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The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register , Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [ 1 ] when the number of Alaskan Native tribes entities totaled 231.
Miami – Native American name for Lake Okeechobee and the Miami River, precise origin debated; see also Mayaimi [44] Micanopy – named after Seminole chief Micanopy. Myakka City – from unidentified Native American language. Ocala – from Timucua meaning "Big Hammock".
In some western states, notably Nevada, there are Native American areas called Indian colonies. 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]
Binnyanaktuk Creek – from an Iñupiaq phrase meaning "superlatively rugged".; Iliamna Lake – from the Dena'ina phrase nila vena, meaning "lake of the island".; Ipnek Creek – from an Iñupiaq word ipnaiq meaning "sheep".
American Indian and Alaska Native in combination with one or more other races American Indian and Alaska Native alone or in any combination1 One tribe/tribal grouping reported: Two or more tribes/tribal groupings reported1: One tribe/tribal grouping reported: Two or more tribes/tribal groupings reported1 American Indian and Alaska Native (300 ...
For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities. As of January 8, 2024, 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States. [2] [3] Of these, 227 are located in Alaska and 109 are located in California.
Kaktovik Village is headquartered in the city of Kaktovik in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. [2] As of 2005, the tribe had 231 enrolled citizens. [3]American institutions hold 700 Native American remains of interest to Kaktovik Village. 23 remains and 4,900 funerary objects have been repatriated to the tribe. 21 remains were repatriated by the U.S. Department of the Interior and two remains ...
A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000: 286–7. ISBN 978-0-19-513877-1. Kan, Sergei. "Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past." Klass, Morton and Maxine Wiesgrau, eds. Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion.