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ALLOTMENT TABLES

TABLE 1: Land and agriculture data for 113 reservations, agencies and tribal units, 1887 and 1904 [sources]

1887 1904
Tribal land (acres) 100,217,200 48,799,420
Land allotted 6,750,787
Tillable land 8,586,216
Cultivated land 230,005 348,369
Grains (bushels) 2,150,752 2,796,310
Cattle 98,354 288,909

Percentage changes between 1887 and 1904:

Tribal land -52.69
Tribal and allotted land -44.57
Cultivated land +51.46
Grain produced +30.02
Cattle +193.74


TABLE 2: Units with allotment before the General Allotment Act (18) [sources]

1887 1904
Tribal land (acres) 978,636 170,406
Allotted land 695,476
Tillable land 428,630
Cultivated land 43,998 30,731
Grains (bushels)582,696 331,885
Cattle6,091 8,038

Percentage changes between 1887 and 1904:

Tribal land -92.59
Tribal and allotted land -11.53
Cultivated land -31.15
Grain produced -43.04
Cattle +31.97


TABLE 3: Units allotted after the General Allotment Act on which land allotted by 1904 was less than tillable land reported in 1887 (13) [sources]

1887 1904
Tribal land (acres) 13,208,040 2,681,053
Allotted land 2,093,289
Tillable land 5,103,960
Cultivated land 31,075 58,657
Grains (bushels) 259,095 880,321
Cattle 13,617 28,680

Percentage changes between 1887 and 1904:

Tribal land -79.30
Tribal and allotted land -73.85
Cultivated land +88.76
Grain produced +239.77
Cattle +110.62


TABLE 4: Units allotted after the General Allotment Act on which allotted land exceeded tillable land (28) (excluding those for which no tillable land was reported in 1887) [sources]

1887 1904
Tribal land (acres) 15,281,510 3,768,531
Allotted land 3,020,286
Tillable land 1,049,040
Cultivated land 43,692 36,116
Grains (bushels) 572,947 305,468
Cattle 20,559 30,996

Percentage changes between 1887 and 1904:

Tribal land -93.34
Tribal and allotted land -63.57
Cultivated land -17.34
Grain produced -46.68
Cattle +50.77


TABLE 5: Units unallotted in 1904 (47) [sources]

1887 1904
Tribal land (acres) 64,144,24040,085,460
Tillable land 2,004,586
Cultivated land 100,729 180,727
Grains (bushels) 666,467 1,078,532
Cattle 47,274 200,409

Percentage changes between 1887 and 1904:

Tribal land -37.51
Cultivated land +79.42
Grain produced +61.83
Cattle +323.93


LINK TO TABLE 6

Sources for Tables 1-6:

United States, Department of the Interior, Report of the Secretary of the Interior, v. 2 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887) 448-75.

United States, Department of the Interior, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900: Indian Affairs (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900) 558-600.

United States, Department of the Interior, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1904: Indian Affairs, Part I (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905) 544-65, 616-31.

Tables 1-6 do not include the following units because of a lack of data for them: Five Civilized Tribes, Malheur, Uinta Valley, St. Regis, Oil Springs, Kansas Chippewa and Munsee and Vermillion Lake, Red Lake, Mille Lac, and Isabella Chippewa.


TABLE 7: Indian people farming or raising stock in 1915 on reservations substantially allotted between 1900 and 1910, as a proportion of the population and a proportion of the number of able-bodied men



Reservation
Farmers and
Livestock
Raisers


Population

Percent of
Population


Able Men

Percent of
Able Men
Cheyenne River 500 2,708 18.5 585 85.5
Coeur d'Alene 93 834 11.2 212 43.9
Colville 570 2,468 23.1 573 99.5
Crow 279 1,699 16.4 400 69.7
Fort Berthold 180 1,154 15.6 254 70.9
Kiowa 1,003 4,410 22.7 1,024 97.9
Klamath 100 1,145 8.7 284 35.2
Leech Lake 365 1,754 97.9 373 20.8
Lower Brule 90 481 18.7 118 76.3
Rosebud 700 5,519 12.7 1,139 61.5
Shoshone 278 1,705 16.3 401 69.3
Spokane 87 611 14.2 140 62.1
Standing Rock 733 3,434 21.4 750 97.7
Uintah and Ouray 199 1,161 17.4 299 66.6
White Earth 300 6,217 4.8 927 32.4
Totals: 5,477 35,300 15.5 7,480 73.2

Source: United States, Interior Department, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1915 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915), 82-89, 125-29)


TABLE 8: Original and final homestead entries, 1900-1915

Original
Entries
Year of
Completion
Final
Entries
Percent
Completed
1900 61,270 1905 24,621 40.2
1901 68,648 1906 25,246 36.8
1902 98,829 1907 27,202 27.5
1903 80,188 1908 29,059 36.2
1904 69,175 1909 25,510 36.9
1905 70,344 1910 23,253 33.1
1906 89,600 1911 25,908 28.9
1907 93,957 1912 24,326 25.9
1908 87,057 1913 53,252 61.2
1909 75,445 1914 48,724 64.6
1910 98,598 1915 37,343 37.9
Totals: 893,111 344,444 38.6

Sources for Table 8:

United States, House, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900, 56th Cong., 2nd sess., 1900, H. Doc. 5, Serial 4100, 12.

United States, House, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1901, 57th Cong., 1st sess., 1901, H. Doc. 5, Serial 4289, 326.

United States, House, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1902, 57th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 5, 1902, Serial 4457, 246.

United States, House, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1903, 58th Cong., 2nd sess., 1903, H. Doc. 5, Serial 4644, 556.

United States, House, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1904, 58th Cong., 3rd sess., 1904, H. Doc. 5, Serial 4797, 621-22.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1905, 59th Cong., 1st sess., 1905, H. Doc. 5, Serial 4958, 486.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1906, 59th Cong., 2nd sess., 1906, H. Doc. 5, Serial 5117, 520.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1907, 60th Cong., 1st sess., 1907, H. Doc. 5, Serial 5295, 243.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1908, 60th Cong., 2nd sess., 1908, H. Doc. 1046, Serial 5452, 140.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1909, 61st Cong., 2nd sess., 1909, H. Doc. 107, Serial 5746, 108.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1910, 61st Cong., 3rd sess., 1910, H. Doc. 1006, Serial 5975, 140.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1911, 62nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1911, H. Doc. 120, Serial 6222, 155.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1912, 62nd Cong., 3rd sess., 1912, H. Doc. 933, Serial 6408, 175.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1913, 63rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1913, H. Doc. 1009, Serial 6633, 197.

United States, House, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1914, 63rd Cong., 3rd sess., 1914, H. Doc. 1475, Serial 6814, 198.

United States, Interior Department, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1915 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915), 316, 287.


TABLE 9: Changes in the numbers of Indian people farming between 1911 and 1915 on reservations substantially allotted between 1900 and 1910


Reservation

1911

1915
Percentage
of Change
Cheyenne River 500 500 0.0
Coeur d'Alene 65 93 43.1
Colville 383 570 48.8
Crow 300 279 -7.0
Fort Berthold 100 180 80.0
Kiowa 821 1,003 22.2
Klamath 75 100 33.3
Leech Lake 306 365 19.3
Lower Brule 75 90 20.0
Rosebud 900 700 -32.2
Shoshone 137 278 102.9
Spokane 75 87 16.0
Standing Rock 558 733 31.4
Uintah and Ouray 120 199 65.8
White Earth 300 300 0.0
Totals 6,626 7,392 11.6

Source: United States, Interior Department, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1915 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915), 126-29.


TABLE 10: Tillable land and allotments as of June 30, 1915, on reservations substantially allotted between 1900 and 1910, showing tillable land as a percentage of allotted land

Reservation Allotted Land Tillable Land Percentage
Cheyenne River 920,750 5,260 0.6
Coeur d'Alene 104,077 64,640 62.1
Colville 51,653 98,480 190.7
Crow 479,028 153,307 32.0
Fort Berthold 229,554 155,475 67.7
Kiowa 547,236 500,000 91.4
Klamath 207,374 10,000 4.8
Leech Lake 47,772 7,526 15.8
Lower Brule 187,356 45,696 24.4
Rosebud 1,642,889 1,217,266 74.1
Shoshone 221,832 135,339 61.0
Spokane 64,794 35,775 55.2
Standing Rock 1,387,935 1,048,239 75.5
Uintah and Ouray 39,620 82,328 207.8
White Earth 710,466 203,000 28.6
Totals 6,842,336 3,762,331 55.0

Source: United States, Interior Department, Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1915 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915), 79-82, 115-19.