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Click on a letter of the alphabet to go to US Tribes starting with another letter. Where known, the official name is used. Linked tribal names go to their profile index page which will contain more links to sections of our site where you can find articles about that tribe and related tribes.
A-B C-D E-F-G H-I-J K-L-M N-O-P Q-R-S T-U-V W-X-Y-Z
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
Inclusion on this site does NOT mean an endorsement has been made for recognition of any particular tribe. All entities claiming to be US indian tribes that we are aware of have been included for completeness.
Where known, we have indicated official tribal status with our Key Chart, based on information released by the BIA as of May 2016. In many cases we have not verified the validity of the claim of tribal status, and leave it to your own common sense or further research to validate tribal claims.
Alternate names in parenthesis are either older names that were once used to identify that tribe, or they are misspellings.
Links to US Tribes E to G tribal profile pages are at the bottom of the page.
Lower Elwha Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha Reservation (Washington State) (F)
Eenou (Eeyou)
Elko Colony – See Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada
Esselen (Ecclemachs,Etchemin, Etchimin, Eslen, Eslenes, Excelen, and Escelen) (U)
Etnemitane Euchee Eudeve (Eudebe, Endeve)
Fernandeño/Tativiam:
Fernandeño/Tataviam Tribe (California)
Flandreau Santee Sioux — Also See Sioux Indians
Fond du Lac Tribe – See Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes – See Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Fort Yuma-Quechan Tribe — See Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation
Flathead — See Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Fox — See Sac & Fox Nation, Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, and Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
French Cree
Gabrielino (Gabrieleño, Kizh, Kij,Playsanos, Tobikhars, Tumangamalum) (California) – See see Tongva
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation (Nevada and Utah) (F)
Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah(F)
Grand Ronde -See Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde (F)
Gros Ventre: (Split from Arapaho tribe) See Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana
Grand Portage Band – See Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (F)
Gaigwu (or Kaigwu) – See Kiowa
Galice – See Tolowa
Garifuna (U)- Descendants of West African, Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak people. The British colonial administration used the term Black Carib and Garifuna to distinguish them from Yellow and Red Carib, the Amerindian population that did not intermarry with Africans.
Today the Garifuna people live primarily in Central America, but there are scattered communities in major US cities such as Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, New Orleans, Houston, and Seattle.
Gashowu – Language of the Yokuts
Goltsan (Kolchan) – An Athabaskan language of the Na Dene language family. It is spoken in the Upper Kuskokwim River village of Nikolai, Alaska.
Guarijio (Guarihio, Guarijío) – A Uto-Aztecan language of the states of Chihuahua and Sonora in northwestern Mexico.
Gulf – See Caddo
The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians was considered to be part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa, but was not a party to the treaties that group signed. Since 1934, it has been one of the six bands making up the federally recognized Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, which wrote a constitution and initiated its new government in 1936.
The federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is the only federally recognized tribe in the state of North Carolina. The Eastern Cherokee are those Cherokee people who remained on their traditional homelands when most of the Cherokee were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma.
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma are descended from the mixed Seneca-Shawnee band which left Lewistown, Ohio and came to the Indian Territory in 1832. Recognized as a separate tribe in 1867, they organized as the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma during the 1930s.
The Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians is the only Southeastern Pomo indian tribe that is a federally recognized tribal government. The Southeastern Pomo Tribes of Lake County, California were a united sovereign fishing and gathering nation that consisted of four main villages. Today, there are roughly 20 Pomo rancherias in northern California.
Elk Valley Rancheria is a federal reservation of Tolowa Indians in Del Norte County, near Crescent City, on the Pacific Coast just south of the Oregon border. Some Yurok people are also enrolled in this ranceria. The Tolowa also live on the Smith River Rancheria.
The Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians is a federally recognized Kumeyaay Indian tribe in California formerly known as the “Cuyapaipe Band of Mission Indians” or the “Cuyapaipe Community of Diegeuno Mission Indians of the Cuyapaipe Reservation.”
The Bureau of Indian Affairs bought a 15-acre tract near Graton to be the “village home” of the Marshall, Bodega, Tomales and Sebastopol Indians in 1920. The government consolidated these neighboring groups into the Graton Rancheria thus establishing them as federally recognized tribes of American Indians, known today as the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. They are Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples.
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is a federally recognized tribe of Santee Dakota people. Their reservation is the Flandreau Indian Reservation. The tribe are members of the Mdewakantonwan people, one of the sub-tribes of the Isanti (Santee) Dakota originally from central Minnesota.
The Forest County Potawatomi Community belongs to an alliance known as the “Council of Three Fires” that was started long ago among three brothers who shared similar lands and backgrounds. Their decendants are of the Anishinabe (Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Ojibway) tribes and once lived mostly in the eastern part of North America.
This federally recognized tribe is made up of members from two tribes: the Assiniboine and the Gros Ventre.
The Fort Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort Bidwell Reservation of California is a federally recognized tribe of Northern Paiute Indians. The Paiute members are descended from the Northern Paiute Kidütökadö Band (Gidu Ticutta – “Yellow-bellied marmot-Eaters,” also called “Northern California Paiute”).
The Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Paiute and Shoshone people in Inyo County, California.