| MAJOR AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES OF THE USA | ||||||
| Southeast | Northeast | Great Lakes | Great Plains | California/ Intermountain | Northwest/ Alaska | Southwest |
| Cherokee | Algonquin | Chippewa | Sioux | Paiute | Spokane | Navajo |
| Seminole | Iriquois | Fox | Blackfeet | Shoshone | Eskimo | Apache |
| Catawba | Narragansett | Potawatomi | Cheyenne | Cahuilla | Aleut | Pueblo |
| Chickasaw | Pequot | Huron | Comanche | Chumash | Athabascan | Chemihuevi |
| Choctaw | Wampanoag | Menominee | Arapoho | Costanoan | Colville | Hopi |
| Creek | Abenaki | Miami | Dakota | Diegueno | Crow | Mojave |
| Houma | Delaware | Oneida | Kiowa | Hupa | Nez Perce | Pima |
| Lumbee | Mohegan | Onondaga | Osage | Luiseno | Tlingit | Yaqui |
| Shawnee | Penobscot | Ottawa | Pawnee | Pomo | Yakama | Yuma |
| Timucuan | Powhatan | Winnebago | Wichita | Ute | Puget Sound Salish | Tohono O'odham |
| 2000 TOP 25 AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES | ||
| Rank | Tribe | Population |
| 1 | Cherokee | 281,069 |
| 2 | Navajo | 269,202 |
| 3 | Sioux | 108,272 |
| 4 | Chippewa | 105,907 |
| 5 | Aztec/Latin American | 104,354 |
| 6 | Choctaw | 87,349 |
| 7 | Pueblo | 59,533 |
| 8 | Apache | 57,060 |
| 9 | Lumbee | 51,913 |
| 10 | Alaskan Eskimo | 45,919 |
| 11 | Iroquois | 45,212 |
| 12 | Creek | 40,223 |
| 13 | Blackfeet | 27,104 |
| 14 | Chickasaw | 20,887 |
| 15 | Tohono O'odham | 17,466 |
| 16 | Potawatomi | 15,817 |
| 17 | Yaqui | 15,224 |
| 18 | Alaskan Tlingit | 14,825 |
| 19 | Alaskan Athabascans | 14,520 |
| 20 | Seminole | 12,431 |
| 21 | Alaskan Aleut | 11,941 |
| 22 | Cheyenne | 11,191 |
| 23 | Puget Sound Salish | 11,034 |
| 24 | Comanche | 10,120 |
| 25 | Paiute | 9,705 |