Eschbach K
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison 53706.
Demography. 1993 Nov;30(4):635-52.
The census-enumerated American Indian population dispersed rapidly between 1930 and 1990. Changes in ethnic classification account for most of the change. In the 1980 count, 10 states with historically large Indian populations account for 53% of births of Indians between the ages of 10 and 80, compared with 72% of the first enumerations of the same cohorts. Migration further reduced the share of these states to 46% of Indian residents in these cohorts. Study of the dispersal of the Indian population should focus primarily on the new emergence of the expression of Indian identity, rather than on migration from former population centers.
在1930年至1990年间，人口普查所统计的美国印第安人口迅速分散。种族分类的变化是造成这种变化的主要原因。在1980年的统计中，历史上印第安人口众多的10个州占10至80岁印第安人出生人口的53%，而在对同一队列的首次普查中这一比例为72%。移民进一步使这些州在这些队列中的印第安居民比例降至46%。对印第安人口分散情况的研究应主要关注印第安身份认同表达的新出现，而非从前人口中心的迁移。
