🇺🇸 Peoples of the United States
127 indigenous and tribal peoples who live in the United States, best known first.
Jicarilla ApacheJicarilla Dindéi
🇺🇸 United StatesSeminomadic Apache people of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado
About 3,000, Southern Athabaskan
CaddoHasí꞉nay
🇺🇸 United StatesDescendants of mound builders from the Piney Woods of the southern United States
About 6,000, Caddoan
Narragansett
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous people of Rhode Island, known for their ties to Narragansett Bay
About 3,000, Algonquian
Oglala LakotaOglála Lakhóta Oyáte
🇺🇸 United StatesLakota people living mainly on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
About 47,000, Siouan
PicurisP'įwweltha
🇺🇸 United StatesA Tiwa-speaking pueblo in northern New Mexico, known for micaceous pottery
About 83, Kiowa-Tanoan
MenomineeMamaceqtaw
🇺🇸 United StatesA Native nation rooted in Wisconsin, known for wild rice and forest stewardship
About 9,000, Algonquian
Pequot
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of Connecticut, known for survival and revival after near-destruction
About 2,000, Algonquian
IowaBáxoje
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of the Midwest, now in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma
About 3,000, Siouan-Catawban
QuapawOgáxpa
🇺🇸 United StatesDhegiha Siouan people from the lower Mississippi and Arkansas River region
About 6,000, Dhegiha Siouan
KawKaáⁿze
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of Kansas and Oklahoma, known as the "People of the South Wind"
About 4,000, Siouan-Catawban
Acomaʔáák’u
🇺🇸 United StatesPueblo people of western New Mexico, living atop a high mesa for centuries
About 3,000, Keresan
AmboneseOrang Ambon
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreMixed Austronesian-Melanesian people of Ambon and southwest Seram, Maluku, Indonesia
About 1.6 million, Austronesian
HunkpapaHúŋkpapȟa
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreA Lakota division known for their role at Little Bighorn and life at Standing Rock
About 571, Siouan
Dot Lake VillageKelt’aaddh Menn’
🇺🇸 United StatesA small Alaska Native village in the Southeast Fairbanks region
About 23
Tohono O'odham
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDesert-dwelling people of the Sonoran region in Arizona and Sonora
About 30,000
PassamaquoddyPeskotomuhkati
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreNative people of Maine and New Brunswick, known for fishing and the Wabanaki Confederacy
About 4,000, Algonquian
Minahasansuku Minahasa
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 7 moreAustronesian people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for their Christian heritage
About 1.4 million, Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian branch)
AtakapaIshak
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous bands of the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas
Historical, Language isolate
Pomo
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous people of northern California, known for basketry and diverse languages
About 10,000, Pomoan (Kulanapan)
CatawbaYe Iswąˀ
🇺🇸 United StatesRiver people of the Carolina Piedmont, known for pottery and resilience
About 3,000, Catawban
Yavapai
🇺🇸 United StatesHunter-gatherers of central Arizona with four distinct bands
About 2,000, Yuman (Upland Yuman branch), possibly Hokan
Chitimacha
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous people of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin with a federally recognized reservation
About 1,000, Language isolate (Chitimacha); others: Indo-European, Romanc
HavasupaiHavsuwʼ Baaja
🇺🇸 United StatesDescendants of the Grand Canyon, known for their blue-green waters and resilience
About 730, Yuman
QuechanKwatsáan
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of the lower Colorado River, Arizona and California
About 4,000, Yuman
HualapaiHwalbáy
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of northern Arizona, known as the 'people of the tall pines'
About 2,000, Yuman–Cochimí
CocopahXawiƚƚ kwñchawaay
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreIndigenous people of the lower Colorado River in Arizona and Baja California
About 1,000, Yuman
Nambé PuebloNa̧nbeˀ Ówîngeh
🇺🇸 United StatesA Tewa-speaking Pueblo community in northern New Mexico
About 568, Kiowa-Tanoan
Western ApacheNdee (Indé)
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreApache peoples of east-central Arizona, living on several reservations
About 14,000, Southern Athabaskan
SicanguSičhą́ǧu Oyáte
🇺🇸 United StatesSouthern Lakota nation centered on the Rosebud and Lower Brule Reservations
Siouan
MiniconjouMnikowoju
🇺🇸 United StatesA Lakota subdivision living in west-central South Dakota
Siouan
KalispelQl̓ispé
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous people of the Northwest Plateau, known for their camas-based traditions
About 400, Salishan
MaricopaPiipaash
🇺🇸 United StatesRiver Yuman people of Arizona, known for pottery and farming
About 805, Yuman
Sans ArcItázipčho
🇺🇸 United StatesA Lakota subdivision living on the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota
Siouan
TonkawaTickanwa•tic
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of Oklahoma and Texas, now based in Kay County, Oklahoma
About 700, Language isolate
UmatillaImatalamłáma
🇺🇸 United StatesSahaptin-speaking people of the Columbia Plateau in the Pacific Northwest
Sahaptin (Penutian family)
Achomawi
🇺🇸 United StatesNine bands of the Pit River tribe in northeastern California
About 2,000, Palaihnihan, possibly Hokan phylum
Piegan BlackfeetPiikáni
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreLargest group of the Blackfeet Confederacy in Montana and Alberta
About 105,000, Algonquian
TesuqueTeˀtsʼúgéh Ówîngeh
🇺🇸 United StatesA Tewa-speaking Pueblo community near Santa Fe, New Mexico
About 800, Tanoan
SihasapaSihásapa
🇺🇸 United StatesA Lakota division living on the Great Plains, now at Standing Rock and Cheyenne River
Siouan
Washoewa·šiw
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of the Lake Tahoe region in California and Nevada
About 2,000, Language isolate
Miccosukee
🇺🇸 United StatesHitchiti-speaking people of the Everglades, related to the Seminole
About 640, Muskogean
Quileutekʷòʔlí·yot̓
🇺🇸 United StatesSalmon fishers of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington
About 808, Chimakuan
Adai
🇺🇸 United StatesA Southeastern Woodlands people of Louisiana and Texas, now merged with the Caddo
Historical, Unclassified; possibly a language isolate
Pocomtuc
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreFarmers and fishers of the Connecticut River Valley in western Massachusetts
Historical, Algonquian
Cherokee NationᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Tsalagihi Ayeli)
🇺🇸 United StatesLargest federally recognized Cherokee tribe in the United States, based in Oklahoma
About 466,000
PenobscotPαnawάhpskewi
🇺🇸 United StatesWabanaki people of Maine, living along the Penobscot River
About 2,000, Algonquian
ChemehueviNüwüvi
🇺🇸 United StatesSouthernmost branch of the Southern Paiute in the Great Basin deserts
About 1,000, Uto-Aztecan (Numic branch)
Shinnecock
🇺🇸 United StatesAlgonquian-speaking nation on Long Island, New York, known for wampum and whaling
About 1,000, Algonquian