Indigenous Tribes of the United States

United States American Indian Research  Tribes of the United States

American Indians have long been identified by "tribal" names. In the United States, there are hundreds of names by which these tribes are known. See also Searching for an American Indian When the Tribe is Unknown.

Federally-Recognized Tribes
There are over 330 tribal entities in the "lower 48" states, recognized by the United States government. Some of those so recognized are actually portions of a larger tribe, as in the various bands of the Chippewa Tribe, for example. The most recent list of federally-recognized Indian entities was published in the Federal Register on August 11, 2009. There are also an additional 230 American Indian entities recognized by the federal government in Alaska, also included in the Federal Register list.

Records Kept by Tribes at Tribal Headquarters
Tribal headquarters maintain official records for the use in official tribal interactions with tribal members. These records may include: Enrollment, Employee, Court, Vital records, Police, Leases, Business minutes and records unique to the tribe.

Generally only enrolled tribal members may gain assisted access to these records. The types of records available may vary from tribe to tribe.

Ancestral records and records over 100 years old may be at the Agency or the National Archives.

Some Major Tribes in the United States


The following are some of the  major  Indian tribes in the United States. Links to pages for these tribes are provided here.Those pages provide additional information regarding the divisions, bands, groups, etc. of these major tribes,with some brief history and links to web sites, official and otherwise, and to other pages on FamilySearch Wiki. If the official name of a tribe is known, just search for that name using the search box for this site or search for it under the state where the tribe or band is located. For example, look for the various bands of the Pomo Indians under "Indians of California."

This list is intended to be a "quick list" to the major tribes of the U.S. There are many other tribes not included in this list.

A
Absentee-Shawneesee

Shawnee Adai

Ak Chin

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

Ak Chin Indian Community of Papago Indians

Alabama-Coushatta

Alabama-Quassarte

Alturas Indian Rancheria of Pit River Indians

Anadarko

Apache

Apalachee

Apalachicola

Arickaree see: Arikara

Arapaho

Assiniboin

Assiniboine and Sioux

Augustine Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians

B
Bad River Band of the Lake Supperior Tribe of Chippewa

Bannock

Barona Band of Mission Indians

Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians

Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians Big Bend Rancheria of Pit River Indians

Big Bend Indian Rancheria Big Lagoon Rancheria of Smith River

Big Pine Band of Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana

Biloxi

Tunica Blackfeet Indians

Blackfeet

Blackfeet Sioux

Blood

Boise Shoshoni

Bridgeport Indian Colony

Brotherton

Burns Paiute

Brule'Sioux. see also Lower Brule' Bruneau Shoshoni

C
Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Mission Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians Caddo Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians Cahto Indian Tribe Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians Capitan Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians Capote Ute Cahto Cahuilla Catawba Cayuga Cayuse Chastacosta Chehalis Chemehuevi Cherokee Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community

Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community

Chetco Cheyenne

Cheyenne River Sioux Cheyenne-Arapaho Chickasaw Chippewa Chippewa-Cree Chiricahua Apache Chitimacha Choctaw Chumash Citizen Potawatomi Clackamas Clallam Coast Indian Community of Yurok Indians Cocopah Coeur d'Alene Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians Colorado River Tribes Colville Comanche Concow Colorado River Indian Tribes

Confederated Peoria and Miami Confederated Salish &amp; Kootenai Tribes Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation Coquille Coushatta Cowlitz Cocopah Tribe of Arizona Cortina Indian Rancheria Covelo Indian Community Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians Coyotero Apache Cree Creek Crow Crow Creek Sioux Cuthead Sioux Cuyapaipe Band of Diegueno Mission Indians

D
Delaware Diegueno Digger Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo Indians Duckwater Shoshone Tribe

Duckwater Shoshone

Duwamish

E
Eastern Band of Cherokee Eastern Shawnee

Eastern Shoshone

Eel River

Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians

Ely Shoshone

Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians

F
Flandreau Santee Sioux Flathead Fresno Fort Belknap Community Fort Bidwell Community Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Fort Mojave Fort Yuma-Quechan Fox see:Sac (Sauk)and Fox Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona

G
Grand River Ute

Gila River Community Goshute

Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Grosventre

Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians California

H
Hainai Havasupai Hidatsa Ho-Chunk Hoh Hoopa Valley Hopi Hualapai Hunkpapa Sioux Hupa

I
Inaja and Cosmit Reservation of Diegueno Indians Ioni see Hainai Iowa of Kansas and Nebraska Iowa of Oklahoma Iroquois

J
Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians Jamestown S'Klallam Jicarilla Apache Joshua

K
Kaibab-Paiute

Kainah see Blood

Kalapuya Kalispel Indians

Kalispel Kansa Karuk Kashia Band of Pomo Indians Kaskaskia Kaw Kawia Keechi Kern River Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians Kaibab-Paiute Kianamaras Kichai Kickapoo

Kickapoo Traditional Tribe Kiowa Kiowa Apache Indians

Kiowa Apache Klamath

Klikitat

Koasati

Konkau Kutenai

Kwatami

L
Lake Winnebigoshish Chippewa

Lake Superior Chippewa

Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute

Lipan

Little Lake Valley

Little Shell Band of Chippewa

Little Traaverse Bay Bands of Odawa

Lookout Rancheria of Pit River Indians

Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians

Lower Brule' see Brule' Sioux

Lower Elwha Community

Lovelock Paiute Luiseno Lummi

M
Maidu Makah Maliseet Mandan Manchester Band of Pomo Indians Maricopa Mashantucket Pequot Mattole Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians Mdewakanton Sioux see also Sioux and Santee Sioux Mechoopda Melungeons Menominee

Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians

Mescalero Apache

Mexican Kickapoo see Kickapoo Miami Miccosukee Micmac

Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians

Mimbreno Apache

Miniconjou Sioux

Minnesota Chippewa

Mission

Barona Band of Mission Indians

Missouri Miwok Indians

Miwok

Moache Ute Modoc

Mogollon Apache Mohawk Mohegan

Molala Mono Moqui Pueblo Muckleshoot Munsee Muscogee (Creek)

N
Natchitoches Natchez Narragansett Navajo New York Indians Nez Perce Nisqualli Noi-sas Nomelaki Nooksack Northern Cheyenne

Northern Shoshone

Nuimok

O
Oglala Sioux

Okanagan Omaha Oneida in New York Oneida in Wisconsin Onondaga Oohenonpa see Two Kettle Sioux Osage Oto Otoe-Missouria Ottawa Otter Tail Chippewa Pillager Ozette

P
Pahvant

Papago Tribe,

Pascua Yaqui Tribe,

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

Papaska Sioux see: Cuthead Sioux Pahvant Paiute

Paloos Papago

Pascagoula Pascua Yaqui Passamaquoddy Pawnee Pembina Chippewa

Pembina Band of Chippewa

Penateka Comanche see: Comanche Pend d'Oreille Penobscot Peoria

Piankeshaw Piegan Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians

Pillager Chippewa Pima Pit River Piute see Paiute

Poarch Band of Creek Pomo Ponca Port Gamble Community Potawatomi Potter Pueblo

Pueblo of Acoma Pueblo of Cochiti Pueblo of Jemea Pueblo of Laguna Pueblo of Nambe Pueblo of Picuris Pueblo of Pojoaque Pueblo of San Felipe Pueblo of San Juan Pueblo of San Ildefonso Pueblo of Sandia Pueblo of Santa Ana Pueblo of Santa Clara Pueblo of Santo Domingo Pueblo of Taos Pueblo of Tesuque Pueblo of Zia  Pueblo of Zuni Puyallup

Pyramid Lake Paiute

Q
Quaitso Quapaw Quechan Quileute Quinault

R
Red Lake Chippewa

Redwood Rogue River

Round Valley Tribes

Rosebud Sioux

S
Sac and Fox

Sauk and Fox

Saia

St. Regis

Saginaw Chippewa

Salan

Pomo

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

Sans Arc Sioux

San Carlos Apache Tribe

Santee Sioux, Nebraska

Santee Sioux (Sioux of the Mississippi)

Samish Sanpoil

Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission

Sault Ste. Marie Indian Tribe of Florida Sauk-Suiattle Seminole

Seminole Indian tribe of Florida Seneca Seneca-Cayuga Serrano

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux

Shasta Shawnee Sheepeater Shoalwater Bay Shoshone

Shoshoni Siksika see: Blackfeet

Shoshone-Paiute Siletz Sioux

Sisseton Sioux

Santee Sioux Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe

Sisseton Wahpeton

Sioux Sixes Sklallam Skokomish Snohomish Snoqualmie Southern Ute Spirit Lake Spokane Squaxin Island

Squaxin

Standing Rock Sioux Stillaguamish Stockbridge Munsee Suquamish Swinomish

Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission

T
Tabaquache Ute

Taensa

Tawakonie

Tejon

Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone

Tenino Thlopthlocco Tribal Town Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation Tohono O’odham Tonawanda Tonkawa Tonto Apache Tribe

Tonto Apache Tribe

Tonto Apache Tribe Tubatulabal

Tukuarika Tulalip

Tule (Tularenos) Tule River Tunica-Biloxi Tuscarora

Two Kettle Sioux

U
Uinta Ute Ukiah Umatilla Umpqua Uncompaghre Ute see Tabaquache Ute United Band of Ottawa Chippewa and Potawatomi Upper Skagit Ute Ute Mountain

W
Waco Indians

Wahkepute Sioux Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe

Wahpeton Sioux (Sisseton)

Wailaki

Walapai

Walker River Paiute Walla Walla Wampanoag

Wappo

Warm Springs Wasco Washoe

Wea Weiser

Western Shoshone

Whilkut White Mountain Apache Tribe

White

Mountain Apache Tribe

White Oak Point Chippewa Wichita

Wikchamni

Wiminuche Ute Winnebago Wintun Wiyot Wyandot

Y
Yakama

Yamel

Yampa Ute

Yankton Sioux Yankton Sioux Tribe

Yankton Sioux

Yatasi Yavapai-Apache Nation, Arizona

Yavapai Apache

Yavapai-Apache Indian Community Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe

Yavapai Prescott

Yerington Paiute

Yijaua

Yomba Shoshone Yokuts Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo

Yuki

Yuchi

Yuma

Yupa Yurok

Z
Zuni