Results for "federally recognized"
52 peoples found.
- Federal recognition Glossary
ComancheNʉmʉnʉʉ
🇺🇸 United StatesHorse-centered Plains people of Oklahoma and the Southern Plains
About 17,000, Uto-Aztecan (Numic branch)
ShawneeŠaawanooaki
🇺🇸 United StatesAlgonquian-speaking people now based in Oklahoma, once of the Ohio Valley
About 8,000, Algonquian
KiowaǤáuigú
🇺🇸 United StatesHorse-centered Plains nation of southwestern Oklahoma
About 12,000, Tanoan
PawneeChatiks si Chatiks
🇺🇸 United StatesMatrilineal Plains people now based in Oklahoma, known for earth lodges and buffalo hunts
About 7,000, Caddoan
PotawatomiBodéwadmi
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreKeepers of the fire in the Great Lakes and Plains, with many recognized bands today
About 43,000, Algonquian
Nez Percenimíipuu
🇺🇸 United StatesPlateau people of Idaho known for salmon fishing and Appaloosa horses
About 4,000, Sahaptian (Plateau Penutian)
Kewa PuebloKewa
🇺🇸 United StatesA Keres-speaking Pueblo community in northern New Mexico
About 2,000, Keresan
Jemez PuebloWalatowa
🇺🇸 United StatesPueblo people of northern New Mexico, known for running and Towa language
About 2,000, Tanoan
Santa Clara PuebloKhaˀpʼoe Ówîngeh
🇺🇸 United StatesA Tewa-speaking Pueblo on the Rio Grande, famed for black and red pottery
About 930
CochitiKotyit
🇺🇸 United StatesKeres-speaking Pueblo people of northern New Mexico
About 528, Language isolate
ChiricahuaNde
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreApache people of the US Southwest and northern Mexico
About 4,000, Southern Athabaskan
PojoaquePʼohsu̧wä̧geh Ówîngeh
🇺🇸 United StatesA Tewa-speaking Pueblo community in northern New Mexico
About 2,000, Tanoan
DakotaDakȟóta Oyáte
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSioux-speaking people of the northern Plains, with many bands across the US and Canada
About 20,000, Siouan-Catawban
Ho-ChunkHoocąk
🇺🇸 United StatesSiouan-speaking Native people of Wisconsin and Nebraska, known for effigy mounds
About 12,000, Siouan
Oglala LakotaOglála Lakhóta Oyáte
🇺🇸 United StatesLakota people living mainly on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
About 47,000, Siouan
Narragansett
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous people of Rhode Island, known for their ties to Narragansett Bay
About 3,000, Algonquian
CaddoHasí꞉nay
🇺🇸 United StatesDescendants of mound builders from the Piney Woods of the southern United States
About 6,000, Caddoan
MenomineeMamaceqtaw
🇺🇸 United StatesA Native nation rooted in Wisconsin, known for wild rice and forest stewardship
About 9,000, Algonquian
QuapawOgáxpa
🇺🇸 United StatesDhegiha Siouan people from the lower Mississippi and Arkansas River region
About 6,000, Dhegiha Siouan
IowaBáxoje
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of the Midwest, now in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma
About 3,000, Siouan-Catawban
KawKaáⁿze
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of Kansas and Oklahoma, known as the "People of the South Wind"
About 4,000, Siouan-Catawban
Tohono O'odham
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDesert-dwelling people of the Sonoran region in Arizona and Sonora
About 30,000
Chitimacha
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous people of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin with a federally recognized reservation
About 1,000, Language isolate (Chitimacha); others: Indo-European, Romanc
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
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
TonkawaTickanwa•tic
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of Oklahoma and Texas, now based in Kay County, Oklahoma
About 700, Language isolate
Miccosukee
🇺🇸 United StatesHitchiti-speaking people of the Everglades, related to the Seminole
About 640, Muskogean
Cherokee NationᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Tsalagihi Ayeli)
🇺🇸 United StatesLargest federally recognized Cherokee tribe in the United States, based in Oklahoma
About 466,000
ChemehueviNüwüvi
🇺🇸 United StatesSouthernmost branch of the Southern Paiute in the Great Basin deserts
About 1,000, Uto-Aztecan (Numic branch)
PeoriaPeewaalia
🇺🇸 United StatesA Native American people of the Illinois Confederation, now in Oklahoma
About 4,000, Algonquian
Shinnecock
🇺🇸 United StatesAlgonquian-speaking nation on Long Island, New York, known for wampum and whaling
About 1,000, Algonquian
Isleta PuebloShiewhibak
🇺🇸 United StatesA Southern Tiwa pueblo in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande Valley
About 2,000, Tanoan
Patwin
🇺🇸 United StatesSouthern Wintun people of California's Sacramento Valley
About 3,000, Penutian
Choctaw Nation of OklahomaChahta Okla
🇺🇸 United StatesA federally recognized Choctaw tribal nation in southeastern Oklahoma
About 223,000
Tulalip Tribesdxʷlilap
🇺🇸 United StatesCoast Salish peoples of the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State
About 3,000, Central Salish
Suquamishsuq̓ʷabš
🇺🇸 United StatesA Coast Salish tribe on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington
About 1,000, Salishan
Squaxin Island Tribe
🇺🇸 United StatesDescendants of South Puget Sound Coast Salish, based in western Washington
About 1,000, Salishan
Ysleta del Sur PuebloChiawipia
🇺🇸 United StatesSouthern Tiwa Pueblo community in El Paso, Texas
About 4,000, Kiowa-Tanoan
Skokomishsqʷuqʷóbəš
🇺🇸 United StatesSalmon fishers and cedar artisans of Hood Canal, Washington
About 730, Coast Salish
Tunica-BiloxiYoroniku-Halayihku
🇺🇸 United StatesA federally recognized tribe in central Louisiana, descended from Tunica, Biloxi and others
About 951
Quinaultkʷínayɬ
🇺🇸 United StatesSouthwestern Coast Salish people of Washington's Pacific coast
About 1,000
Muckleshootbəqəlšuɬ
🇺🇸 United StatesDescendants of Duwamish and Upper Puyallup peoples in Washington's river valleys
About 3,000, Salishan
Blackfeet NationAamsskáápipikani / ǎmssk̇ǎaṗiiṗiik̇ǔni, Pikuni / ṗiik̇ǔni
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreA Plains tribe based on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana
About 17,000, Algonquian
Ak-Chin Indian CommunityʼAkĭ Ciñ Oʼodham
🇺🇸 United StatesA federally recognized Oʼodham community in the Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona
About 1,000, Uto-Aztecan (Piman group)
Yankton SiouxDakota Ihanktonwan Oyate
🇺🇸 United StatesDakota people of southeastern South Dakota, protectors of the Pipestone Quarry
About 12,000, Siouan
Prairie Island Indian CommunityTinta Winta
🇺🇸 United StatesA Dakota Mdewakanton community along the Mississippi River in Minnesota
About 310, Siouan
Sandia PuebloTuf Shur Tia
🇺🇸 United StatesTiwa-speaking Pueblo community at the foot of the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico
About 427, Tanoan