There are within the limits of the United States between two hundred and fifty and three hundred thousand Indians, exclusive of thosc in Alaska tribes and bands, as entered in the statistical tables of the In dian Office Reports, number nearly three hundred. Onc of the most carefnl estimates which has been made of their numbers The namcs of the different and localities gives them as follows: "In Minnesota and States cast of the Mississippi, about 32,500; in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory, 70,650; in the T'erritories of Da- kota, Montaua, Wyoming, and Idalho, 65,000; in Nevada and the Territories of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, 84,000; and on the Pacific slope, 48,000."

Of these, 130,000 are tions, "receiving nothing from the Government exeept interest on their own moneys, or annuitics granted them in considera tion of the eession of their lands to the United States."^[1]

This fact alone would scem sufficient to dispose forever of the aceusation, so self-supporting on their owWn reserva persistently brought against the Indian, that he will not work.

Of the remainder, 84,000 are Government-the interest moncy duc them and their annui- ties, as provided by trcaty, being inadequate to their subsist- cnce on the reservations where they are confined. In many cases, however, these Indians furnish a large part of their sup-

partially supported by the