Details, Explanation and Meaning About Classification of Native Americans

Classification of Native Americans Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Table of contents
1 Classification of Native Americans: United States and Canada
2 Classification – Central and South America
3 Languages

Classification of Native Americans: United States and Canada

Ethnographers commonly classify the native peoples of the United States and Canada into ten geographical regions with shared cultural traits. The following list groups peoples by their region of origin, followed by the current location. See the individual article on each tribe for a history of their movements. The regions are:

Arctic

Subarctic

California

  • Achomawi (Pit River Indians)
  • Antoniaño
  • Atsugewi
  • Bear River
  • Cahuilla
  • Campo
  • Chukchansi
  • Chumash (Dialects: Roseño, Purisimeño, Barbareño, Inezeño, Ventureño, Obispeño, Santa Paula, Cruzeño, Emigdiano Allilik)
  • Chilula
  • Chimariko
  • Costanoan (Dialects: Ramaytush, San Jose, Juichen, Chocheño, Tamyen, Awaswas, Chalon, Mutsun, Rumsen)
  • Cupeño
  • Diegueño
  • Esselen
  • Fernandeño: see Tataviam
  • Gabrieliño: see Tongva
  • Giamina
  • Huchnom
  • Hupa
  • Ipai
  • Jamul
  • Juaneño
  • Kamia
  • Karok
  • Kato
  • Kiliwa
  • Kitanemuk
  • Konomihu
  • Konkow
  • Kumeyaay
  • Lassik
  • Luiseño
  • Maidu
  • Mattole
  • Mesa Grande
  • Migueleño
  • Mission Indians
  • Miwok (Me-wuk)
  • Modoc
  • Mohave
  • Monache
  • Nakipa
  • Nisenan
  • Nomlaki
  • Nongatl
  • Ohlone
  • Paipai (Akwa'ala)
  • Patwin
  • Pomo
  • Salinan
  • San Clemente
  • San Nicolas
  • Santa Catalina
  • Serrano
  • Shasta tribe
  • Sinkyone
  • Tache
  • Tachi tribe
  • Tataviam
  • Tipai
  • Tolowa
  • Tongva
  • Tsnungwe
  • Tubatulabal
  • Wailaki
  • Wappo
  • Whilkut
  • Wintun
  • Wiyot
  • Yahi
  • Yana
  • Yocha Dehe
  • Yokuts
  • Yuki
  • Coast Yuki
  • Yurok

Eastern Woodlands

Great Basin

Plateau

Northwest Coast

Plains

  • Aranama
  • Arapaho Wyoming, Oklahoma
  • Arikara (aka Arikaree or Ree) North Dakota
  • Assiniboine Montana [Ft. Peck Indian Reservation: Assiniboine and Lakota (Sioux) ]
  • Atsina
  • Besawunena
  • Blackfeet (Dialects: Blackfoot, Blood, Piegan) Montana
  • Brule
  • Caddo
  • Cheyenne Montana, South Dakota; Oklahoma
  • Chickasaw Oklahoma
  • Comanche Oklahoma
  • Crow (Absaroka or Apsáalooke) Montana, South Dakota
  • Plains Cree Montana
  • Dakota
  • Gros Ventre
  • Hasinai
  • Hidatsa North Dakota
  • Iowa (Ioway) Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma
  • Karankawa Texas
  • Kaw (Kansa) Oklahoma
  • Kiowa Oklahoma
  • Kiowa Apache Oklahoma
  • Kitsai
  • Lakota (Sioux) South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska
  • Lipan
  • Mandan North Dakota
  • Missouri (Missouria) Missouri
  • Nawathinehena
  • Oglala
  • Plains Ojibwe
  • Omaha Nebraska
  • Mississaugas
  • Osage Oklahoma
  • Otoe (Oto) Oklahoma
  • Ottawa Michigan; Oklahoma
  • Pawnee (Dialects: South Band, Skiri) Oklahoma
  • Piegan
  • Ponca Nebraska, Oklahoma
  • Quapaw (Arkansas) Arkansas, Oklahoma
  • Santee
  • Sarsi (Sarcee)
  • Sauk (originally Great Lakes now Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa
  • Siksika
  • Sioux (Lakota, Dakota, Nakota) Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
  • Stoney
  • Tamique
  • Teton
  • Tonkawa Oklahoma
  • Wichita Oklahoma [Affiliated Tribes - Wichita, Waco, Tawakoni, Keechi]
  • Wyandot Ontario, Michigan
  • Yankton
  • Yanktonai

Southeast

  • Adai
  • Ais Florida
  • Akokisa
  • Alabama Alabama
  • Apalachee Florida
  • Atakapa
  • Bidai
  • Biloxi Mississippi
  • Caddo Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
  • Calusa Florida
  • Catawba South Carolina
  • Chatot
  • Chawasha
  • Cherokee North Carolina; later Oklahoma
  • Chiaha
  • Chickahominy Virginia
  • Chickamauga
  • Chickasaw Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, later Oklahoma
  • Chitimacha Louisiana
  • Choctaw Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama; later Oklahoma
  • Creek Alabama; Oklahoma, Georgia
  • Coushatta Louisiana
  • Coharie North Carolina
  • Cusabo
  • Hitchiti
  • Houma Louisiana
  • Iswa
  • Jeaga Florida
  • Koasati
  • Lumbee North Carolina
  • Mattaponi Virginia
  • Meherrin North Carolina
  • Mikasuki Florida
  • Mobile
  • Mocama
  • Monacan Virginia
  • Nansemond Virginia
  • Natchez Mississippi, Louisiana
  • Nottoway
  • Ofo
  • Pamlico (Carolina)
  • Pamunkey Virginia
  • Pee Dee South Carolina, North Carolina
  • Pensacola
  • Rappahannock Virginia
  • Saponi
  • Seminole Florida; Oklahoma
  • Taensa
  • Tawasa
  • Tekesta Florida
  • Timucua (Utina) Florida
  • Topachula Florida
  • Tuskegee
  • Tutelo
  • Tunica Mississippi
  • Waccamaw North Carolina, South Carolina
  • Woccon
  • Yamasee
  • Yuchi

Southwest

Classification – Central and South America

Indians of Central and South America are generally classified by language, environment, and cultural similarities.

Caribbean

Mesoamerica

Andean

Sub-Andean

Western Amazon

  • Tukanoan

Central Amazon

Eastern and Southern Amazon

Southern Cone

  • Araucanian (Mapuche)
  • Puelche
  • Tehuelche
  • Yamana
  • Kaweshkar
  • Selknam

Languages

For a general discussion, see Language families and languages


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