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Description:
Top 25 American Indian Tribes for the United States: 1990 and 1980
Source:
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Release date: August 1995
Table 1. Top 25 American Indian Tribes for the
United States: 1990 and 1980
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Release date: August 1995
(Data are based on a sample)
1990 Census
1980 Census
Tribe
Number Percent
Number Percent
All American Indians.....
1,937,391 100.0
1,478,523 100.0
Cherokee......................
369,035 19.0
232,080 15.7
Navajo........................
225,298 11.6
158,633 10.7
Sioux 1.......................
107,321
5.5
78,608 5.3
Chippewa......................
105,988
5.5
73,602 5.0
Choctaw.......................
86,231
4.5
50,220 3.4
Pueblo 2......................
55,330
2.9
42,552 2.9
Apache........................
53,330 2.8
35,861 2.4
Iroquois 3....................
52,557 2.7
38,218 2.6
Lumbee 4......................
50,888 2.6
28,631 1.9
Creek.........................
45,872 2.4
28,278 1.9
Blackfoot 2...................
37,992 2.0
21,964 1.5
Canadian and Latin American... 27,179
1.4
7,804 0.5
Chickasaw.....................
21,522 1.1
10,317 0.7
Tohono O'Odham...............
16,876
0.9
13,297 0.9
Potawatomi....................
16,719
0.9
9,715 0.7
Seminole 2....................
15,564
0.8
10,363 0.7
Pima..........................
15,074
0.8
11,722 0.8
Tlingit.......................
14,417
0.7
9,509 0.6
Alaskan Athabaskans...........
14,198
0.7
10,136 0.7
Cheyenne......................
11,809
0.6
9,918 0.7
Comanche......................
11,437
0.6
9,037 0.6
Paiute 2......................
11,369
0.6
9,523 0.6
Osage.........................
10,430
0.5
6,884 0.5
Puget Sound Salish............
10,384
0.5
6,591 0.4
Yaqui.........................
9,838
0.5
5,197 0.4
Source: Racial Statistics Branch
Population Division
Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC 20233
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