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Tribal Ancestry

Native American Culture Areas

Index of Native American language and cultural arranged by culture area.
Arctic culture area Subarctic culture area Northeast woodlands culture area
Southeast culture area Great Plains culture area Great Basin culture area
Plateau culture area Northwest culture area California culture area
Southwest culture area Mesoamerican culture area Caribbean culture area
Andean culture area Amazonian culture area Cono/Southern culture area

"American Indian Story - The Adventures of Sha'kona"

Native American Myths About Creation

North American Indian Tribes

From the date of its first appearance in 1891 the Powell map of "Linguistic Families of American Indians North of Mexico" has proved of the widest utility. It has been reissued several times and copied into numerous publications. There has, however, been almost equal need of a map giving the location of the tribes under the several families. To one familiar from his readings in early American history with the names and locations of our prominent eastern "tribes," such as the Delaware, Iroquois, Cherokee, and Choctaw, the preparation of a tribal map would seem to be simple, and it would indeed be so if all Indians had been grouped into bodies as clearly marked as those mentioned.

But even in the eastern United States the term "tribe" is quickly found to have no uniform application. The Creeks were a confederation of a few dominant tribes and a number of subordinate bodies, each formerly independent. The name "Delaware" is commonly said to have covered three tribes or sub-tribes, but while two of these seem never to have been independent of each other, the third, the Munsee, is often treated as if it were entirely separate. The name "Powhatan" was applied to about 30 tribes or sub-tribes which had been brought together by conquest only a few years before Virginia was settled, and the term "Chippewa," or "Ojibwa," is used for a multitude of small bands with little claim to any sort of governmental unity. In the case of the Iroquois, on the other hand, the tribe was only a part of the governmental unit, the Iroquois Confederation, or Longhouse. Read Introduction to Indian tribes of North America

Maps of United States Indians by State

Alabama	Alaska	Arizona tribes	Arkansas tribes	California tribes
Colorado	Connecticut	Delaware tribes	Florida Indian tribes	Georgia tribes
Hawaiian	Idaho tribes	Illinois tribes	Indiana Indian tribes	Iowa tribes
Kansas	Kentucky tribes	Louisiana tribes	Maine Indian tribes	Maryland tribes
Massachusetts	Michigan tribes	Minnesota tribes	Mississippi tribes	Missouri tribes
Montana	Nebraska tribes	Nevada tribes	New Hampshire tribes	New Jersey tribes
New Mexico	New York tribes	North Carolina tribes	North Dakota tribes	Ohio Indian tribes
Oklahoma	Oregon tribes	Pennsylvania tribes	Rhode Island tribes	South Carolina tribes
South Dakota	Tennessee tribes	Texas Indian tribes	Utah Indian tribes	Vermont tribes
Virginia	Washington	West Virginia tribes	Wisconsin tribes	Wyoming tribes

Northeast Includes the following States Connecticut | Delaware | District of Columbia | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Vermont Includes the following Indian Tribes

Abenaki Acquintanacsnak Algonkin Algonquian Family Arosaguntacook Atquanachuke Beothuk Family Brotherton Chickahominy Conestoga Delaware Erie Fox Hathawekela Huron Illinois Iroquois Kickapoo Manhattan Mahican Malecite Marameg Martha's Vineyard Indians Mascouten Mashpee Maskegon Massachuset Matinecoc Mattabesic Meits Metoac Miami Mohawk Mohegan Moravians Munsee Nanticoke Narragansett Nauset Neutrals Niantic (Eastern) (Western) Nipissing Nipmuc Ojibwe Onondaga Ontonagon Passamaquoddy Pennacook Penobscot Pequawket Pequot Piankashaw Pocomtic Poosepatuck Potawatomi Powhatan Saconnet Saluda Saponi Sauk Seneca Shawnee Shinnecock Susquehanna Tionontati Tutelo Tunxis Unalachtigo Unami Wampanoag Wappinger Weanoc Wenrohronon

Upper Eastern

Includes the Following States

Indiana | Kentucky | North Carolina | Tennessee
Virginia | West Virginia

Includes the Following Native American Tribes

Includes the Following States

Alabama | Florida | Georgia | Mississippi | South Carolina

Includes the Following Indian Tribes

Acolapissa Acuera Alabana Amacano Alibamu Apalachee Apaiachicola Atsina
Bayogoula Bayougoula Biloxi Calusa Caparaz Capinans Catawba Chakchiuma Chatot Chactoo Chatot Cherokee Chesapeake Chiaha Chine Christanna Indians Choula Chickasaw Chitamacha Choctaw Congaree Creek Cusabo Eno Grigra Guacata Guale Hathawekela Hitchiti Houma Icaful Jeags Karankawa Karok Kasihta Keyauwee Koasati Koroa Lumbee Macapiras Manahoac Matchotic Mikasuki Mobile Moctobi Monacan Muklasa Muskogee Nappissa Napochi Natchez Nottaway Ocale Occaneechi Oçita Oconee Ofo Okelousa Onathequa Onatheaqua Osochi Pascagoula Pawokti Pedee Pensacola Pohoy Powhatan Quapaw Saluda Santee Santee Saturiba Seminole Sewee Shakori Shawnee Sissipahaw Sugeree Tacatacuru Taensa Taposa Tekesta Tequesta Timucua Family Tohome Tunica Tuscarora Tuskegee Tutelo Ucita Utina Waccamaw Wateree Waxhaw Winyaw Yamasee Yuchi Yufera Yui Yustaga

Upper Mid-West

Includes the following States

Illinois | Michigan | Ohio | Wisconsin

Includes the Following Native American Tribes

Upper Plains

Includes the Following States

Iowa | Kansas | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska
North Dakota | South Dakota

Includes the Following Indian Tribes

Lower Plains

Includes the Following States

Arkansas | Louisiana | Oklahoma | Texas

Includes the Following Native American Tribes

Acolapissa Adai Alabama Anadarko Apache Apalachee Aranama Arapaho Avoyel Bayogoula Bidai Biloxi Caddo Cahinnio Chatot Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Choctaw Coahuiltecan Tribes Comanche Coaque Creeks Deadose Delaware Dotame Doustioni Eyeish Foxes Guasas Hainai Hathawekela (Absentee Shawnee) Hitchiti Huma Illinois Iowa Iroquois Isleta del Sur Jicarilla Kadohadacho Kansa Karankawan Karankawan Family Kaskinampo Kichai Kickapoo Kiowa Kiowa Apache Koasati Koroa Lipan Manso Miami Michigamea Missouri Modoc Mosopelea Mugulasha Munsee Muskogee Nabedache Nacisi Nacogdoche Nanatsoho Natchez Nez Percé Natchitoch Natchitoches Confederacy Ofo Okelousa Opelousa Osage Oto Ottawa Ouachita Pascagoula Patiri Pawnee Peoria Pinkashaw Ponca Potawatomi Pueblos Quapaw Quinipissa Sauk Seminole Seneca Shawnee Soacatino Souchitioni Taensa Tangipahoa Tawakoni Tawasa Tawehash Tonkawa Tunica Tuskegee Waco Washa Wea Wichita Wyandot Yscanis Yatasi Yazoo Yojuane Yscani Yuchi

Includes the Following States

Colorado | Idaho | Montana | Utah | Wyoming

Includes the Following Indian Tribes

Includes the Following States

Arizona | Nevada | New Mexico

Includes the Following Native American Tribes

Includes the Following States

Oregon | Washington

Includes the Following Indian Tribes

Ahantchuyuk Alsea Atfalati Athapascan Family Bannock Chakankni Calapooya Calapuya Cathlamet Cathlacomatup Cathlacumup Cathlakaheckit Cathlamet Cathlanahquiah Cathlapotle Cathlathlalas Cayuse Chasta Chaui Chehalis Chastacosta Chasta-Soton Chaushila Chelamela Chelamela Chepenafa Chetco Chilluckkittequaw Chilliwack Chimakum Chimakuan Family Chinook Chinookan Family Clackama Clallam Clatsop Colville Columbians Cowichan Cowlitz Dakubetede Dwamish Hanis Hoh Humptulips Kalapooian Family Kalispel Klallam Klamath Klickitat Kosotshe Kuitsh Kusan Kwaiailk Kwalhioqua Lakmiut Lohim Lummi Lutuamian Family Makah Methow Mishikhwutmetunne Modoc Molala Muckleshoot Multnomah Naltunnetunne Neketemeuk Nemalquinner Nespelem Nez Percé Nisqualli Nooksack Ntlakyapamuk Okanagon Paiute Paloos Palouse Pshwanwapam Puyallup Queets Quileute Quinaielt Quinault Salish Salish Family Samish Sanpoil Santiam Satsop Semiahmoo Senijextee Shasta Shahala Shahaptian Family Shoshonean Family Shoshoni Siletz Sinkakaius Sinkiuse Siuslaw Skaddal Skagit Skilloot Snake Snohomish Snoqualmie Squaxon Stehtsasamish Stillaquamish Suquamish Swallah/Swalash Swinomish Taidhapam Takelma Taltushtuntude Tenino Tillamook Tulalip Tutuni Twana Tyigh Umatilla Umpqua Walla Walla Walpapi Wanapam Wasco Watlala Wauyukma Wenatchee Wishram Wynoochee Yahuskin Yakima Yakonan Yamel Yaquina Yonkalla

Includes the Following Native American Tribes

Some Canadian Tribes

Includes the Following Indian Tribes

Indian Genealogy

Notes About the Book:

Source: The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton, 1953,

Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.

Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd.

Minimal editing has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual output.

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