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Official website of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The people of Standing Rock, often called Sioux, are members of the Dakota and Lakota nations.

The Southeastern Cherokee Council, Inc., is a non-profit organzation registered in the state of Georgia with Bands located in all 50 states. The purpose of SECCI is to assist in and promote the confederacy of the Cherokee Indian Nation and to promote and study the heritage of its people for the general benefit and good in the community, in the state and in the nation and to improve the quality of life, to promote cultural events, and to preserve the heritage of the Cherokee Indian Nation.

Read success stories of the Squaxin Island Tribe - Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma - Shoshone Paiute Tribes - Duckwater Tribe - Coeur d'Alene Tribe - Cocopah Tribe - Absentee Shawnee Tribe - Hoopa Valley Tribe - Kawerak Incorporated of Alaska - Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of Arizona - Lower Elwha S'Klallam Tribe of Western Washington - Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC)in Fairbanks, Alaska - Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma - Lummi Indian Nation - Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma - Squaxin Island Tribe of Puget Sound, Washington - Quinault Indian Nation Education Program - Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin - Siletz (The "Comeback Tribe") - Chippewa Cree Tribe of Montana - and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe - all demonstrating self-governance in action.

The Tulalip Reservation was established by the Point Elliott Treaty of January 22, 1855 and enlarged by Executive Order of December 23, 1873. It was established to provide a permanent home for the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish and Stillaguamish Tribes and allied bands living in the region.

The official tribal website of the Wacamaw Indian People. Welcome!

The ancestors of Wampanoag people have lived for at least 10,000 years at Aquinnah (Gay Head) and throughout the island of Noepe (Martha's Vineyard), pursuing a traditional economy based on fishing and agriculture. In 1972 the "Wampanoag Tribal Council of Gay Head, Inc." was formed to promote self-determination, to ensure preservation and continuation of Wampanoag history and culture, to achieve federal recognition for the tribe, and to seek the return of tribal lands to the Wampanoag people. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) became a federally acknowledged Native American Indian tribe in 1987.

A short history of the Yaqui Indians by by MAIC Member Ted Glines. Also be sure to visit the official Yaqui Nation Website: http://www.pascuayaquitribe.org/

The official website of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona. Our beautiful home abounds in wildlife, tradition, outdoor recreation and resources unparalleled in the Southwest. Home to Historic Fort Apache, the White Mountain Apache Reservation offers something for everyone!

Learn about the history and culture of the Apache Indians : The Tribe currently has over 12,000 members located on nine major reservation communities in Arizona and Colorado. Whiteriver, the capital, is the largest community with over 2,500 residents. Includes a comprehensive list of links to Apache and Apache-related websites on the Internet.

The story of the Arapaho people in three parts:

• Part 1 - The Origins of the Earth and the Arapaho Nation
• Part 2 - The Buffalo and Nomadic Life
• Part 3 - The Arapaho and the Wind River Reservation

Official website of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, including The Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla people.

History, language and culture of the Cheyenne Tribe of American Indians. Very interesting to read!

The official website of the Chickasaw Nation. Also see: The Chickasaw Times - the official online publication of the Chickasaw Nation.

The Chumash are best known for their seafaring plank canoes, their fine basketry, their mysterious cave paintings and their money made from shells. This website includes information about the Chumash people's daily lives, as well as resources archived by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

The Cocopah Indian Reservation is located in low-lying desert approximately 13 miles south of Yuma and bounded by the Colorado River. Just five miles north of San Luis, it is situated 180 miles east of San Diego and 180 miles west of Phoenix. As the Community is divided into three parcels, the tribe’s 816 members reside in either East Cocopah, West Cocopah, or North Cocopah.

The official website of the Coeur d' Alene tribe. In the tribe's own ancient language it is called Schitsu'umsh, meaning "Those who are found here," or "The discovered people." Here remains a land abundant in beauty and resources, a legacy of leadership, and a lineage that continues from time immemorial. The Coeur d' Alene's are who they always were and who they will always be.

Learn about the various Indian tribes that make up the Haudenosaunee Nations. This website is built on the philosophy that Peace can be obtained for all the sacred colors of mankind and harmony restored to Mother Earth when people honor and respect the original instructions that were given to each people by the Creator.

Unlike the popularized images of the equestrian, warring Plains Indians that roamed the western plains, free of conventional responsibilities and one with nature, the Hidatsa Indians of North Dakota were a relatively sedentary people who owed their economic security to agriculture.

Learn about Hopi culture - history - traditions - government - clothing - games and more at this, the official website of the Hopi Tribe.

A newsletter for thinking people, especially those concerned about the future and fate of the Hopi in today's world, and as an educational help for the young people of the Hopi and all other native nations. The newsletter is no longer published but these 44 archived issues are priceless.

A educational site about the Cherokee people and the Cherokee people of Indiana. How they came to be in Indiana, their customs, languages and legends.

Learn about Inupiat Eskimo family and social life in North Alaska prior to the arrival of European explorers in the late 18th and early 19th century. Arctic Alaska, stretching from Norton Sound to the Canadian border, was the location of numerous distinct Inupiaq-speaking groups each associated with a particular territory.

Read about the Iowa (a.k.a. Ioway) tribe that lived in the Midwest. Topics include their clothing, food, hairstyles, tattoos, and more.

The Karuk Tribe was federally recognized in 1979 and has since grown to be among the largest Tribal governments in California. There are currently more than 3,300 enrolled Tribal members. The Karuk Tribe adopted its formal Constitution on April 6, 1985. Its service region includes all of Siskiyou County and eastern Humboldt County, from the Siskiyou County - Oregon border to Bluff Creek, California - an area of approximately 4,000 square miles.

Our goal is to provide resources not currently available to schools, foster homes, shelters and similar organizations on Pine Ridge Reservation, and to donate in ways that help preserve and support the Lakota culture. We do so with respect for the dignity of our neighbors on Pine Ridge Reservation.

The Lummi people traditionally lived near the sea and in mountain areas and returned seasonally to their longhouses located at a number of sites on the present reservation and on the San Juan Islands. Smoke-dried seafood, camas bulbs, sun-dried berries and all species of shellfish, crab, salmon, trout, elk, deer, and other land and sea mammals made up the traditional Lummi diet. The Lummi people continue to speak the traditional Salishan language. They expressed their language and religious traditions through elaborate carvings on totems and ceremonies. The Lummi Reservation is seven miles northwest of Bellingham, Washington, in the western portion of Whatcom County 95 miles north of Seattle.

Learn about the Maidu Indians - past and present.

The Miami Tribe currently has about 6000 members in Indiana and over 2000 in Oklahoma. The name 'Miami' comes from their Ojibwe name, Oumami (Oumamik, Owmaweg, Omaumeg) "people of the peninsula" altered by the French and English into our familiar form of Miami (Maumee). This web page provides extensive detail of the history and culture of the Miami tribe of Native American Indians.

There may have been as many as 300,000 Native Americans living in California before the Christian missionaries arrived in 1769. By 1910 only 17,000 California Native Americans remained. They were nearly eliminated in the short span of 140 years. In this report we will discuss some of these Native Californians with emphasis on the coast Miwok tribe.

The ancestral homeland of the Mohawk Nation is the Mohawk River Valley of present day New York State. The Mohawks are considered the easternmost tribe within the Iroquois/Six Nations Confederacy consisting of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora Nations. A history of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.