NEW: March 3: at the bottom a sum of all the people counted is output.

There are about 8870 uploaded so far. DO YOU HAVE PHOTOS? if so contact me at our home page. We plan a parallel DB with photos. You CAN use your browser's "find" function at this time to search for a name. If it's not here yet, well it's not here–YET!

We are using entries at the tail end of the list to hold notes and extra info on missing entries and so on.

NEW: At the moment, special thanks to Dixie (Shoshone) who is entering data as it is scanned by me at the National Archives in Washington D.C. and Zack, a networking pro/guru who straightened out some garbled code and made some suggested streamlining of our old PHP and SQLstyle to facilitate maintainability and scalability in a meet at Fairfax, Virginia on March 5.

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Don't forget, when this census was compiled around 1928, the network was down : ) This census was a tool for the engineered "settlement" of the fact that about 18 million acres of land decreed as reservations by treaty (http://www.indiancanyon.org/A18TreatyList.html#treaty1) were, for the most part, ignored by the U.S. This census was part of that land claims settlement to "clean up" title to much of California under a cloud of ambiguous legality and under valid (uncomfortable as that may be) Indian title in 1924.

FYI - formal BIA enrollment of individual California Indians seems to have ended in the early 1950's. Since then it has been a battle on a one-on-one basis to be enrolled, especially for people from non-federally recognized tribes. From Pat Bratland, Table Mtn Yokut on this and on the 1928 census here..."what was told me by my grandfather when he was enrolling everyone…..my younger sister is not included on the census of 1952 as she was born after the BIA cut it off…"My grandfather was saying everyone was scrambling to register because of the deadlines the government gave to the Indians and one other footnote, I remember this very well, use it sometime when I’m doing presentations……in 1928 when my grandfather was scrambling to get everyone registered, he was up in Yosemite at the time, so half the family was registered in Madera and the other half was registered in Fresno, which is a problem for those doing research….Anyway, he along with other folks in the area, told everyone “make sure you get on the enrollment, Indians need to be counted so they can get their land back”……..he said this Russ, because that is what the census folks were telling the Indians….also see Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1885-1940
From Mary Frances Morrow, Reference Archivist, Indian Records, NARA.

http://genealogy.about.com/od/native_american/a/census_rolls.htm

The census itself has many typos and errors and I have been plugged away at for about 16 years, starting with DOS, Mac System 6, various computer and software and we are now using mySQL/PHP.

NOTE: Messed up/questionable data notes info is/will be at the end of the table starting with number 15,000 in version 2 - these will be repaired/resolved as we develop this.