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The list is maintained in alphabetical order with respect to the name of the tribe or village. Note that while the names of Alaska Native tribal entities often include "Village of" or "Native Village of," in most cases, the tribal entity cannot be considered as identical to the city, town, or census-designated place in which the tribe is ...
American Indian and Alaska Native alone or in any combination1 One tribe/tribal grouping reported: Two or more tribes/tribal groupings reported1: One tribe/tribal grouping reported: Two or more tribes/tribal groupings reported1 American Indian and Alaska Native (300, A01-Z99) Tallied1 101 595: 6 582: 31 572: 3 766: 143 515 American Indian and ...
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
Klawock – from the Tlingit phrase ɬawa:k, the name given to a subgroup of the Tlingit tribe. Kotlik – from the Yup'ik phrase qerrulliik, whose English translation is unclear. Kwethluk – from the Yup'ik phrase kuiggluk, meaning "unnatural river". Noorvik – from the Iñupiaq phrase nuurvik, meaning "a place to move to".
Their language is the Tlingit language (Łingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]), [6] Tlingit people today belong to several federally recognized Alaska Native tribes including the Angoon Community Association, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, [7] Chilkat Indian Village, Chilkoot Indian Association, Craig Tribal Association ...
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.
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.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence. Technical Paper Number 325. [This overview of Alaska Native history and culture in the upper Tanana region in eastern interior Alaska focuses on the predominantly Northern Athabascan Indian villages of Dot Lake, Healy Lake, Northway, Tanacross, and Tetlin.]. Only included Upriver ...