This volume from the 1890 census includes the following information.

• Indian population in U. S. prior to 1890.
• Indians by sex and by States and Territories on and off reservations;
• Indians by stock and tribe;
• Indians on reservations—sex,  children under 1 year of age, number wearing citizens' dress, ability to read and speak English, children of school age, school accommodations;
• vital and social statistics;
• marital and criminal statistics.

General information includes:

• Historical review of Indians in United States;
• policy and administration of Indian affairs;
• condition of Indians in each State and Territory;
• Indian wars and their costs, and civil expenditures for Indians;
• depredation claims;
• liabilities of the United States to Indians;
• legal status of Indians;
• lands and reservations: Crops, stock, and miscellaneous products of Indian labor.
• Also: "Census of Indians in the Dominion of Canada , 1890"