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Over 60 million Brazilians possess at least one Native South American ancestor, according to a DNA study. [22] While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, [23] estimates range from 3.8 million, as mentioned above, to 7 million [24] people to a high of 18 million. [25]
Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [1] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California.
In 1918, three Ponca men, Frank Eagle, Louis McDonald, and McKinley Eagle, helped co-found the Native American Church. [15] [16]: 224–226 As of 2024, the Native American Church is the most widespread Indigenous religion among Native Americans in the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico, having an estimated 300,000 adherents.
By 1800, the Native population of the present-day United States had declined to approximately 600,000, and only 250,000 Native Americans remained in the 1890s. [43] A conference of French and Indian leaders around a ceremonial fire by Émile Louis Vernier
The Muscogee Nation, or Muscogee (Creek) Nation, [3] is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.The nation descends from the historic Muscogee Confederacy, a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.
There is also a significant Mexican population in Oklahoma. [5] Oklahoma has a large Native American population. [6] In the state, the population was spread out, with 24.8% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.2 years.
The 1890 Oklahoma Organic Act organized the western half of Indian Territory and a strip of country north of Texas known as No Man's Land (now the Oklahoma Panhandle) into Oklahoma Territory. Native American reservations in the new territory were then opened to settlement in a series of land runs in 1890, 1891, and 1893.
This U.S. Census Bureau map depicts the locations of differing Native American groups, including Indian reservations, as of 2000; present-day Oklahoma in the Southwestern United States, which was once designated as an Indian Territory before Oklahoma's statehood in 1907, is highlighted in blue. 78% of Native Americans live outside a reservation.