limitation, while it will narrow the scope, and perhaps obscure the results of the article, will be in the interests of accuracy.
The population of the United States in 1890 was enumerated by two sets of agencies, one for the people living on Indian reservations, in Indian Territory or Alaska, the other for the general population of the states and territories. The people enumerated by either means are classified by sex and race, the people enumerated in the general count are classified by sex and birthplace.
In attempting to distinguish the sexes of the races in the United States as a whole, by a combination of the results of the Indian census with those of the general census, one is embarrassed by differences of classification in the different volumes. For the complexity of the following table, therefore, the compiler does not feel himself responsible.
Table I.
| Race | No. of Males | No. of Females | Excess of | Per Cent. of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | |||
| White | 28,210,185 | 26,778,003 | 1,432,182 | 51.30 | 49.70 | |
| Negro | 3,725,561 | 3,744,479 | 18,918 | 49.87 | 50.13 | |
| Chinese[1] | 105,895 | 3,868 | 102,027 | 96.48 | 3.52 | |
| Japanese | 1,780 | 259 | 1,521 | 89.75 | 10.25 | |
| Indians (civilized) | 30,600 | 28,206 | 2,394 | 52.04 | 47.96 | |
| Indians (on Reservation)[2] | 108,115 | 106,686 | 1,429 | 50.33 | 49.67 | |
| Persons of various races on Reservations[3] | 74,213 | 61,916 | 12,297 | 54.52 | 45.48 | |
| Total | 32,256,349 | 30,723,417 | 1,532,932 | 51.22 | 48.78 | |
- ↑ Including 2288 persons in Alaska classed as Mongolians.
- ↑ This includes, also, the Indians of Indian Territory, and the Indian, Eskimo, and mixed population of Alaska.
- ↑ "It was not found practicable to follow out to the ultimate analysis the race of the persons among the Indians, but the great majority are white persons with a small number of negro descent and a mere handful of those of Asiatic origin." Eleventh Census "Indians," p. 81. Among the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory, only 28 per
