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Appendix III:
The American Indian Nations of North America
Here are listed 300 and more tribes and sub-tribes, and their primary area of settlement. Some of the tribes are long gone, their existence only remembered in place names and consumer goods.
Abitbi (Sub-Arctic)
Abnaki (Eastern Woodlands)
Accohannock (East Coast)
Achomawi/Atsugewi (Northwest Plateau)
Alabama (Southeast)
Aleut (Alaska)
Alsea (Northwest Coast)
Apache (Southwest)
Arapaho (Great Plains)
Arikara (Great Plains)
Assiniboin (Great Plains)
Atakapa (Southeast)
Atsina (Great Plains)
Attiwandaronk (Eastern Woodlands)
Bannock (Great Basin)
Beaver (Sub-Arctic)
Bella Coola (Northwest Coast)
Biloxi (Southeast)
Blackfoot (Great Plains)
Caddo (Great Plains)
Cahuilla (California)
Calusa (Southeast)
Caribou (Sub-Arctic)
Carrier (Sub-Arctic)
Catawba (Southeast)
Cayuse (Northwest Plateau)
Chemehuevi (Great Basin)
Cherokee (Southeast)
Cheyenne (Great Plains)
Chickasaw (Southeast)
Chicora (Southeast)
Chilcotin (Northwest Plateau)
Chinook (Northwest Coast)
Chipewyan (Sub-Arctic)
Chitimacha (Southeast)
Choctaw (Southeast)
Chumash (California)
Coahuiltec (Southwest)
Cocopa (Sou
thwest)
Coeur d’Alene (Northwest Plateau)
Coharie (Eastern Woodlands/Southeast)
Comanche (Great Plains)
Conoy (East Coast)
Coos (Northwest Coast)
Costanoa (California)
Cowlitz (Northwest Coast)
Cree (Sub-Arctic)
Creek (Southeast)
Crow (Great Plains)
Delaware (East Coast)
Dieguno (California)
Dogrib (Sub-Arctic)
Edisto (Southeast)
Erie (Eastern Woodland/Great Lakes)
Eskimo (Sub-Arctic/Arctic Circle)
Esselen (California)
Eyak (Northwest Coast)
Flathead (Northwest Plateau)
Fox (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Gabrielino (California)
Gitskan (Northwest Coast)
Goshute (Great Basin)
Gros Ventres of the Prairie (Great Plains)
Gros Ventres of the River (Great Plains)
Haida (Northwest Coast)
Haisla (Northwest Coast)
Halchidhoma (Southwest)
Han (Sub-Arctic)
Heiltsuk (Northwest Coast)
Hohokam (Southwest)
Hopi (Southwest)
Houma (Southeast)
Hupa (California)
Huron (Eastern Woodland/Great Lakes)
Illinois (Eastern Woodlands)
Ingalik (Alaska)
Inupiaq (Alaska)
Iowa (Great Plains)
Iroquois (including Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Jemez (Southwest)
Kalapuya (Northwest Coast)
Kalispel (Northwest Plateau)
Kansa (Great Plains)
Karankawa (Great Plains)
Karok (California)
Kaw (Great Plains)
Keres (Southwest)
Kickapoo (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Kiowa (Great Plains)
Kiowa-Apache (Great Plains)
Klamath (Northwest Plateau)
Klikitat (Northwest Plateau)
Koyukon (Alaska)
Kutchin (Sub-Arctic)
Kutenai (Northwest Plateau)
Kwakiutl (Northwest Coast)
Lillooet (Northwest Plateau)
Lipan (Great Plains)
Luiseno (California)
Mohegan (East Coast)
Mahican (East Coast)
Maidu (California)
Makah (Northwest Coast)
Malisit (East Coast)
Mandan (Great Plains)
Maricopa (Southwest)
Mascouten (East Coast)
Massachuset (East Coast)
Mattabesic (East Coast)
Menomini (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Metoac (East Coast)
Miami (Eastern Woodlands)
Micmac (East Coast)
Minga (Eastern Woodlands)
Missouri (Great Plains)
Miwok (California)
Modoc (Great Plains)
Mojave (Southwest)
Mono (California)
Montagnais (Sub-Arctic)
Mountain (Sub-Arctic)
Nansemond (Southeast)
Narragansett (East Coast)
Naskapi (Sub-Arctic)
Natchez (Southeast)
Navajo (Southwest)
Nespelem (Northwest Plateau)
Netsilik (Arctic Circle)
Nez Perce (Great Plains)
Notka (Northwest Coast)
Ojibwa (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Okanagan (Northwest Plateau)
Omaha (Great Plains)
Osage (Great Plains)
Oto (Great Plains)
Ottawa (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Paiute (Great Basin)
Palus (Northwest Plateau)
Pamlico (East Coast)
Pamunkey (Southeast)
Papago (Southwest)
Patwin (California)
Pawnee (Great Plains)
Pennacook (East Coast)
Penobscot (East Coast)
Pequot (East Coast)
Pericu (California)
Pima (Southwest/Mexico)
Plains Cree (Great Plains)
Plains Objiwa (Great Plains)
Pomo (California)
Ponca (Great Plains)
Potawatomi (Eastern Woodlands)
Powahatan (East Coast)
Quapaw (Southeast)
Quileute (Northwest Coast)
Quinault (Northwest Coast)
Salinan (California)
Salish (Northwest Coast)
Santee Sioux (East Coast/Great Plains)
Sarsi (Great Plains)
Sauk (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Secotan (Eastern Woodlands)
Sekani (Sub-Arctic)
Seminole (Southeast)
Seri (Southwest)
Serrano (California)
Shasta (California)
Shawnee (Eastern Woodlands/Great Plains)
Shoshoni (Great Basin)
Shuswap (Northwest Plateau)
Skidi (Great Plains)
Slave (Sub-Arctic)
Sobaipuri (Southwest)
Spokan (Southwest)
Susquehanna (Eastern Woodlands)
Sutaio (Great Plains)
Taensa (Southeast)
Tagish (Sub-Arctic)
Tahltan (Sub-Arctic)
Tanaina (Alaska)
Tanoan Pueblos (Southwest)
Tekesta (Southeast)
Teton Sioux (Great Plains)
Thompson (Northwest Plateau)
Timucua (Southeast)
Tionontati (Eastern Woodlands)
Tlingit (Northwest Coast)
Tobacco (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Tolowa (Northwest Coast)
Tonkawa (Great Plains)
Tsetsaut (Sub-Arctic)
Tsimshian (Northwest Coast)
Tubatulabal (California)
Tunica (Southeast)
Tuscarora (East Coast)
Tutchone (Sub-Arctic)
Tutelo (Eastern Woodlands)
Umatilla (Northwest Plateau)
Ute (Great Basin)
Walapai (Southwest)
Wampanoag (Eastern Woodlands)
Wappinger (Eastern Woodlands)
Washo (Great Basin)
Wenro (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Wind River Shoshoni (Great Basin)
Winnebago (Eastern Woodlands/Great Lakes)
Wintun (California)
Wishram (Northwest Plateau)
Witchita (Great Plains)
Wiyot (California)
Yakima (Northwest Plateau)
Yakutat (Northwest Coast)
Yana (California)
Yankton Sioux (Eastern Woodlands/Great Plains)
Yaqui (Southwest/Mexico)
Yavapai (Southwest)
Yellowknife (Sub-Arctic)
Yokuts (California)
Yuchi (Southeast)
Yuma (Southwest)
Yurok (California)
Zuni (Southwest)
Index
Abbott, Teddy Blue 173, 177, 180, 190–1, 224
Abilene 155, 156–8, 173–4
Adair, John and Cornelia 203–4
Adams, Andy 161, 163, 167–70, 195, 252–4
Adobe Walls 350, 411, 412
Alamo 67–72, 520
alcohol 175
Allison, Clay 271
American Civil War 152, 251, 281, 317, 343–4, 347, 365, 521
American Fur Company 53, 58
American War of Independence 24–8
Anderson, Gilbert M. (aka Max Aranson) 505
Apache 345–8, 350–2, 431–49, 460, 527
Apache Kid 276, 460
Apache Pass 347–8, 522
Arapaho 360, 361, 363, 375
Arikara 56
Ashley, General H. 55, 56
Astor
, John Jacob 53, 54, 57–8, 520
Astoria 53, 54
Austin, Moses 62
Austin, Stephen F. 62–3, 64, 66, 150, 313, 519
Autry, Gene 506–7
Averill, Jim 237–8
Baca, Elfego xiv, 298–9
Bailey, George 378–9
Bannock 86, 429–30
barbed wire 204
Bass, Sam 315–16
Batts, Thomas 10
Bean, Judge Roy 260–1
Bear Flag Revolt 112–13, 521
beaver 50–2, 58
Becknell, William 59–60
Beckwourth, James P. 55, 57
Beecher Island 390
Beef Bonanza 152–70; 196–205, 226, 525
Bent, Charles and William 60
Benteen, Captain Frederick 424, 426–7
Big Foot 453–4, 455
Billy the Kid see Bonney, William H.
Bisbee 267, 527
Black Americans
cowboys 177, 188
farmers 467
gold miners 117–18
outlaws 274–6
soldiers 274–5, 452, 456
Black Bart see Bole, Charles
Black Hills of Dakota xiii, 126, 415, 419–20
Black Kettle 362, 363, 364, 389, 403, 404
Blackfeet 41–2, 52, 57, 58, 341, 383
“The Blessing Way” 4, 349–50
Bole, Charles 138, 269, 278–9
Bonney, William H. (Billy the Kid) 207–21, 524
Boone, Daniel 21–2, 23, 27, 33, 517
Boonesborough 22, 26–7
Boot Hill 174
boots and spurs 192
Bosque Redondo 349
Bowie, Jim 67, 69, 70, 71, 72
Bozeman Trail 366, 368, 380
Brannan, Sam 113, 116
Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea) 26
Bridger, Jim 55, 58, 59, 80–1, 108, 369, 519
Brisbin, James S. 197, 524
Britain
colonialism 7–9
and the War of Independence 24–8
broncbusting 185–6
Brown, Henry Newton 297
Buck, Rufus 277–8
buffalo 382–4
Buffalo Bill see Cody, William F.
Buffum, Edward 266
bunkhouses 186–7
“Buntline Special” 312
Burrows, Rube and Jim 319
Butch Cassidy see Parker, Robert LeRoy
Butterfield, John 135
Calamity Jane see Canarray, Martha
California 115, 521
California Gold Rush 113–18
Canarray, Martha (Calamity Jane) 332
Candy Ponting, Tom 150–1
Canton, Frank 237, 238, 242
Carpenter, Julia Gage 468–70
Carrington, Colonel Henry 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 373, 375, 378, 379
Carson, Kit 58, 59, 80, 228, 349, 350, 522
Cartier, Jacques 6, 50–1, 514
