Bullying the “Quaker Indians.”—_Charles F. Lummis_, 1903. Out West. Vol. XVIII, pp. 669. The Sequoya League.—_Charles F. Lummis_, 1903. Out West. Vol. XVIII, pp. 743. Reports of the Board of Indian Commissioners, and Interior Department, 1871–1908, for full descriptions of investigations, etc. ----- Footnote 58: Handbook of American Indians, page 191, Vol I. Footnote 59: Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1886, page 46. Footnote 60: American Anthropology, page 599, volume VII. Footnote 61: Report of C. E. Kelsey, Special Agent, March 21, 1906. Footnote 62: The Federal census for 1850 showed a population of 92,597 Indians; State Census of 1852, 255,122 Indians, 31,266 being “domesticated.” Footnote 63: American Anthropologist, page 603, Vol. VII, No. 4. Footnote 64: Sec. 3662. Footnote 65: Sec. 3668. Footnote 66: Act of Feb. 28, 1887 (24 Statutes at Large, page 388). Footnote 67: In thirteen cases I found the land the Indians were occupying, that is, the more valuable little valleys, was outside of the reservation as laid out and in six of these cases the land occupied was not only unpatented and unprotected, but the land patented to the Indians was barren rocks, utterly worthless. In one case the reservation patented was six miles away from the land selected for the Indians in an entirely different township. In most cases the boundaries were not marked at all and the adjoining owners moved the lines over onto the Indians. Footnote 68: When Kelsey took charge he found on no reservation was there an adequate supply of water for irrigation and on most of them none at all. This in a country where irrigation is absolutely life. On no reservation was there any attempt made to protect the water supply, and land which controlled the water was carefully left out of the reservations in most cases. I think the surveyors must have done so knowingly. This meant fifteen or twenty years’ slow starvation for the Indians, and greatly increased difficulties later when we tried to correct things. I presume I have spent one-third of my time during the last ten years in fighting for things for the Southern California Indians, which ought to have been settled twenty years before. CHAPTER XXXII. A STATISTICAL TABLE. PREPARED BY MEN AND WOMEN IN THE FIELD The past forty years we have had statistics on Indian advancement in the Secretary of the Interior and Indian Office reports. Until late years, these were not detailed, but presented in condensed form the opinions of Agents, Superintendents and employees.