FLAGSTAFF

According to Department of Labor data derived from the 1970 U.S. Census,¹ there were 1,324 Indians in Flagstaff which had a total of 26,117 people of all races. Indians constituted 5.1 percent of the population while the figure for blacks was 3.9 percent and Spanish-Americans, 18.5 percent. Because the number of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos were quite small in Flagstaff the Indian category can be used interchangeably with “other races” in the context of comparative analysis of census data.² The Flagstaff census data are very helpful in comparing a variety of indicators of well-being for whites, blacks, Mexican-Americans, and Indians.