Artifact Replicas Jewelry Clothing Figurines Art Prints On Sale New Products Indian Tribes by Region Ethnographers commonly classify the native peoples of the United States and Canada into ten geographical regions with shared cultural traits. The following list groups native american indians by their region of origin, followed by the current reservation locations.
Tribes by Region
Arctic Subarctic
Ahtna (Ahtena, Nabesna)
Atikamekw
Babine
Bearlake
Carrier
Chipewyan
Chilcotin
Cree
Degexit'an (Ingalik)
Dogrib
Han
Hare
Holikachuk
Innu
Kaska (Nahane)
Kolchan (Upper Kuskowim)
Koyukon
Kutchin
Mountain
Naskapi
Nishka
Ojibwa
Sekani
Slavey (Dialects: Hay River, Simpson Providence, Liard, Fort Nelson)
Tagish
Tahltan
Lower Tanana
Middle Tanana
Upper Tanana
Tanacross
Tanaina (Dialects: Outer Inlet, Upper Inlet, Iliama, Inland, Kachemak Bay, Kenai, Susitna River)
Tasttine (Beaver)
Inland Tlingit
Tsetsaut
Tsimishian
Northern Tutchone
Southern Tutchone
Wet'suweten
Yellowknife California Achomawi (Pit River Indians)
Antoniaño
Atsugewi
Bear River
Cahuilla
Campo
Chemehuevi
Chukchansi
Chumash (Dialects: Roseño, Purisimeño, Barbareño, Inezeño, Ventureño, Obispeño, Santa Paula, Cruzeño, Emigdiano Allilik)
Chilula
Chimariko
Costanoan (Dialects: Ramaytush, San Jose, Juichen, Chocheño, Tamyen, Awaswas, Chalon, Mutsun, Rumsen)
Cupeño
Diegueño
Esselen
Fernandeño: see Tataviam
Gabrieliño: see Tongva
Giamina
Huchnom
Hupa
Ipai
Jamul
Juaneño
Kamia
Karok
Kato
Kiliwa
Kitanemuk
Klamath
Konomihu
Konkow
Kumeyaay (Diegueño)
Lassik
Luiseño
Maidu
Mattole
Mesa Grande
Migueleño
Mission Indians Miwok (Me-wuk)
Modoc
Mohave
Monache
Nakipa
Nisenan
Nomlaki
Nongatl
Ohlone
Paipai (Akwa'ala)
Paiute
Patwin
Pomo
Quechan
Rumsen
Salinan
San Clemente
San Nicolas
Santa Catalina
Serrano
Shasta tribe
Sinkyone
Tache
Tachi tribe
Tataviam (Fernandeño)
Tipai
Tolowa
Tongva (Gabrieliño)
Tsnungwe
Tubatulabal
Wailaki
Wappo
Washoe
Whilkut
Wintu
Wintun
Wiyot
Yahi
Yana
Yocha Dehe
Yokuts
Yuki
Coast Yuki
Yurok Eastern Woodlands Accohannock Maryland
Algonquian lower Saint Lawrence River
Algonquins Outaouais and Abitibi in Quebec
Beothuk formerly Newfoundland, no longer exist
Caniba
Conoy
Erie
Etchemin Quebec (Maliseet)
Fox
Ho-Chunk
Huron/Wyandot Ontario south of Georgian Bay, now Oklahoma and Wendake, Quebec
Illinois (Illini) Illinois
Iroquois New York Cayuga Mohawk Kahnawake, Quebec Oneida Onondaga Seneca Tuscarora Kickapoo Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas
Laurentian
Lenni-Lenape Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, now Oklahoma
Loup A
Loup B
Maliseet Maine, Quebec, and New Brunswick, Canada
Mascouten
Massachusett Massachusetts
Menominee
Miami Indiana, now Oklahoma
Mingo Pennsylvania, Ohio
Mahican
Mohegan
Montauk New York
Munsee
Nanticoke
Narragansett Rhode Island
Natick
Neutral
Nipissing
Nipmuc Massachusetts
Ojibwe (Chippewa, Anishaabe) Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana)
Oji-Cree
Ottawa
Paugusset Connecticut
Passamaquoddy Maine
Penobscot Maine
Peoria Illinois, now Oklahoma
Pequot
Petun
Pocumtuk
Poospatuck New York
Potawatomi (Michigan) Powhatan Virginia
Quiripi
Ramapough Mountain Indians New Jersey
Hopewell Ohio and Black River region
Sauk
Saulteaux
Secotan
Shawnee Ohio, Pennsylvania [most ended up in Oklahoma] Shinnecock New York
Souriquoian
Susquahannock
Tarrantine Tarranteen
Abenaki
Micmac
Unalachtigo
Unami
Unquachog
Wampanoag Massachusetts
Wappinger
Wawenoc
Wea
Wenro
Wyandot/Huron Ontario south of Georgian Bay, now Oklahoma and Wendake, Quebec Great Basin Bannock
Chemehuevi
Gosiute Utah
Kawaiisu
Koso
Mono
Owen's Valley (Native Amricans)
Northern Paiute California, Nevada, Oregon [Burns-Paiute], Arizona
Southern Paiute (Kaibab)
Panamint
Paviotso
Shoshone (Shoshoni) Nevada, Wyoming, California
Wind River Shoshone
Timbisha
Ute Utah, Colorado
Washo Nevada, California Plateau Cayuse Oregon
Celilo (Wayampam)
Upper Chinookan (Dialects: Clackamas, Cascades, Hood River Wasco, Wishram Kathlamet, Wishram, Cathlamet, Multnomah,
Columbian (Dialects: Wenatchee, Sinkayuse, Chelan ) Washington, Oregon
Coeur d'Alene Idaho
Colville Washington
Upper Cowlitz
Flatbow
Flathead
Fountain
John Day
Kalispel Washington
Kittitas
Klamath
Klikitat Washington
Kootenai Idaho
Lakes
Lillooet
Lower Snake (Chamnapam, Wauyukma, Naxiyampam)
Modoc
Molala (Molale) Oregon
Nez Perce Idaho
Nicola
Okanagan (Dialects: Northern and Southern)
Palus (Palouse)
Pend'Oreilles
Rock Creek
Sahaptin
Sanpoil
Shuswap
Spokane Washington
Tenino
Thompson
Tygh
Tygh Valley
Umatilla Oregon
Upper Nisqually (Mishalpan)
Walla Walla Oregon
Wanapum
Wasco Oregon
Yakima Washington Northwest Coast Alsea
Applegate
Bella Bella
Bella Coola
Calapooia (see Kalapuya)
Calapuya (see Kalapuya)
Chasta Costa
Chehalis (Upper and Lower) Washington
Chemakum Washington
Chetco
Chilliwak
Chinook Dialects: (Lower Chinook, Upper Chinook, Clackamas, Wasco)
Chinook Jargon
Clatsop
Clatskanie (Tlatskanie)
Comox
Coos {Hanis} Oregon
Lower Coquille (Miluk) Oregon
Upper Coquille
Cowichan
Lower Cowlitz Washington
Duwamish Washington
Eyak Alaska
Galice
Haida (Dialects: Kaigani, Skidegate, Masset) Alaska
Haihai
Haisla
Halkomelem
Heiltsuk
Hoh Washington
North Kalapuya (Dialects: Yamhill or Yamel, Tualatin or Tfalati or Atfalati)
Central Kalapuya (Dialects: Santiam, Mary's River, Lakmiut, Ahantchuyuk, Lower McKenzie or Mohawk )
South Kalapuya (Yonkalla or Yoncalla)
Kimsquit
Kitimat
Klallam (Clallam, Dialects: Klallam (Lower Elwha), S'Klallam (Jamestown), S'Klallam (Port Gamble))
Klemtu
Klickitat
Koskimo
Kwalhioqua
Kwakiutl (Kwakwala or Kwakwa'kwa'kw)
Kwalhioqua
Kwantlem
Kwatami
Lummi Washington
Lushootseed
Makah Washington
Muckleshoot Washington
Musqueam
Nanaimo
Niskwalli
Nooksack Washington
Nisqually Washington
Pentlatch
Puyallup Washington
Quileute Washington
Quinault Washington
Rogue River or Upper Illinois Oregon, California
Saanich
Samish
Sauk-Suiattle Washington
Sechelt
Shoalwater Bay Tribe Washington
Siletz Oregon
Siuslaw Oregon
Skagit
Skokomish Washington
Sliammon
Snohomish
Stó:lo
Songish
Sooke
Squaxin Island Tribe Washington
Spokane Washington
Stillaguamish Washington
Squamish Washington
Swinomish Washington
Tait
Takelma Oregon
Talio
Tillamook (Nehalem) Oregon
Tlatlasikoala
Tlingit Alaska
Tolowa-Tututni
Tsimshian (Dialects: Hartley Bay, Prince Rupert, Gitando, Kitkatla)
Tulalip Washington
Twana
Lower Umpqua Oregon
Upper Umpqua Oregon
Upper Skagit Washington
Oowekyala
Yaquina Plains Aranama
Arapaho Wyoming, Oklahoma
Arikara (aka Arikaree or Ree) North Dakota
Assiniboine Montana Fort Peck Indian Reservation is home to Assiniboine and Lakota (Sioux)
Atsina
Besawunena
Blackfoot Montana/Alberta (bands: Kainah or Blood, Siksiki, Northern Peigan, Piegan or Blackfeet)
Brule
Caddo
Cheyenne Montana, South Dakota; Oklahoma
Chickasaw Oklahoma
Comanche Oklahoma
Crow (Absaroka or Apsáalooke) Montana, South Dakota
Chippewa Cree, Montana
Plains Cree Montana
Dakota
Gros Ventre
Hasinai
Hidatsa North Dakota
Iowa (Ioway) Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma
Karankawa Texas
Kaw (Kansa) Oklahoma
Kiowa Oklahoma
Kitsai
Lakota (Sioux) South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska
Lipan Apache Mandan North Dakota
Missouri tribe (Missouria) Missouri
Nawathinehena
Oglala Sioux
Plains Ojibwe
Omaha Nebraska
Mississaugas
Osage Nation Oklahoma
Otoe ( also spelled Oto) Oklahoma
Ottawa Michigan; Oklahoma
Pawnee (Dialects: South Band, Skiri) Oklahoma
Piegan
Plains Apache (Kiowa-Apache)Oklahoma Ponca Nebraska, Oklahoma
Quapaw (Arkansas) Arkansas, Oklahoma
Santee Sioux
Sauk (originally Great Lakes now Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa)
Siksika
Sioux (Lakota, Dakota, Nakota) Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
Stoney
Tamique
Teton Sioux
Tonkawa Oklahoma
Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee, Sarsi, Tsuut’ina)
Wichita Oklahoma [Affiliated Tribes - Wichita, Waco, Tawakoni, Keechi]
Wyandot Ontario, Michigan
Yankton Sioux
Yanktonai Sioux Southeast Adai
Ais Florida
Akokisa
Alabama Alabama
Apalachee Florida
Atakapa
Bidai
Biloxi Mississippi
Caddo Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
Calusa Florida
Catawba South Carolina
Chatot
Chawasha
Cherokee North Carolina; later Oklahoma Chiaha
Chickahominy Virginia
Chickamauga
Chickasaw Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, later Oklahoma
Chitimacha Louisiana
Choctaw Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama; later Oklahoma
Creek Alabama; Oklahoma, Georgia Coahuiltecan Texas
Coushatta Louisiana
Coharie North Carolina
Cusabo
Hitchiti
Houma Louisiana
Iswa
Jeaga Florida
Koasati
Lumbee North Carolina
Mattaponi Virginia
Meherrin North Carolina
Mikasuki Florida
Mobile
Mocama
Monacan Virginia
Nansemond Virginia
Natchez Mississippi, Louisiana
Nottoway
Ofo
Pamlico (Carolina)
Pamunkey Virginia
Pee Dee South Carolina, North Carolina
Pensacola
Rappahannock Virginia
Saponi
Seminole Florida; Oklahoma
Taensa
Tawasa
Tekesta Florida
Timucua (Utina) Florida
Topachula Florida
Tuscarora North Carolina, Virginia (later Niagra Falls, NY) Tuskegee
Tutelo
Tunica Mississippi
Waccamaw North Carolina, South Carolina
Woccon
Yamasee
Yuchi Southwest Acoma
Ak Chin Arizona
Apache Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma Chiricahua Apache Cochimi Baja California
Cochiti
Cocopa Arizona
Halchidhoma
Hano
Hualapai
Havasupai Arizona
Hohokam Arizona
Hopi Arizona
Isleta
Isleta del Sur
Jemez
Jicarilla Apache Jumano
Karankawa
Kavelchadhom
Keres
Laguna
Los Luceros
Maricopa
Mescalero Apache Mohave
Nambe
Navaho Arizona, New Mexico
Opata
Pecos
Pericu Baja California
Picuris
Pima Arizona
Pima Bajo
Piro
Pueblo people New Mexico
Qahatika
Quechan Arizona
Sandia (Nafiat was the name for the Bernalillo pueblo)
San Carlos
San Felipe
San Idelfonso
San Juan
Santa Ana
Santa Clara
Santo Domingo
Seri
Suma
Taos
Tesuque
Tewa
Tigua
Toboso
Tohono O'odham (Papago) Arizona
Northern Tonto
Southern Tonto
Waicuri (Guaicura) Baja California
Walapai
Western Apache White Mountain
Yavapai see Yavapai-Apache Nation , Yavapai-Prescott Tribe Arizona
Yuma (Quechan)
Zia
Zuni
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