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

Council of Three Fires Confederacy

The Council of Three Fires, also known as the People of the Three Fires, the Three Fires Confederacy, the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians, or Niswi-mishkodewin in the Anishinaabe language, is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Ottawa (or Odawa), and Potawatomi Native American tribes and First Nations.In this Council, the Ojibwe were addressed as the “Older Brother,” the Odawa as the “Middle Brother,” and the Potawatomi as the “Younger Brother.” Consequently, whenever the…

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California Mission Indians

California Mission Indians is a designation for the Indians of Southern California forced by the Spanish into the mission system in the coastal areas of the southern two-thirds of the state. All of the Indians who traditionally lived in the San Diego area when the Spanish arrived in 1769 are called Mission Indians. For thousands of years, the southern and central Pacific coast region was one of the most densely populated areas north of Mexico. Population estimates range as high as…

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Yocuts Tribes

During the years after the Gold Rush (1849) anthropologists visited the Central Valley of California. They grouped California Tribes together by their languages; with approximately 60 Tribes in the greater Central Valley grouped under this designation. These groups had (and still do have) similar cultures, and speak the same language, but had different dialects.

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