Tribes by Confederacy

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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

Wabanaki Confederacy

Wappinger Confederacy – Sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch

Wyandot Confederacy

Relationship of american indian tribes to tribes mentioned in the Bible

Aboriginal groups in Australia, native Pacific Islanders, American Indians and Eskimos were birthed from descendants of Canaan, Cush, Mizraim, and Phut.

Evidence for diverse migrations into the Americas comes from research on living American Indian populations, which includes data from Mitochondrial DNA. These studies have consistently shown similarities between American Indians and recent populations in Asia, Siberia and northern Scandinavia.

These groups include the Lapps in northern Europe/Scandinavia, the Yukaghir in Siberia, plus Indians and Eskimos/Aleuts throughout Canada and America. Ancient skeletal remains show a range of physical attributes (round-headed) suggesting separate migrations of different populations from Asia and the South Pacific, representing 95 percent of all modern American Indian populations. What of the other 5 percent?

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Western Confederacy

The Western Confederacy, which had its roots in pan-tribal movements dating to the 1740s, was a loose confederacy of North American Natives in the Great Lakes region following the American Revolutionary War. These native american tribes came together to resist the expansion of the United States into the Northwest Territory after Great Britain ceded the region to the United States after the war.Aso known as the Western Indian Confederacy, many of these native peoples had fought in the war as…

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