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Flags of Wisconsin tribes in the Wisconsin state capitol. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [4] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
Populations are the total census counts and include non-Native American people as well, sometimes making up a majority of the residents. The total population of all of them is 1,043,762. [citation needed] A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental United States
Aaron Carapella is an American self-taught cartographer who makes maps of the locations and names of Pre-Columbian Indigenous tribes of North America circa 1490. At age 19, he began his map-making research and as of 2014, he has made maps of Indigenous tribes with their original names for the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Indigenous America Maps: Author: Peter Klumpenhower: Permission (Reusing this file) "This map is released into the public domain by its author, Peter Klumpenhower. You may copy, distribute, and modify this map for any purpose… CC0 1.0, public domain" (See lower right corner of map.)
Language families of Indigenous peoples in North America shown across present-day Canada, Greenland, the United States, and northern Mexico (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas) Image 30 Members of an uncontacted tribe encountered in Acre in present-day Brazil in 2009 (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas )
Indigenous peoples in what is now the contiguous United States, including their descendants, were commonly called American Indians, or simply Indians domestically and since the late 20th century the term Native American came into common use. In Alaska, Indigenous peoples belong to 11 cultures with 11 languages.
A number of Native American tribes took captives in war, but usually these captives were able to later become full members of the community via adoption or marriage. [34] While this has been called "slavery" by some anthropologists, none of the named tribes exploited slave labor on a large scale. [ 34 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. Indigenous peoples of the United States This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (October 2024) Ethnic group Native Americans ...