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Most Populous Native American Tribes

Name the Native American tribes who have the most members according to the 2000 U.S. census.
Self-reported data. Not including people who reported mixed race heritage or multiple tribes
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First submittedMay 20, 2015
Times taken12,400
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Population
Homeland
Tribe
281,069
Southeast
Cherokee
269,202
Southwest
Navajo
108,272
Great Plains
Sioux
105,907
Great Lakes
Chippewa
87,349
Southeast
Choctaw
59,533
Southwest
Pueblo
57,060
Southwest
Apache
55,913
North Carolina
Lumbee
Population
Homeland
Tribe
45,919
Alaska
Eskimo / Inuit
45,212
Northeast
Iroquois
40,223
Southeast
Creek
27,104
Great Plains
Blackfeet
20,887
Southeast
Chickasaw
17,466
Southwest
Tohono O'odham
15,817
Great Lakes
Potawatomi
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38 Comments
panscedar
+8
Level 67
May 20, 2015
Do you really still use Eskimo in the United States? Not Inuit?
Jackey52
+2
Level 62
Aug 19, 2015
Most citizens refer to them as inuit or alaskan native, but the census data I found said eskimo. I'll let those be acceptable type-ins
TheWombat
+3
Level 72
Jul 27, 2016
Aren't Eskimos and Inuit different people? I think 'eskimo' is considered offensive in North America, but for no particularly good reason. I could be wrong, but it seems similar to the distinction between Travellers and Gypsies in the UK. Neither is a derogatory term, but members of one group may be offended if they are called by the name of the other group. And either term can be offensive if it's meant by the user to be offensive.
Pachacuti
+3
Level 70
Oct 13, 2016
Eskimo is a broader term that also includes the Inuit as well as the Yupik people of Siberia and Alaska. It has come to be seen as a pejorative, but I'm not entirely sure why.
Borgir
+2
Level 62
Oct 29, 2016
Irish travelers and the Romani people are two very different people. And there are Eskimos in western Alaska that consider themselves as such, whereas they might take offense if referred to as Inuit.
DavidCheater
+2
Level 34
Dec 18, 2017
I heard this from an Alaskan Eskimo who moved to Canada.

The term 'Eskimo' was used by the Canadian government in ways that made the term offensive to Canadian natives. There's a different history in Alaska.

Neodymium
+3
Level 63
Oct 24, 2024
It means "eater of raw meat" and thats why its considered offensive i think
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Oct 10, 2016
This article explains it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo

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gzx5
+5
Level 75
Jun 22, 2016
Technically Eskimos/Inuit are a different race than the other native tribes.
brandybuck96
+13
Level 82
Jul 12, 2016
If one believes that races exist.
CBTemple
+9
Level 83
Dec 25, 2016
Thank you, brandybuck96, for that! The concept of 'races' is a pseudo-scientific fraud that continues to cause more social problems than almost any other concept. I deeply appreciate your comment!
rdiazjry2k
+1
Level 64
Aug 13, 2022
That's because they do.
Difluzi
+3
Level 82
Mar 10, 2024
^ No
redsplat
+8
Level 72
Jul 17, 2016
In Canada we use First Nations to refer to the people who came 10,000+ years ago. Inuit refers to people who only arrived 5000 years ago; they have completely different languages, traditions and ethnicity. We use aboriginal to refer to First Nations, Inuit and Métis (people of mixed heritage). Yes race is a fiction. Culture and ethnicity are not.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Aug 13, 2018
There is also no biological basis for ethnicity. It's a real thing only because ethnicity is merely the labels that people choose to identify with or attach to themselves. I think you probably know this so.. just pointing it out.
MarcellDAvis
+3
Level 80
Feb 22, 2023
Yes and no. There are biological differences between people that correlate with place of origin, obviously. There are just no clear lines between these neat categories called races or ethnicities that humans made up.
Sulps
+2
Level 55
Oct 10, 2016
Nope, they're all Mongoloids. But technically, the Inuit and Amerinds are in different sub-races. The borders between different races and especially sub-races are often quite blurry so I wouldn't waste my time saying exactly who belongs to which sub-race.
strudel
+6
Level 32
Apr 20, 2023
Bro what
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
Oct 24, 2024
bro what
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Jul 11, 2016
i tried so many variations of Chocktaw...except the right one. Dang it
joez
+1
Level 77
Oct 10, 2016
I also included the K, NO CREDIT!
DavidCheater
+1
Level 34
Dec 18, 2017
Same here. I tried several varients.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Oct 10, 2016
Surprised by how many I guessed that aren't on here.

Cherokee myself. Though I wouldn't answer that way on a census.

MCdoesgeography
+1
Level 74
Oct 3, 2023
Nobody asked :)
jackimo14
+2
Level 50
Oct 10, 2016
As an Englishman - this quiz is totally lost on me.. so much stuff about the USA that Jetpunk has to teach me
brainchild
+3
Level 68
Oct 10, 2016
Shouldn't Cree be on there... according to wikipedia there over 200,000 Cree living in Canada. Cool quiz anyway.
Zefyrinus
+1
Level 74
Oct 10, 2016
This is the US only.
csrt2006
+2
Level 55
Oct 10, 2016
Why would Arapaho, Cheyenne, Crow be missing? Were they sub-tribes of main tribes?
okerrigan
+1
Level 67
Dec 13, 2022
All Blackfoot I believe
MyMindWentBlank
+2
Level 60
Oct 10, 2016
I tried a bunch of tribes that I hear about all the time, and all of them have really low populations... I tried Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Hopi, Ute, and Paiute, and none were correct.
HectorVortac
+1
Level 47
Oct 12, 2016
Wow, I only tried Tohono because that's who grew up around and was running out of names. I really didn't expect their population to be that high.
Magarara
+1
Level 53
Oct 13, 2016
I am surprised to read "mongoloid" as we were taught that was an offensive word.
Brianix
+2
Level 34
Oct 19, 2016
Anyone else try mohican?
trebek
+4
Level 68
Oct 21, 2016
The last one died years ago
DavidCheater
+3
Level 34
Jan 1, 2018
I get the joke but the group still exists. There's around 3,000 of them displaced to Wisconsin.
Manila101
+1
Level 32
Jun 2, 2020
Shouldn’t native Indian be more appropriate?
WashingMachine
+7
Level 67
Aug 22, 2020
No, Native Americans are natives of America, not India.
Linen
+1
Level 55
Aug 11, 2020
Back when I used to live in Iowa I remember there was this county called Pottawattamie County, never knew their tribe was so large
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