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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 Patt 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