THE Indians within the limits of the United States, exclusive of those in Alaska, number, approximately, 300,000.

They may be divided, according to their geographical location or range, into five grand divisions, as follows in Minnesota, and States east of the Mississippi River, about 32,500 in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory, 70,650 in the Territories of Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, 65,000 in Nevada, and the Territories of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, * * * As 84,000 and on the Pacific slope, 48,000. As regards their means of support and methods of subsistence, they may be di vided as follows those who support themselves upon their own reservations, receiving nothing from the Government except in terest on their own moneys, or annuities granted them in consid eration of the cession of their lands to the United States, number about 130,000; those who are entirely subsisted by the Govern ment, about 31,000; those in part subsisted, 84,000 together, about 115,000; those who subsist by hunting and fishing, upon roots, nuts, berries, etc., or by begging and stealing, about 55,000.

The Indians of New York, remnants of the once powerful " Six Nations," number 5070. They occupy six reservations in the State, containing in the aggregate 68,668 acres. Two of these reservations, viz., the Alleghany and Cattaraugus, belonged origi nally to the Colony of Massachusetts but, by sale and assignment, passed into the hands of a company, the Indians holding a per petual right of occupancy, and the company referred to, or the individual members thereof, owning the ultimate fee. The same state of facts formerly existed in regard to the Tonawanda re-