The Indians of North America

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1900

The Indians of North America

It is estimated that there are on this continent “nearly 400,000 Indians. For 267,000 of these the United States is responsible. The Indians of this continent are divided among fifty-nine families, which are differentiated by their language stocks, and among them are eight hundred tribes. Some of these families are extinct, and others nearly so. Two-thirds of those now in existence are confined to the Pacific slope. The Algonquins, with whom the Pilgrim fathers fought, are the most important family. There are 100,000 survivors of these, but most of them live in Canada. There are 40,000 Eskimo, rapidly diminishing on account of disease and the use of liquor.”