Race in the USA in 1880 by state

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Table with data: https://i.imgur.com/YXbls7e.png

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BTW - when making that table I used not just Census Bureau data but also Office of Indian Affairs data.

Because the Census Bureau in 1880 counted only taxed Indians. Those not taxed were counted by OoIA.

Indians taxed - 66407
Indians not taxed - 240136
Indians in Alaska - 32996 (counted by special agent Ivan Petrof)
TOTAL - 339539

I suspect that those 600 with "unknown" race in Florida could also be Indians (Seminole remnants) - so:

TOTAL - 340139

I also confronted 1880 data with pre-contact data (but this data is incomplete, many tribes are missing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popul..._peoples_of_the_Americas#Estimations_by_tribe

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Comparison by macro-region (pre-contact / early contact population vs. 1880 and % remaining in 1880):

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Figures for Mexican Cession are without California, which is counted separately. This is how I counted it:

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BTW, between 1880 and 1890 Indian population further declined by 20% (from 340,000 to 274,000).

There is no exact Indian census data before 1880 (in 1870 numbers were based mostly on estimates). But I suppose that in previous decades (1870-1880, 1860-1870 and so on) losses were also at least 20% per decade, or higher. So perhaps in 1870 there were at least 425,000 Indians, in 1860 at least 531,000 Indians, in 1850 at least 664,000 - etc.
 

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