CAKE POLICE

Chances that an American Indian will die before the age of 45: 1 in 3

U.S. Office of Technology Assessment

Estimated percentage change in the size of Canada’s Native-American population since 1500: +22

Library of Indian Affairs (Quebec)/U.S. Bureau of Indian and Northern Affairs

Estimated percentage change since then in the size of the Native-American population of the U.S.: -76

Library of Indian Affairs (Quebec)/U.S. Bureau of Indian and Northern Affairs

Estimated percentage change in the Native American population of California during the 1850s: -65

Russell Thornton, American Indian Holocaust and Survival, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman)

Percentage change, since 1980, in the number of people calling themselves “American Indian” on the census: +38

U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

Percentage change, since 1983, in the number of Harvard freshmen identifying themselves as “Native American”: +100

Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

Number of U.S. presidents besides Bill Clinton who have made an official visit to an Indian reservation since 1937: 0

Bureau of Indian Affairs (Washington)/Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library (Hyde Park, N.Y.)

Number of American Indian tribes that own a casino license: 90

National Indian Gaming Commission (Washington)

Number that are members of the InterTribal Bison Cooperative: 28

InterTribal Bison Cooperative (Rapid City, S.D.)

Percentage of households on U.S. Indian reservations that have phone service: 47

Federal Communications Commission

Chance that a black woman living in the U.S. will be a victim of violence this year: 1 in 18

Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington)

Chance that a Native American woman will be: 1 in 10

Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington)