This is a difficult issue to address, considering the historic plight of Native Americans and the highly controversial nature of the relationship between the United States government and native tribes. Native Americans were not officially granted US citizenship until 1924,…
The Seminole Indians are a tribe of Native American people originally from Florida. They are a relatively newly-formed tribe, developed from the intermingling of escaped African-American slaves, Creek Indians from the state of Georgia, and Muscogees. The tribe's name is…
Chinook is the name given to multiple groups of Native Americans who share a common history of speaking one of the three main Chinookian languages. Now numbering about 2,000 members, the nation of Chinook Indians is predominately based in Oregon…
The Cheyenne Indians, one of the Plains Indian tribes, are a Native American nation which owns two reservations; one in southwestern Montana, where the Northern Cheyenne live, and one in Oklahoma, which is the home of the Southern Cheyenne and…
The Cayuga Indians were originally found in what is now New York state in the United States. While many Cayuga descendants remain in the New York area, many more were forced to migrate to what is now Wisconsin and Oklahoma,…
The Umatilla tribe is one of three Native American tribes, along with the Cayuse and Walla Walla, which live on the Umatilla Indiana Reservation in the state of Oregon in the United States. The Umatilla’s traditional homeland includes the Columbia…
The Shoshone tribe is made up of several groups of indigenous people whose ancestors occupied lands in what is now the western United States. There are nine different Shoshone tribes, and each lives on its own reservation. An estimated 1,000…
The Quileute (pronounced "quill-ee-yoot") tribe is a Native American nation located in the western part of the state of Washington in the United States. The Quileute tribe inhabits the community of La Push, located on the state's Olympic Peninsula. They…
The Pomo tribe is a group of Native American people who originally lived in California. Historically, the Pomo tribe had a vast area of land under its control. Today, many of the groups are officially recognized by the United States…
The Omaha tribe is a group of Native Americans generally associated with the US state of Nebraska, although that isn't the tribe’s original home. Some research suggests that the tribe originally migrated from the East Coast, but that happened so…