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This list of Alaska Native tribal entities names the federally recognized tribes in the state of Alaska. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register, Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [1] when the number of ...
Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Russian Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures. They are often defined by their ...
For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities. As of January 8, 2024, 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States. [2] [3] Of these, 227 are located in Alaska and 109 are located in California.
This category collects articles concerning the over 230 Alaska Native tribal entities which are recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as having a government-to-government relationship with the U.S. federal government. For the Alaska Native peoples often loosely referred to as "tribes," see Category: Alaska Native ethnic groups.
Flags of Wisconsin tribes in the Wisconsin state capitol. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [4] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
Tlingit has an estimated 200 to 400 native speakers in the United States and 100 speakers in Canada. [6] The speakers are bilingual or near-bilingual in English. Tribes, institutions, and linguists are expending extensive effort into revitalization programs in Southeast Alaska to revive and preserve the Tlingit language and its culture.
Dawson Her Many Horses: Native American and Alaskan Native communities are more than an ethnic group or racial category. Tribal members, like myself, are also members of Native nations.
This category collects articles concerning Alaska Native ethnic groups. While often referred to loosely as "tribes,' the names of the various Alaska Native peoples are to be distinguished from the Alaska Native tribal entities which are federally recognized as tribes by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.