ^practically one-half of the total— ^were more
than half white. "
Thus about four-fifths of the Indian
and white mixed-bloods wer« at least half white. For
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499 mixed-bloods the ainoxmt of white blood was
imknown, and for 1,072 Mexican blood was reported.
The latler are classed with those for whom the degree
of mixture is unknown because, while a "Mexican" is
presumably white or a mixture of white and Indian,
there is no way of telling what proportion, if any, of
his blood is Indian.
Table 15
DEGREE OF MIXTTTBE.