List Of Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas

Peoples of North America: United States and Canada

Many anthropologists classify the peoples of North America in ten regions. In the following list, people are classified by region of origin.

Arctic Region

• Aleut
• Inuit
• Yupik

Sub-Arctic Region

Map of Indian tribes in the U.S.

• Ahtna (Ahtena) Nabesna
• Atikamekw
• Chops
• Bearlake
• Beaver
• Chipewyan
• Chilcotin
• Cree (French) or Cree (English)
• Dakelh (Carriers in French, English Carrier)
• Degexit'an ( Ingalik )
• Han (tribe)
• Hare
• Holikachuk
• Innu (Montagnais, Naskapi)
• Kaska ( Nahane )
• Kolchan ( Kuskowim higher )
• Koyukon
• Kutchin
• Mountain
• Nishka
• Ojibwa
• Sekani
• Slavey (Dialects: Hay River , Simpson Providence , Liard , Fort Nelson )
• Tagish
• Tahltan
• Lower Tanana
• Middle Tanana
• Upper Tanana
• Tanacross
• Tanaina (Dialects: Outer Inlet , Upper Inlet , Iliama , Inlet , Kachemak Bay , Kenai , Susitna River )
• Tlicho (Dogrib)
• Inlet Tlingit
• Tsetsaut
• Tsimshian
• Northern Tutchone
• Southern Tutchone
• Wet'suweten
• Yellowknife

California

Woodlands

• Abenaki
• Accohannock Marylet
• Algonquin
• Susquehannock
• Beotuks or Newfoundlet
• Caniba
• Conoy
• Ho-Chunk
• Huron / Wendat Ontario south Georgian Bay , now Oklahoma and Wendake Quebec
• Illinois ( Illini ) gave their name to the State occupying their territory, the Illinois
• Iroquois New York
  • Cayuga
  • Mohawk Kahnawake, Quebec
  • Oneida
  • Onondaga
  • Seneca
  • Tuscarora
• Kickapoo Illinois , Missouri , Kansas , Oklahoma , Texas
• Laurentian
• Lenni Lenape, Pennsylvania , Delaware , New Jersey , now Oklahoma (following the deportation of the Indian Removal Act )
• A wolf
• Loup B
• Maliseet (Etchemin)
• Mascouten
• Massachusetts Massachusetts
• Menominee
• Mi'kmaq Maine , Quebec and Atlantic Canada
• Miami now in Oklahoma Indiana
• Mingo Pennsylvania, Ohio
• Mohicans
  • Mahican
  • Mohegan
  • Pequod
• Montauk New York
• Munsee
• Nanticoke
• Narragansett Rhode Island
• Natick
• Cat Nation
• Neutral
• Nipissing
• Nipmuc Massachusetts
• Ojibwe (Chippewa, Anishaabe) Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana)
• Oji-Cree
• Ottawa
• Paugusset Connecticut
• Passamaquoddy Maine
• Penobscot Maine
• Peoria , Illinois, deported to Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act
• Petun
• Pocumtuk
• Poospatuck New York
• Potawatomi Michigan
• Powhatan Virginia
• Quiripi
• Ramapough Mountain Indians New Jersey
• Foxes
• Hopewell Ohio and the region of the Black River
• Sauk
• Saulteaux
• Secotan
• Shawnee Ohio , Pennsylvania (most were deported to Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act )
• Shinnecock New York
• Souriquoian
• Unalachtigo
• unami
• Unquachog
• Wampanoag Massachusetts
• Wappinger
• Wawenoc
• Wea
• Wenro
• Wyetot / Huron Ontario south of Georgian Bay originally deported by the Indian Removal Act in Oklahoma , and Wendake , Quebec

Grand Basin

• Bannock
• Chemehuevi
• Gosiutes , Utah
• Kawaiisu
• Koso
• Mandas (completely exterminated, lived in North Dakota
• Mono
• Owen's Valley
• Northern Paiute California, Nevada, Oregon Plates

  Cayuse in Oregon Celilo ( Wayampam ) Chinookans higher dialects: Clackamas , Cascades , Hood River , Wasco , Wishram , Kathlamet , Wishram , Cathlamet , Multnomah. Columbian dialects: Wenatchee , Sinkayuse , Chelan ) Heart d'Alene Idaho Colville , Washington

  Cowlitz higher Flatbow Flatheads Fountain John Day Kalispel , Washington Kittitas Klamath Klikitat , Washington Kootenay (or Kutenai), Idaho Lakes Lillooet Lower Snake Chamnapam , Wauyukma , Naxiyampam Modoc Molale ( Molale ) Oregon

  Nez Perce in the State of Idaho Nicola Okanagan (Dialects of southern and north) Palus (Palouse) Pend'Oreilles Rock Creek Sahaptin Sanpoil Shuswap Spokane , Washington Tenino Thompson Tygh Tygh Valley Umatilla , Oregon Nisqually higher ( Mishalpan ) Walla Walla Oregon Wanapum Wascos Oregon Yakima in the State of Washington

  Coastal areas of north-west

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  Central Kalapuya Dialects Santiam , Mary's River , Lakmiut , Ahantchuyuk , Lower McKenzie or Mohawk. South Kalapuya ( Yonkalla or Yoncalla ) Kimsquit Kitimat Klallam or Clallam Dialects Klallam (Lower Elwha) , S'Klallam (Jamestown) , S'Klallam (Port Gamble) ) a href = "Klemtu" class = "new" title = "Klemtu (non-existent page)"> Klemtu Klickitat Koskimo Kwalhioqua Kwakiutl ( Kwakwala or Kwakwa'kwa'kw ) Kwalhioqua Kwantlem Kwatami Upper Illinois or ( Rogue River ) Oregon, California Lummi Washington Lushootseed Makah Washington Muckleshoot Washington Musqueam Nanaimo Niskwalli Nooksack Washington Nisqually Washington Pentlatch Puyallup Washington Quileute Washington Quinault Washington Rivers Inlet Saanich Samish Sauk-Suiattle Washington Sechelt

  Shoalwater Bay, Washington Siletz Oregon Siuslaw Oregon Skagit Skokomish Washington Sliammon Snohomish Songish Sooke Tribe Squaxin Islet Washington Spokane Washington Stillaguamish Washington Squamish Washington Swinomish Washington Tait Takelma Oregon Talio Tillamook (Nehalem) Oregon Tlatlasikoala Tlingit Alaska ToLower-Tututni Tsimshian Dialects Hartley Bay , Prince Rupert , Giteto , Kitkatla ) Tulalip Washington Twana Lower Umpqua Oregon Upper Umpqua Oregon Upper Skagit Washington Wikeno Yaquina

  The Great Plains

  Main article: Plains Indians.
  • Aranama
  • Arapaho (Arapahoe, Cow People)
  • Atsina (Gros Ventre of the Prairie)
  • Besawunena
  • Caddo
  • Cheyenne
  • Chickasaw
  • Comanche
  • Hasina
  • Karankawa
  • Kaw (Kanza)
  • Kiowa
  • Kiowa Apache Oklahoma
  • Kits
  • Lipan
  • Metan North Dakota
  • Mississauga
  • Nawathinehena
  • Nehiyaw (Plains Cree)
  • Plains Ojibwe
  • Ottawa, Michigan, Oklahoma
  • Pawnee (Dialects: South Bet , Skiri ) Oklahoma
  • Pikuni (Blackfeet, Piegan)
  • Sahnish (Arikara)
  • Sarsi ( Sarcee )
  • Sauk (originally around the Great Lakes, deported in 1830 by the Indian Removal Act in Kansas in Oklahoma and Iowa )
  • Siksika
  • Sioux
    • Dakota
      • Lakota (South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, northeastern Colorado)
        • Teton
          • Hunkpapa
          • Itazipacola Also called Itazipco, Sans Arcs
          • Mnikoozu Also called Miniconjou
          • Oglala
          • Oohenonpa Also known as Two-Kettle
          • Sicangu Also called Burned, Burnt Thighs
          • Sihasapa Also called Blackfoot
      • Nakota Also called Yankton. (Southern Minnesota, northern Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota)
        • Assiniboine
        • Hunkpati
        • Ihanktonwan Also called Yankton
        • Ihanktonwana Also called Yanktonai
      • Santee Dakota Also called by other tribes. (Minnesota, North East and South Dakota, Iowa, Canada)
        • Mdwakanton Also called Mdewkanton
        • Sissetanwan Also called Sisseton
        • Wahpekute
        • Wahpetonwan Also called Wahpeton
    • Chiwere
      • Iowa
      • Oto Otoe Also called. (Oklahoma)
      • Missouri (MO)
    • Dhegiha
      • Omaha (Nebraska)
      • Ponca (Nebraska, Oklahoma)
      • Quapaw (Arkansas, Oklahoma)
      • Osage (Oklahoma)
      • Kansa
    • Hidatsa
      • Hidatsa also called Gros Ventre of the Missouri
      • Crow also called Crow, Absaroka Apsalooke
    • Mandan
      • Mandan
  • Stoney
  • Tamique
  • Tonkawa Oklahoma
  • Wichita Oklahoma The regions of southeast

    Adai Ais Florida Alabama Apalachee Florida Atakapa Bidaayah Biloxi Mississippi Caddo Calusa Catawba Chatot Chawasha Cherokee Chiaha Chickahominy Virginia Chickamauga Chickasaw Chitimacha Choctaw Creek Alabama; Oklahoma, Georgia Coushatta Louisiana Zohar Cusabo Hitchiti Houma Louisiana ISWA Jeager Florida Koasati Lumbee

    Mattaponi Virginia Meherrin North Carolina Mikasuki Florida Mobile Moilama Monacan Virginia Nansemond Virginia Natchez, Mississippi, Louisiana Nottoway OFO Pamlico ( Carolina ) Pamunkey Virginia Pee Dee South Carolina, North Carolina Pensacola Rappahannock Virginia Saponi Seminole Florida, Oklahoma Taensas Tawas Tekeste Florida Timucua (UTIN) Florida Topachula Florida Tuskegee Tutelo Tunica Mississippi Waccamaw North Carolina, South Carolina Woccon Yamasee Yuchi

    Regions Southwest

    Pueblo Acoma or Ak Chin Arizona Apache Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma Chiricahua Cochin Baja California Cochiti Cocopa Arizona Halchidhoma Hano Hualapai Havasupai Arizona Hohokam Arizona Hopi Arizona Pueblo South Pueblo South (Isleta) Pueblo Jemez Jicarilla Jumano Karankawa Kavelchadhom Pueblo Kerez Laguna Luceros Maricopa Mescalero Apache Mohave Nambe Navajo Opata PueblosPecos Pericu , Baja California Pueblo Picuris

    Pima Arizona Pima Bajo Piro Pueblo tribe, New Mexico Qahatika Quechan Arizona Pueblo Setia (Nafiat was the name given to the Pueblo Bernalillo) Pueblo San Carlos Pueblo San Felipe Pueblo San Ildefonso Pueblo San Juan Pueblo Santa Ana Pueblo Santa Clara Pueblo Santo Domingo Seri Suma Pueblos Taos Pueblo Tesuque Pueblo Tewa Pueblo Tigua Toboso Tohono O'odham ( Papago ) Arizona Northern Tonto Tonto South Waicuri ( Guaicura ) Baja California Walapai White Mountain Yavapai Arizona Yuman ( Quechan ) Pueblo Zia | Zia Pueblo Zuni

    The peoples of Central America

    Main article: Indians in Latin American society in the twentieth century.

    The Indians of Central America are generally classified by language but also in terms of their environmental and cultural traits.

    The Caribbean and West Indies

    Main article: Native Americans of the West Indies.
    • Ciboney
    • Arawak
      • Taino
      • Lucayan
    • Caribbean
    • Garifuna
    • Kuna

    The Mesoamerica

    • Aztec
    • Conchos
    • Guachichiles
    • Guaymi
    • Huaxtec
    • Jicaques
    • Lenca
    • Maya
      • Mam
    • Mosquitos
      • Quiche
      • Tzeltal
      • Tzotzil
      • Tojolabal
      • Chol
    • Mazatec
    • Mixtec
    • Otomi
    • Olmec
    • Pames
    • Papago
    • Pipil
    • Tarahumara
    • Tepehuas
    • Tarascan
    • Teotihuacan
    • Tepanecs
    • Toltec
    • Totonac
    • Ulvas
    • Zapotec
    • Zoques

    The peoples of South America

    Main article: Indians in Latin American society in the twentieth century.

    Regions Andean

    • Atacameo
    • Araucanians
    • Aymara
      • Angaraes
      • Aymaraes
      • Cabana-Condes
      • Callahuaya
      • Canas
      • Canchis
      • Canta
      • Cara-caras
      • Carangas
      • Carum
      • Chancas
      • Charcas
      • Waterpipes
      • Chocorbos
      • Chuis
      • Chumbivilcas
      • Collaguas
      • Collas
      • Condes
      • Cotabambas
      • Huanca
      • Lipes
      • Lucanas
      • Lupaca
      • Muiscas
      • Pacajes
      • Parinacochas
      • Quechua
      • Quilacas-Asanaques
      • Soras
      • Ubinas
      • Yampara
      • Yanahuara
      • Yauyos
    • Chachapoyas
    • Chavin
    • Chimu
    • Diaguita
    • Huari
    • Inca
    • Ugly
    • Nazca
    • Paracas
    • Saraguro
    • Sican
    • Tiahuanaco

    Areas of the Andean foothills

    • Panoan
    • Jivaro : Shuar , Achuar , Shiwiar , Aguarunas , Huambisa
    • Shipibo (Ucayali region (Peruvian Amazonia))
    • zaparoan languages : Zapara , Iquitos , Ando , Arabela

    The Amazon West

    • Tukanoan (or Ticuna )
    • Yagua

    The Amazon Center

    • Arawak
    • Tupian
    • Culinas

    The Amazon in eastern and southern

    • Ashaninka
    • ASHENINKA
    • Ge
      • Bororo
    • Tupian
      • Guarani Paraguay
    • Kalapalo
    • Kayapo
    • Xavante
    • Potiguara
    • Shipibo
    • Guajajara
    • Pataxos
    • Yine

    The southern tip of America

    • Mapuche (Araucanian)
    • Puelche
    • Tehuelche
    • Yamana
    • Kaweshkar
    • Selknam
    • Charruas
    • Gauchos

    Language groups

    Main article: Native American Languages.

    References

    
    

    Bibliography

    See also

    Related articles

    • Indians in Canada
    • Quebec Native
    • Indians of North Portal
    • Portal minorities

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