The Seneca Confederacy
The Seneca Confederacy included the Erie, Conestoga, Cayuga, Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga, Tuscarora, and Wyandot. The Stockbridge were also known as the Housatonic and were united with the Oneida.
Tribes by Confederacy
There are well over 1,000 native American indian tribes in the United States and Canada.
Learn how these tribes are related to each other, which tribes joined together for political alliances, warfare, and peace keeping venues, or have historical roots together.
Confederacies:
Caddoan Confederacy
Franco-Indian Alliance – Was an alliance between American Indians and the French, centered on the Great Lakes and the Illinois country during the French and Indian War(1754–1763).
Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Iroquois League – See Iroquois Confederacy
One of the most well-known alliances was the Iroquois Confederacy, also called the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations, which united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and later, the Tuscarora. Their Great Law of Peace influenced democratic ideals and remains a foundational example of Indigenous governance. The Powhatan Confederacy in the eastern woodlands and the Muscogee (Creek) Confederacy in the Southeast also exemplify the power of tribal unity and structured leadership.
Hasinai confederacy (Caddo)
Huron Confederacy
Illini Confederacy – See Illinois Confederacy
Miami Confederacy – See Western Confederacy
Monacan Confederacy
Meiponsky
Mahoc
Nuntaly
Mohetan
Tutelo Confederacy
Saponi
Occanichi
Wappinger Confederacy – Sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch
Wyandot Confederacy
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Wabanaki Confederacy: Abenaki, Míkmaq,Maliseet, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy
The Wabanaki Confederacy (Waponahkiyik) was between five Algonquian tribes: the Abenaki, Míkmaq (Mi’kmaq or Micmac), Penobscot (Penawapskewi), Passamaquoddy (Pestomuhkati), and Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik or Malicite) tribes.Continue to Wabanaki Confederacy: Abenaki, Míkmaq,Maliseet, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy →
Salish Tribes
The coast Salish form the southern arm of the north west Coast culture, which fades away southward from Bute inlet and Comox (where it resembles that of the more highly developed Kwakiutl) to the semi-Californian Tillamook and the Nestucca of Oregon.
The Salish tribes are divided into two geographic areas: the Coast Salish and the Interior Salish. The Interior Salish can be further divided into the Northern and Southern branches.
Tribes of the Great Sioux Nation
Sioux indians, tribes, nations and reservations The Great Sioux Nation is actually made up of 18 separate tribes, or bands in the US, and 12 in Canada. These are divided into three divisions: the Lakota Sioux, Dakota Sioux, and the Nakota Sioux. Each division speaks a different, but similar, Sioux language dialect. Speakers of one division can usually understand the other dialects, with small differences in pronunciation. There are also numerous subdivisions of the Sioux tribe, some included in…
Copper Inuit Subgroups
The Copper Inuit lived within geographically defined subgroups or villages.
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Each of these tribes has a unique individual history, culture and legal relationship with the federal government, which was brought to be incorporated into the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. These unique relationships were formed through treaties, laws, agreements and executive orders. Before this legal/political intervention, each was a separate tribe with, in many instances, many sub-tribes and individual villiages under each tribal designation.