No. 85.-Table showing the number of Indians on reservations, &c.-Continued. Lapwai tribe Piegans.. Total 10, 755 (a) Independent. (b) Report of 1871. No schools (e) Rev. Father Giorda can only be with the Indians three or four months in the year. Rev. Ravelle gives medical attendance to the Indians personally. Rev. Jerome D. Aste is in constant attendance as a missionary. (d) These tribes (Pyramid Lake) are deserving, and strong efforts are made to educate and christianize them. (f) No schools or missionaries at this agency; the effort to make the farm self-sustaining being thought most beneficial at present. (e) Estimated. (a) Report of 1871. (b) Report of last year. Rev. E. C. Chirouse, P. Richard. E. McCas tay and four Sisters of Charity. (e) This school has an average attendance of about one third daily; those that attend learn well. As there are about four hundred children, several more schools are needed. (d) Estimated population. The Indians of these agencies are constantly leaving their reservations, after receiving rations, for their old haunts or hunting-grounds. The estimated population of all the bands of Apaches in Arizona, including those on reservations. is 10,000. (e) The tribes who do not adopt any religion are diminishing rapidly. (f) There is no means of knowing the exact number of Indians in this agency, but last year they were underestimated. |