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Native Americans of North America

Regional Map

Prehistoric Cultures

Cultures by Region

Biographies of Famous Native Americans

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 Websites on Native American Cultures

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Cultures by Region

 Tribes of . . .

Northeast Woodlands     Southeast Woodlands    Great Plains      Desert Southwest     Great Basin    Plateau  California Coast

Pacific Northwest Coast     Far North  

Northeast Woodlands  

  • Abenaki

  • Algonkin (Algonquin)

  • Cayuga

  • Chesapeake

  • Chicahominy

  • Chippewa

  • Delaware (Lenapi et al.)

  • Erie

  • Fox

  • Huron (Wyandot)

  • Illinois

  • Iroquois

  • Kaskinampo

  • Kickapoo

  • Lenapi

  • Lenni

  • Maida

  • Massachuset

  • Menominee

  • Miami

  • Mic-Mac

  • Mohawk

  • Mohegan

  • Montauk

  • Narragansett

  • Onandaga

  • Oneida

  • Ottawa

  • Passamaquoddy

  • Pawtuxet

  • Penobscot

  • Pequot

  • Pimlico

  • Potawatomi

  • Powhatan

  • Roanoke

  • Renape

  • Sauk

  • Secutani

  • Susquehannok

  • Teague

  • Tobacco

  • Tuscarora

  • Wampanoag

Credits: Fox, Carol (photographer). Native American women tableau. Taken at Burpee Museum, Rockford, IL, 2007.

 
Southeast Woodlands  
Language-Based Nations

  • Apalachee

  • Bear River

  • Biloxi

  • Caddo

  • Cape Fear

  • Catawba

  • Cheraw

  • Cherokee

  • Chickasaw

  • Chitimacha

  • Choctaw

  • Chowan

  • Coree

  • Creek

  • Eno

  • Hatteras

  • Keyauwee

  • Meherrin

  • Mobile

  • Moratok

  • Muskogee

  • Nachapunga

  • Natchez

  • Neuse River

  • Occaneechi

  • Pamlico

  • Pensacola

  • Saponi

  • Shakori

  • Sissipahaw

  • Sugaree

  • Tempitoula

  • Timucua

  • Tuscarora

  • Tuskegee

  • Tutelo

  • Waccamaw

  • Wateree

  • Waxhaw

  • Weapomeoc

  • Woccon

 

 

Photo Credit: Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University

Sequoyah

Sequoyah was a Cherokee Indian and inventor of written alphabet for the Cherokee language.  This picture is often used to represent Sequoyah but an ancestor claims there has never been a likeness of Sequoyah.

Great Plains

The Plains Indians

Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

Missouri Indians (National Geographic Article)

Credits: Fox, Carol (photographer). American Bison (buffalo) tableau. Taken at Burpee Museum, Rockford, IL, 2007.

 
Desert Southwest

 

 

Hopi Women climbing home

Credits: Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian": the Photographic Images, 2001. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

 

 

 
Great Basin

Native People of North America: Chuck Smith, Cabrillo College: Great Basin Culture Area

Paiute Wickiup

Source: Unknown

  • Cahuilla

  • Chemehuevi

  • Comanche

  • Cupeno

  • Diegueno

  • Gosiute

  • Kaibab

  • Kawaiisu

 

  • Mono

  • Northern Paiute

  • Paiute

  • Panamint

  • Shoshoni – Wind River

  • Shoshoni – Bannock

  • Ute

  • Washo

 
 

Credits: North American Indian: Plateau Indians. [Map/Still]. Retrieved July  3,  2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-327

Plateau

  • Bitterroot Salish

  • Cayuse

  • Chelan

  • Coeur D’Alene

  • Columbia

  • Colville

  • Cowlitz

  • Flathead

  • Kalispel

  • Kittitas

  • Klamath

  • Klickitat

  • Kutenai (BC)

  • Lake (BC)

  • Lillooet (BC)

  • Modok

  • Molala

  • Nespelim

  • Nez Perce'

  • Okanogan (BC)

  • Palouse

  • Pend D’Orielle

  • Salish

  • Sanpoil

  • Shuswap (BC)

  • Sinkaietk

  • Skitswish

  • Snoquaimi

  • Spokane

  • Tenino

  • Thompson

  • Tlakluit

  • Umatilla

  • Walla Walla

  • Walula

  • Wanapum

  • Wenatchi

  • Wishram

  • Yakima

 
California Coast  

Links to Smithsonian photographs by Charles Curtis.

This list is not complete and spelling often varies.

Credits: Jones, Terry (photographer). Replica of a sewn-plank "Chumash Tomol" constructed by J. P. Harrington in 1912. Picture from California State Parks Website.
Pacific Northwest Coast  
 

Wife of Makah Chief Tatooche. Sketch by Spaniard

seaman in late 1700s. Tatooche Island, off the

northern coast of Olympic Peninsula.

Credits: Jones, Ruby,Robert and John A. Brown. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Norman: OK, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

 
Far North (Arctic and Subarctic)  
 
  • Agliemiut
  • Ahtena
  • Aleut
  • Bellacoola
  • Comox
  • Eskimo
  • Ieyak
  • Inuit
  • Kotzebue
  • Koyukan
  • Kutchin
  • Kwakiutl
  • Tanaina
  • Tlingit
  • Nootka
  • Unalit
  • Haida

                                                                                                                                  Photo credits: Microsoft Clipart

 

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