_Indians not on Reservations._--In addition to the Indians located at the three agencies named, there are probably not less than 20,000, including the Mission Indians (so called), the Coahuilas, Owen's River, and others, in the southern part of the State; and those on the Klamath, Trinity, Scott, and Salmon Rivers, in the northern part. The Mission Indians, having been for the past century under the Catholic missions established on the California coast, are tolerably well advanced in agriculture, and compare favorably with the most highly civilized tribes of the East. The Coahuilas and others inhabiting the south-eastern and eastern portions of the State, and those in the north, support themselves by working for white settlers, or by hunting, fishing, begging, and stealing, except, it may be, a few of the northern Indians, who go occasionally to the reservations and the military posts in that section for assistance in the way of food. There are also about 4,000 Owen's-River and Manache Indians east of the Sierras, whom the settlers would gladly see removed to a reservation, and brought under the care of an agent. The department has under consideration the propriety of establishing a new reservation, upon which shall be concentrated these and numerous other Indians, in which event the Tule-River agency could advantageously be discontinued. +---------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note | | | | Some inconsistent spelling in the | | original document has been retained. | | | | Typographical errors corrected in the text: | | | | Page 40 goverment changed to government | | Page 100 carcer changed to career | | Page 186 hererofore changed to heretofore | | Page 259 favororably changed to favorably | +---------------------------------------------+ End of Project Gutenberg's The Indian Question (1874), by Francis A. Walker