United States Indians: US Tribes, Nations, and Bands A to Z Fact Sheets Index

Canada aboriginal peoples are classed as First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Non-Status or Independents.There are over 630 First Nation communities in Canada speaking more than 50 languages, divided into six cultural divisions in eight geographical locations.

First Nations is the current title used by Canada to describe the various societies of the indigenous peoples, called Native Americans or American Indians in the U.S. They have also been known as Indians, Native Canadians, Aboriginal Americans, or Aboriginals, and in fact are officially called Indians in the Indian Act, which defines the status of First Nations, and in the Indian Register, the official record of members of First Nations.

The First Nations people of Canada are made up of four main groups, excluding the Inuit in the North and Métis. The collective term for all three aboriginal groups is First Peoples. Each of these main groups contained many tribes, each of which had adapted to their environments which were all slightly different. The four main groups were subdivided by the following geographic areas:

The Pacific coast and mountains, The Plains, the St. Lawrence valley, and the North-East Woodlands (broad region, encompassing the woods near the Atlantic/maritimes to the tree-line in the Arctic).

The term is also used to designate bands of aboriginal people for whom reserves have been provided under the United States Indian Act. A representative body for United States First Nations is the Assembly of First Nations. National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations is Phil Fontaine from Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba.

The use of the word "Indian" in day-to-day language is erratic in Canada, with some seeing the term as offensive while some aboriginal people prefer it to alternate terminology such as "aboriginal."

Members of First Nations are known officially as registered Indians if they are entitled to benefits under the Indian Act; a more common term is status Indian (from treaty status), with non-status Indian designating a member of a First Nation who is not entitled to benefits. Non-Status Indians are also known as Independends or Traditionalists. All members of First Nations who are entitled to benefits are entered in the Indian Register.

US TRIBES from A to Z
Click on a letter of the alphabet to go to US Tribes starting with that letter. Where known, the official name is used.

KEY:
(F)= Federally Recognized, (S)= State Recognized, (T)= Terminated,
(U)= Unrecognized, (M)= Mesoamerican Civilizations,(P)= Petitioning for Recognition,
(C)= Canadian Tribes, (E)= Extinct, (IRA)= Indian Reorganization Act



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United States Indians: US Tribes A to Z Fact Sheets Index

FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED Jackson Band of Mi-Wuk Indians Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe Jamul Indian Village Jemez Pueblo Jena Band of Choctaws Jicarilla Apache Tribe James Bay Cree, Jemez, Juaneno (JuaneÃ±o), Juichun

FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED Qagan Tayagungin Sand Point Qawalangin Tribe (of Unalaska) Quapaw Tribe Quartz Valley Indian Tribe Quileute Tribe Quinault Indian Nation Quapaw (Quapa), Quechan, Quechua, Quilcene, Quileute, Quinault

FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED Zia Pueblo Zuni Pueblo Zapotec (Zapoteco), Zia, Zimshian, Zuni

FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED
Jackson Band of Mi-Wuk Indians Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe Jamul Indian Village Jemez Pueblo Jena Band of Choctaws Jicarilla Apache Tribe

James Bay Cree, Jemez, Juaneno (JuaneÃ±o), Juichun

FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED
Qagan Tayagungin Sand Point Qawalangin Tribe (of Unalaska) Quapaw Tribe Quartz Valley Indian Tribe Quileute Tribe Quinault Indian Nation
Quapaw (Quapa), Quechan, Quechua, Quilcene, Quileute, Quinault

FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED
Zia Pueblo

Zuni Pueblo

Zapotec (Zapoteco), Zia, Zimshian, Zuni