American Indian and Alaska Native Population by Selected Tribes, Census 2000
Tribe
Population1
Total2
4,119,301
Apache
96,833
Blackfeet
85,750
Cherokee
729,533
Cheyenne
18,204
Chickasaw
38,351
Chippewa
149,669
Choctaw
158,774
Colville
9,393
Comanche
19,376
Cree
7,734
Creek
71,310
Crow
13,394
Delaware
16,341
Houma
8,713
Iroquois
80,822
Kiowa
12,242
Latin American Indian
180,940
Lumbee
57,868
Menominee
9,840
Navajo
298,197
Osage
15,897
Ottawa
10,677
Paiute
13,532
Pima
11,493
Potawatomi
25,595
Pueblo
74,085
Puget Sound Salish
14,631
Seminole
27,431
Shoshone
12,026
Sioux
153,360
Tohono O'odham
20,087
Ute
10,385
Yakama
10,851
Yaqui
22,412
Yuman
8,976
Other specified American Indian tribes
357,658
American Indian tribe, not specified
195,902
Alaska Athabascan
18,838
Aleut
16,978
Eskimo
54,761
Tlingit-Haida
22,365
Other specified Alaska Native tribes
3,973
Alaska Native tribe, not specified
8,702
American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, not specified
1,056,457
1. The numbers by American Indian and Alaska Native tribe do not add up to the total population figure because respondents may have put down more than one tribe. Respondents reporting several tribes are counted several times.
2. Total includes American Indian and Alaska Natives alone or in combination with other tribal groups or races. Indian and Alaskan Native population alone in 2000 was 2,475,956.
