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In the poorest county in America, you can take over the government and the media won't even notice. If the people of Connecticut took over the state capitol, the media would swarm into Hartford and the nation would tune in to watch. Such a move might warrant the intervention of the FBI, the Justice Department and the National Guard. But for almost two months, 100 Indians have been occupying the tribal council headquarters here and the story has barely traveled past the edge of the plains. Despite the fact that a sovereign government is under siege, there has been a virtual news blackout.
Quoted from Salon.com's March 13 2000 web article "Bury the News at Wounded Knee"
Feds are putting major heat on a group of Indians at the Pine Ridge reservation who were attempting to demonstrate against corruption and malfeasance within the heavily fed-infiltrated "official" tribal council there. The FBI is said to have been on the scene "INSTANTLY". In light of the TOTAL media blackout enforced by feds in regard to this situation, there are serious concerns on the part of Native Americans and others of some kind of severe, Waco-style tactics being employed at Pine Ridge.It's crucial to help ensure that eventuality can never come to pass; and to do that, we must get the word out regarding what's going on at Pine Ridge right now.
17 January 2000, Dave Hartley author, newsgroup message, subject "Urgent Indian Standoff at Pineridge"
If A Tree Falls In The Forest...
News is dependent on who defines it
By Jodi Rave, reporter for Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star
http://newswatch.sfsu.edu/columnists/naja/022601rave.html
What's the United Nations' best-kept secret?
It's the International Decade of World's Indigenous Peoples, now half over.
The "decade" — 1995-2004 — was introduced to promote, protect and empower the rights of indigenous peoples while they retain their cultural identities and participate in the economic, political and social realms of life.
Meanwhile, mainstream media coverage of the decade seems nonexistent, marginal at best. Despite good intentions that went into establishing the decade, many indigenous people don't know that a decade exists for their recognition.
While most people depend on the media to explain the world around them, news affecting indigenous people is largely unreported, distorted or relegated to the back page of the newspaper.
Hence, a problem shared around the world. It can have disastrous effects, considering the role the non-indigenous media play in our everyday lives and in shaping public opinion.
Last month, 35 indigenous journalists and other media-related experts from Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, South America and North America concluded a four-day workshop at U.N. headquarters in New York.
The indigenous media workshop group met at the United Nations' request to address the lack of coverage by the mainstream press to suggest ways to create a free and independent indigenous press, to help improve training for indigenous journalists, and to come up with better ways to spread information about U.N. activities relevant to indigenous communities.
Our suggestions will be reported to a working group of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
Those present work at various levels in the media, from providing video training to Zapatistas struggling to regain land ownership, to Web site operators who find a home for community stories in Siberia.
I was the only American reporter to attend the workshop, invited because of my unique job with Lee Enterprises and the Lincoln Journal Star. Of those present, I was the only indigenous person reporting on indigenous issues for a mainstream newspaper. Also, as a NAJA board member, I represented the world's largest and oldest indigenous-aboriginal news organization.
Despite NAJA's 17-year history, we face the same media issues shared by our brothers and sisters in the Saharan Desert, the Arctic Circle, Central American mountains or Torres Strait Islands.
Unfortunately, it was clear that despite the continents that separate us, the world media tend to view us through the same invisible lens.
The U.S. press provided a fine example of this invisibility while we were in New York. I scheduled my flight a day early so I could report on a march for imprisoned Native activist Leonard Peltier.
The event drew people of all colors from across the country, where they gathered to show support for a man they feel was wrongly convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.
Since former President Clinton announced he would consider granting clemency to Peltier, people on both sides of the issue have been waging campaigns concerning Peltier's potential release.
Television and print reporters showed zero to little interest in the largest gathering ever for Peltier, about 3,000 strong in Manhattan. They did, however, find time, money and space to report on more than 300 FBI agents who marched five days later in Washington, D.C. as an opposing voice for clemency.
As I made my way through the crowd of Peltier supporters and noticed the lack of mainstream media, the need for the U.N. indigenous media workshop was unmistakable.
The day after the Sunday march, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee members asked to speak at the indigenous media workshop. There they voiced concerns about the lack of television and print coverage, likening it to a media blackout.
I believe it was something less covert.
The near absence of the non-indigenous media simply reflects a bias. The march did not reflect white ideals of a good news story, nor did it affect anyone's pocketbook.
As I filed the Peltier story from a New York hotel room, I felt thankful for a news beat that empowers me to share good stories about people who tend to be forgotten.
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Intentional blackout or simple oversight? How many Federally Recognized American Indian Nations are there in the US anyway? And yet how many times do the words "American Indian" or the name of a tribal nation cross the lips of a television newscaster? How many times do the words "American Indian" or the name of a tribal nation find print in the daily news?
We're talking distinct entitities as nations with government-to-government relationships with the U.S. And one would scarcely knew they existed if not for the wealth of "shaman" style books in bookstores and the collectibility of American Indian arts and crafts. The "average" American driving down the street still doesn't have a clue who Leonard Peltier is. When they hear the words "ethnic cleansing" they think of Eastern European countries, not American Indian nations.
If suppression has to do with pocketbook-power then it could be hazarded that the pocketbook-power involved is a fear of 500 plus American Indian nations residing within the "borders" of the United States and the determination to render them as powerless as possible and pretending they are of little consequence. How better to do that than to throw a cloak of invisibility over them, focusing media eyes on suppressions and ethnic cleansings outside the U.S. (at least those that it suits the government and Wall Street to recognize) while maintaining the illusion that America is 50 homogeneous states and nothing but--except may be a few Indian Nations (just a couple) existing in some Twilight Zone generally known as a slightly irritating hinderance to Manifest Destiny. If Indian Affairs had an entry in the dictionary, that is probably how they'd be defined, "Slight irritating hinderance to Manifest Destiny". It's a Twilight Zone which has been negotiated to not be afforded the
protection of International Law given colonized peoples as they don't fit
exactly what the UN defines as a colony:
1. foreign domination,
2. the presence of a political/territorial entity in the colony;
3. geographical separation from the colonizing power.
They are not geographically separated.
The White House and halls of the U.S. Congress could be sitting on Mars and Indian Nations still wouldn't be "geographically separated".
There are THIS many Indian Nations in the 48 contiguous states of the US and Alaska (Hawaii doesn't count) which are not "geographically separated":
- Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
- Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian
Reservation, California
- Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona
- Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas
- Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma
- Alturas Indian Rancheria, California
- Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
- Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of Maine
- Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation,
Montana
- Augustine Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Augustine
Reservation, California
- Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the
- Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin
- Bay Mills Indian Community of the Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa
Indians, Bay Mills Reservation, Michigan
- Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, California
- Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California
- Big Lagoon Rancheria, California
- Big Pine Band of Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Indians of the Big Pine
Reservation, California
- Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of California
- Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians of the Big Valley Rancheria, California
- Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
- Blue Lake Rancheria, California
- Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony of California
- Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California
- Burns Paiute Tribe of the Burns Paiute Indian Colony of Oregon
- Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Cabazon Reservation,
California
- Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of
the Colusa Rancheria, California
- Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
- Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians of the Cahuilla Reservation,
California
- Cahto Indian Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria, California
- Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation,
California
- Capitan Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California:
- Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona
Reservation, California
- Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of
the Viejas Reservation, California
- Catawba Indian Nation (aka Catawba Tribe of South Carolina)
- Cayuga Nation of New York
- Cedarville Rancheria, California
- Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation, California
- Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, California
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
- Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South
Dakota
- Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma
- Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California
- Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana
- Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
- Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma
- Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Cocopah Tribe of Arizona
- Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D'Alene Reservation, Idaho
- Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California
- Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation,
Arizona and California
- Comanche Indian Tribe, Oklahoma
- Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation,
Montana
- Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, Washington
- Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Washington
- Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of
Oregon
- Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Nevada and Utah
- Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
- Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, Oregon
- Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
- Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation of the Yakama
Reservation, Washington
- Coquille Tribe of Oregon
- Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California
- Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
- Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon
- Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California
- Crow Tribe of Montana
- Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota
- Cuyapaipe Community of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Cuyapaipe
Reservation, California
- Death Valley Timbi-Sha Shoshone Band of California
- Delaware Nation, Oklahoma (formerly Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma)
- Delaware Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma
- Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation, Nevada
- Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
- Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
- Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria,
California
- Elk Valley Rancheria, California
- Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevada
- Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California
- Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
- Forest County Potawatomi Community of Wisconsin Potawatomi Indians,
Wisconsin
- Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of
Montana
- Fort Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort Bidwell Reservation of
California
- Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort
Independence Reservation, California
- Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian
Reservation, Nevada and Oregon
- Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community of the Fort McDowell Indian
Reservation, Arizona
- Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California & Nevada
- Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
- Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation,
Arizona
- Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians of Michigan
- Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California
- Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California
- Guidiville Rancheria of California
- Hannahville Indian Community of Wisconsin Potawatomie Indians of
Michigan
- Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation, Arizona
- Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin (formerly known as the Wisconsin Winnebago
Tribe)
- Hoh Indian Tribe of the Hoh Indian Reservation, Washington
- Hoopa Valley Tribe, California
- Hopi Tribe of Arizona
- Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria, California
- Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine
- Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona
- Huron Potawatomi, Inc., Michigan
- Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit
Reservation, California
- Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California
- Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
- Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
- Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California
- Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington
- Jamul Indian Village of California
- Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Louisiana
- Jicarilla Apache Tribe of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, New
Mexico
- Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona
- Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation, Washington
- Karuk Tribe of California
- Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria, California
- Kaw Nation, Oklahoma
- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of L'Anse and Ontonagon Bands of Chippewa
Indians of the L'Anse Reservation, Michigan
- Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma
- Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas
- Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
- Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas
- Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
- Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon
- Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
- La Jolla Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the La Jolla Reservation,
California
- La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian
Reservation, California
- Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac
Courte Oreilles Reservation of Wisconsin
- Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du
Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin
- Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan
- Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony,
Nevada
- Little River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan
- Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians of Michigan
- Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Los Coyotes
Reservation, California
- Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada
- Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota
- Lower Elwha Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha Reservation, Washington
- Lower Sioux Indian Community of Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians of
the Lower Sioux Reservation in Minnesota
- Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, Washington
- Lytton Rancheria of California
- Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, Washington
- Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester-Point Arena
Rancheria, California
- Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita
Reservation, California
- Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of Connecticut
- Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
- Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria, California
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
- Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande
Reservation, California
- Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico
- Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
- Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
- Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota - Six component reservations:
- Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake);
- Fond du Lac Band;
- Grand Portage Band;
- Leech Lake Band;
- Mille Lacs Band;
- White Earth Band
- Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi
- Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Nevada
- Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma
- Mohegan Indian Tribe of Connecticut
- Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California
- Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Morongo Reservation,
California
- Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington
- Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma
- Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island
- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
- Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho
- Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington
- Nooksack Indian Tribe of Washington
- Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation,
Montana
- Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California
- Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation of Utah (Washakie)
- Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
- Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
- Oneida Nation of New York
- Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin
- Onondaga Nation of New York
- Osage Tribe, Oklahoma
- Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma
- Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma
- Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
- Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony,
California
- Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada
- Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Lone Pine Community of the Lone Pine
Reservation, California
- Pala Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pala Reservation,
California
- Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona
- Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California
- Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine
- Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation,
California
- Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
- Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation,
California
- Penobscot Tribe of Maine
- Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
- Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California
- Pinoleville Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Pit River Tribe, California
- Big Bend,
- Lookout,
- Montgomery
- Creek & Roaring Creek Rancherias
- XL Ranch
- Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama
- Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan
- Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
- Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
- Port Gamble Indian Community of the Port Gamble Reservation, Washington
- Potter Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians, Kansas
- Prairie Island Indian Community of Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians
of the Prairie Island Reservation, Minnesota
- Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico
- Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico
- Pueblo of San Juan, New Mexico
- Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico
- Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico
- Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, Washington
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada
- Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma
- Quartz Valley Indian Community of the Quartz Valley Reservation of
California
- Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California & Arizona
- Quileute Tribe of the Quileute Reservation, Washington
- Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, Washington
- Ramona Band or Village of Cahuilla Mission Indians of California
- Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
- Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians of the Red Lake Reservation,
Minnesota
- Redding Rancheria, California
- Redwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Nevada
- Resighini Rancheria, California (formerly known as the Coast Indian
Community of Yurok Indians of the Resighini Rancheria)
- Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Rincon Reservation,
California
- Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota
- Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, California
(formerly known as the Covelo Indian Community)
- Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California
- Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
- Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska
- Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma
- Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, Isabella Reservation
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona
- Samish Indian Tribe, Washington
- San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona
- San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona
- San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San Manual
Reservation, California
- San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California
- Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California
- Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Santa Rosa
Reservation, California
- Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez
Reservation, California
- Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel
Reservation, California
- Santee Sioux Tribe of the Santee Reservation of Nebraska
- Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe of Washington
- Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan
- Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California
- Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
- Seminole Tribe of Florida
- Dania Reservations,
- Big Cypress Reservations,
- Brighton Reservations,
- Hollywood Reservations,
- Tampa Reservations
- Seneca Nation of New York
- Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma
- Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota (Prior Lake)
- Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California
- Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria
(Verona Tract), California
- Shoalwater Bay Tribe of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation,
Washington
- Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho
- Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South
Dakota
- Skokomish Indian Tribe of the Skokomish Reservation, Washington
- Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah
- Smith River Rancheria, California
- Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington
- Soboba Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Soboba Reservation,
California
- Sokaogon Chippewa Community of the Mole Lake Band of Chippewa Indians,
Wisconsin
- Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado
- Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota (formerly known as the Devils Lake
Sioux Tribe)
- Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation, Washington
- Squaxin Island Tribe of the Squaxin Island Reservation, Washington
- St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, St. Croix Reservation
- St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota
- Stockbridge-Munsee Community of Mohican Indians of Wisconsin
- Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington
- Summit Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada
- Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation, Washington
- Susanville Indian Rancheria, California
- Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation, Washington
- Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California
- Table Bluff Reservation--Wiyot Tribe, California
- Table Mountain Rancheria of California
- Te-Moak Tribes of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada - Four constituent
bands:
- Battle Mountain Band;
- Elko Band;
- South Fork Band;
- Wells Band
- Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona
- Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York
- Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
- Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona
- Torres-Martinez Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of California
- Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California
- Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Reservation, Washington
- Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana
- Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California
- Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
- Tuscarora Nation of New York
- Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of California
- United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California
- United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma
- Upper Lake Band of Pomo Indians of Upper Lake Rancheria of California
- Upper Sioux Indian Community of the Upper Sioux Reservation, Minnesota
- Upper Skagit Indian Tribe of Washington
- Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah
- Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New
Mexico & Utah
- Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation,
California
- Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker River Reservation, Nevada
- Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts
- Washoe Tribe of Nevada & California
- Carson Colony,
- Dresslerville Colony,
- Woodfords Community,
- Stewart Community,
- Washoe Ranches
- White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona
- Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, Oklahoma
- Wichita,
- Keechi,
- Waco,
- Tawakonie
- Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
- Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada
- Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma
- Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
- Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona
- Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona
- Yerington Paiute Tribe of the Yerington Colony & Campbell Ranch, Nevada
- Yomba Shoshone Tribe of the Yomba Reservation, Nevada
- Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas
- Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California
- Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico
There are this many in Alaska.
- Village of Afognak
- Native Village of Akhiok
- Akiachak Native Community
- Akiak Native Community
- Native Village of Akutan
- Village of Alakanuk
- Alatna Village
- Native Village of Aleknagik
- Algaaciq Native Village (St. Mary's)
- Allakaket Village
- Native Village of Ambler
- Village of Anaktuvuk Pass
- Yupiit of Andreafski
- Angoon Community Association
- Village of Aniak
- Anvik Village
- Native Village of Atka
- Asa'carsarmiut Tribe (formerly Native Village of Mountain Village)
- Atqasuk Village (Atkasook)
- Village of Atmautluak
- Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government (formerly
Native Village of Barrow)
- Beaver Village
- Native Village of Belkofski
- Village of Bill Moore's Slough
- Birch Creek Tribe (formerly listed as Birch Creek Village)
- Native Village of Brevig Mission
- Native Village of Buckland
- Native Village of Cantwell
- Native Village of Chanega (aka Chenega)
- Chalkyitsik Village
- Village of Chefornak
- Chevak Native Village
- Chickaloon Native Village
- Native Village of Chignik
- Native Village of Chignik Lagoon
- Chignik Lake Village
- Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan)
- Chilkoot Indian Association (Haines)
- Chinik Eskimo Community (Golovin)
- Native Village of Chistochina
- Native Village of Chitina
- Native Village of Chuathbaluk (Russian Mission, Kuskokwim)
- Chuloonawick Native Village
- Circle Native Community
- Village of Clark's Point
- Native Village of Council
- Craig Community Association
- Village of Crooked Creek
- Curyung Tribal Council (formerly Native Village of Dillingham)
- Native Village of Deering
- Native Village of Diomede (aka Inalik)
- Village of Dot Lake
- Douglas Indian Association
- Native Village of Eagle
- Native Village of Eek
- Egegik Village
- Eklutna Native Village
- Native Village of Ekuk
- Ekwok Village
- Native Village of Elim
- Emmonak Village
- Evansville Village (aka Bettles Field)
- Native Village of Eyak (Cordova)
- Native Village of False Pass
- Native Village of Fort Yukon
- Native Village of Gakona
- Galena Village (aka Louden Village)
- Native Village of Gambell
- Native Village of Georgetown
- Native Village of Goodnews Bay
- Organized Village of Grayling (aka Holikachuk)
- Gulkana Village
- Native Village of Hamilton
- Healy Lake Village
- Holy Cross Village
- Hoonah Indian Association
- Native Village of Hooper Bay
- Hughes Village
- Huslia Village
- Hydaburg Cooperative Association
- Igiugig Village
- Village of Iliamna
- Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope
- Iqurmuit Traditional Council (formerly Native Village of Russian
Mission)
- Ivanoff Bay Village
- Kaguyak Village
- Organized Village of Kake
- Kaktovik Village (aka Barter Island)
- Village of Kalskag
- Village of Kaltag
- Native Village of Kanatak
- Native Village of Karluk
- Organized Village of Kasaan
- Native Village of Kasigluk
- Kenaitze Indian Tribe
- Ketchikan Indian Corporation
- Native Village of Kiana
- Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove
- King Island Native Community
- Native Village of Kipnuk
- Native Village of Kivalina
- Klawock Cooperative Association
- Native Village of Kluti Kaah (aka Copper Center)
- Knik Tribe
- Native Village of Kobuk
- Kokhanok Village
- New Koliganek Village Council (formerly Koliganek Village)
- Native Village of Kongiganak
- Village of Kotlik
- Native Village of Kotzebue
- Native Village of Koyuk
- Koyukuk Native Village
- Organized Village of Kwethluk
- Native Village of Kwigillingok
- Native Village of Kwinhagak (aka Quinhagak)
- Native Village of Larsen Bay
- Levelock Village
- Lesnoi Village (aka Woody Island)
- Lime Village
- Village of Lower Kalskag
- Manley Hot Springs Village
- Manokotak Village
- Native Village of Marshall (aka Fortuna Ledge)
- Native Village of Mary's Igloo
- McGrath Native Village
- Native Village of Mekoryuk
- Mentasta Traditional Council (formerly Mentasta Lake Village)
- Metlakatla Indian Community, Annette Island Reserve
- Native Village of Minto
- Naknek Native Village
- Native Village of Nanwalek (aka English Bay)
- Native Village of Napaimute
- Village of Napakiak
- Native Village of Napaskiak
- Native Village of Nelson Lagoon
- Native Association
- New Stuyahok Village
- Newhalen Village
- Newtok Village
- Native Village of Nightmute
- Nikolai Village
- Native Village of Nikolski
- Ninilchik Village
- Native Village of Noatak
- Nome Eskimo Community
- Nondalton Village
- Noorvik Native Community
- Northway Village
- Native Village of Nuiqsut (aka Nooiksut)
- Nulato Village
- Nunakauyarmiut Tribe (formerly Native Village of Toksook Bay)
- Native Village of Nunapitchuk
- Village of Ohogamiut
- Village of Old Harbor
- Orutsararmuit Native Village (aka Bethel)
- Oscarville Traditional Village
- Native Village of Ouzinkie
- Native Village of Paimiut
- Pauloff Harbor Village
- Pedro Bay Village
- Native Village of Perryville
- Petersburg Indian Association
- Native Village of Pilot Point
- Pilot Station Traditional Village
- Native Village of Pitka's Point
- Platinum Traditional Village
- Native Village of Point Hope
- Native Village of Point Lay
- Native Village of Port Graham
- Native Village of Port Heiden
- Native Village of Port Lions
- Portage Creek Village (aka Ohgsenakale)
- Pribilof Islands Aleut Communities of
- St. Paul Island
- St. George Island
- Qagan Tayagungin Tribe of Sand Point Village
- Rampart Village
- Village of Red Devil
- Native Village of Ruby
- Village of Salamatoff
- Organized Village of Saxman
- Native Village of Savoonga
- Native Village of Saint Michael
- Native Village of Scammon Bay
- Native Village of Selawik
- Seldovia Village Tribe
- Shageluk Nativeive Village
- Native Village of Shaktoolik
- Native Village of Sheldon's Point
- Native Village of Shishmaref
- Native Village of Shungnak
- Sitka Tribe of Alaska
- Skagway Village
- Village of Sleetmute
- Village of Solomon
- South Naknek Village
- Stebbins Community Association
- Native Village of Stevens
- Village of Stony River
- Takotna Village
- Native Village of Tanacross
- Native Village of Tanana
- Native Village of Tatitlek
- Native Village of Tazlina
- Telida Village
- Native Village of Teller
- Native Village of Tetlin
- Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes
- Traditional Village of Togiak
- Tuluksak Native Community
- Native Village of Tuntutuliak
- Native Village of Tununak
- Twin Hills Village
- Native Village of Tyonek
- Ugashik Village
- Umkumiute Native Village
- Native Village of Unalakleet
- Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska
- Native Village of Unga
- Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government
- Arctic Village
- Village of Venetie
- Village of Wainwright
- Native Village of Wales
- Native Village of White Mountain
- Wrangell Cooperative Association
- Yakutat Tlingit Tribe
That's a lot of American Indian Nations, each having goverment-to-government relations with the U.S. Presents a pretty complex picture. Much more complex than the occasional mascot or gambling casino story that finds its way into the news.
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