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"