Region |
Language |
Culture |
Location |
Keywords/synonyms/peoples' names/place names |
Arctic |
Chukotko-Kamchatkan |
Chukchi |
Siberia |
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Koryak |
Siberia |
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Eskimo-Aleut |
Aleut |
Alaska |
Aleutian regions; Unimak Island; Izambek Lagoon (prehistoric period) |
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Inuit-Inupiaq |
Greenland; Alaska; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Nunavik; Quebec; Labrador |
Greenland; Inglefield Bay; Nordost Bay; Suckertoppen; Holsteinsborg; Egedesminde; Ipernivik; Greenlanders; Greenland Inuit; Littleton Island; Avaersuaq; Angmagssalik; Thule (prehistoric Inuit); Paleo-Eskimo; Peary Land; McGary Islands; Aivilingmiut; Chesterfield Inlet; Wager Bay; Alaskan Cultures; American Paleo Arctic people in the Choris Peninsula; Aqviqtiuk Inuit; Kane Basin; Arctic coast cultures; Arctic Inuit; Arctic Thule; Northern Alaska; Mackenzie Delta; Franklin Bay; Coronation Gulf; Avvagmiut; Inuvialuit; Baffin Inuit; Baffin Island Inuit; Hudson Bay Inuit; Qikiqtarjuaq Inuit; Baffinland Inuit; Barrow Inupiat; Belcher Island Inuit; Birnirk culture; Broughton Island Inuit; Canadian Inuit; Cape Halkett Inupiat; Cape York Inuit; Caribou Inuit; Eskimo Point Inuit; Central Inuit; Iglulik Inuit; Copper Inuit; Netsilik Inuit; Cumberland Sound; Starnes Fiord Inuit; Nunavik; Payne Bay; Koksoak River; Labrador Inuit; Hopedale Inuit; Clyde Inuit; Clyde River Inuit; Coastal Inuit; Ungava Bay; Dorset cultures; Dorset Inuit; Equimaux; Eskimo; Eskimo Point Inuit; Arviat; Grise Fiord; Southampton Island; Hudson Strait Inuit; Hudson's Bay Inuit; Melville Peninsula; Iglulingmiut; Foxe Basin; Inland Inuit; Inugsuk culture; Keewatin Inuit; Arctic Bay Inuit; Cape Belcher Inuit; Cape Parry Inuit; Victoria Island Inuit; Thule (neo-inuit, pre-inuit); Tununeremiut Inuit; Netchillirmiut; Nuvorugmiut Inuit; Cape Krusenstern Inuit; Cape Prince of Wales; Hudson Strait Inuit; Nachvak Inuit; Devon Island Inuit; Makkovik Inuit; Lake Melville; Quebec Inuit; Wainwright Inupiat; Cape Halkett Inupiat; Nuiqsut Inupiat; Point Hope Inupiat; Kotzebue Sound Inupiat; Point Barrow Inupiat; Point Lay Inupiat; Bering Strait Inupiat; Barrow Inupiat; Alaska Inupiat; Bethel Inupiat; Aniaki Inupiat; Nulato Inupiat; Shunnuk Inupiat; Cape Halkett Inupiat; Kaktovik Inupiat; Anaktuvik Pass Inupiat; Mackenzie Delta Inuvialuit; Avvagmiut Inuvialuit; Kigirktarugmiut Inuvialuit; Nuvorugmiut Inuvialuit; Richards Island Inuvialuit; Aklavik Inuvialuit; Kugaluk Inuvialuit; Herschel Island Inuvialuit; Hula-hula River Inuvialuit; Cape Bathurst Inuvialuit; Langton Bay Inuvialuit; Kanigmiut Inupiat; Eschscholtz Bay Inupiat; Kigirktarugmiut Inuvialuit; King Islanders; Kittegaryumiut Inuvialuit; Mackenzie Inuit; Mackenzie Inuvialuit; Neo-Eskimo; Nome; Norton Culture of North Alaska (prehistoric period); Nugumiut; Frobisher Bay; Old Bering Sea Okvik Neo Eskimo; Pacific Inuit of Ocean Bay (prehistoric period); Paleo Arctic People in the Choris Peninsula; Koyuk Inlet; Egavik; Inglutalik River; Polar Inuit; Precontact Mackenzie culture; Pre-Dorset; Sarqaq; Utkuhikhalingmiut; Western Inuit; cultures from Horton River |
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Yupik |
Siberia; Alaska |
Alaska Yupik; Bering Sea cultures; Bering Sea–Okvik Neo-Eskimo; Bering Strait Yupik; St. Lawrence Island Yupik; Central River Yupik; Chugach Yupik; Diomede Islands; Kuskowagamiut Yupik; Naknek; Nunivak Island Yupik; Siberian Yupik; Unalit; Yukon Delta Yupik; Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Yupik; Indian Point Yupik; Kasigluk Yupik; Nunapitchuk Yupik; Alutiiq; Sugpiaq |
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Uralic |
Samoyedic |
Russia |
Siberia Nganasan; Nentsy |
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Arctic cultures; Arctic Peoples; Peoples of the Arctic; Arctic coast cultures; Native Americans of Alaska |
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California |
Cultures from California |
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Great Basin |
Uto-Aztecan |
Hopi |
Arizona |
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Shoshone |
Wyoming; Utah; Nevada; Idaho |
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Cultures from Great Basin |
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Northeast |
Algonquian |
Abenaki |
Quebec; Maine |
Eastern Abenaki; Western Abenaki; Penobscot; Maine Penobscot |
Delaware |
Pennsylvania; New Jersey; New York; Delaware |
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Maliseet-Passamaquoddy |
New Brunswick; Maine |
Malecite-Passamaquoddy; Malecite; Maliseet; Passamaquoddy; New Brunswick Malecite |
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Micmac |
Nova Scotia; New Brunswick; Quebec; Newfoundland |
Mi'kmaq; Conne River Micmac; New Brunswick Micmac; Newfoundland Micmac; Richibucto Micmac; Nova Scotia Micmac |
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Ojibwa-Algonquin |
Quebec; Ontario; Michigan; Minnesota; Wisconsin |
Amikwa; Anishinabeg; Anishinabek; Anishinaabeg; Ojibway; Ojibwe; Chippewa; Credit River Ojibwa; Grand Rapids; Lake Ontario Ojibwa; Michigan Anishnabeg; Mississauga; Temagami band; Michigan Ojibway; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Red River Ojibwa; Round Lake Ojibwa; Algonquin; Algonkin |
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Powhatan |
Virginia |
Rappahannock; Virginia Rappahannock |
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Shawnee |
Ohio |
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Wampanoag |
Massachusetts |
Massachusetts Wampanoag |
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Algonquian cultures of the Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley, and Great Lakes; Coastal Algonkians; US east coast cultures |
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Iroquoian |
Cayuga |
Ontario |
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Cherokee |
North Carolina |
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Huron |
Ontario; Quebec |
Hurons; Wyandot |
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Laurentians |
Quebec; Ontario; New York |
Saint Lawrence Iroquois |
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Mohawk |
Ontario; Quebec; New York |
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Onondaga |
Ontario; New York |
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Seneca |
Ontario; New York |
Cornplanter Seneca |
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Susquehannock |
Pennsylvania |
Andaste |
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Iroquian cultures of the Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley, and Great Lakes; Iroquois; Owasco (an ancestor to the Iroquois) |
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Siouan |
Winnebago |
Wisconsin |
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Atlantic coast cultures; East Coast Native Americans; Ontatio First Nations |
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Northwest Coast |
Chimakuan |
Quileute |
Washington |
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Chinookan |
Chinook |
Oregon; Washington |
Chinookan; Chinookans; Lower Columbia River Chinookan; Oregon Chinookan; Washington State Chinookan |
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Eyak-Athabaskan |
Eyak |
Alaska |
Alaska Copper River Delta Eyak; Alaska Eyak |
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Salishan |
Bella Coola |
British Columbia |
Nuxalk; Indigenous People of Kimsquit |
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Central Salish |
British Columbia; Washington |
Gulf of Georgia Salish; Coast Salish; Straits Salish; Northern Straits; Vancouver Island Clallam people; Comox; Homalco; Slaiamun; Slaiämun; British Columbia Stalo; Chemainus; Fraser Valley Chilliwack; Fraser Valley Stalo; Katzie; Nanaimo Coast Salish; Fraser River Coast Salish; Cowichan; Halkomelem; Lower Fraser Valley Katzie; Musqueam; Stseelis; Tsawwassen; Upper Stalo; Puget Sound Coast Salish; Nooksack; Pentlach Coast Salish; Pentlatch; Sechelt; Squamish; Sanetch; Lummi; Saanich; Samish; Semiahmoo; Songish; Puget Sound Twana |
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Interior Salish |
British Columbia; Washington |
Entiat; Mount Currie; British Columbia Fraser Lillooet; British Columbia Lillooet; Lillooet; British Columbia Shuswap |
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Tillamook |
Oregon |
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Tsamosan |
Washington |
Chehalis; Quinault |
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Tsimshianic |
Nass-Gitksan |
British Columbia; Alaska |
Nass River First Nations; Gitksan; Gitxan; Gitksan Tsimshian; Kitsumkalum; Nishga; Nishga Tsimshian; Nass Niska; Nass River Nishga |
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Tsimshian |
British Columbia; Alaska |
Coast Tsimshian; British Columbia Tsimshian; Kitasoo; Port Simpson People; Tsimshian; Tsimshians |
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Unclassified |
Coosan |
Oregon |
Coos |
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Haida |
British Columbia; Alaska |
British Columbia Haida; Eagles; Raven Clan Haida; Masset Haida; Skidegate Haida |
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Siuslaw |
Oregon |
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Takelman |
Oregon |
Takelma; Kalapuya |
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Tlingit |
British Columbia; Yukon; Alaska |
Chilkat; Coastal Tlingit; Inland Tlingit Crow group (sib); Tlingit Hutsnuwu tribe; Teslin Tlingit; Killisnoo; Sanya and Yakutat Tlingit; Sitka Tlingit; Alaska Tlingit; Taku River people; Forrester Islands Tlingit; Yakutat |
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Wakashan |
Haisla |
British Columbia |
Kitimat; Kitimaat; Kitamaat |
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Heiltsuk |
British Columbia |
Bella Bella; Haihais; Oowekeeno |
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Kwakiutl |
British Columbia |
Charlotte Straight cultures; Kingcome Inlet; Knights Inlet; Klahoose; Toba Inlet and Cortes Island British Columbia Klahoose; Klahuse; Klauhuse; Koskimo; Kwakwaka’wakw; British Columbia Kwakiutl; Vancouver Island Kwakiutl; Queen Charlotte Strait cultures; Tl’uhus; British Columbia Tl’uhus; Tlawitis; Toba Inlet people; Tsawadi |
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Nootkan |
British Columbia; Washington |
Nuu-chah-nulth; Ahousaht; Aht Nootka; Nootka; Clayoquot; Vancouver Island Nootka; Hesquiat Harbor; Vancouver Island Hesquiat; Kelsomat; Kyuquot; Kyuquot Nootka; Manhousat; Makah; Moachat; Muchalat Nootka; Opetchesaht Nootka; Ahousat; Cape Flattery Nootka; Nootka Sound; Norton Sound; West Coast of Vancouver Island |
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British Columbia Coast cultures; Coastal British Columbia Aboriginals; Coastal British Columbia First Nations; Coastal cultures of British Columbia; Indigenous Peoples of Coastal British Columbia; Indigenous Peoples of the British Columbian coast; Indigenous Peoples of the Coast of British Columbia; Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast; Indigenous Peoples of the West Coast of North America; Northwest Coast cultures; Northwest coast groups; Northwest Coast Indians; Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples; Northwest Coast Peoples; Northwest coast villages; People from northwest coast of North America; People of the Northwest Coast; prehistoric Indigenous Peoples of the Central Coast of British Columbia; prehistoric West Coast Peoples; Southern Washington coast; Vancouver Island peoples; Washington coast cultures; West Coast cultures; West Coast groups; West coast Indigenous Peoples |
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Plains |
Algonquian |
Arapaho |
Wyoming |
Plains Arapaho |
Blackfoot |
Alberta; Montana |
Blackfeet; Blood; Blood Peoples |
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Cheyenne |
Wyoming |
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Cree |
Alberta; Saskatchewan |
Plains Cree; Red Earth Cree; Wawinahk; Sokawatikoskahk; Alberta Plains Cree; Saskatchewan Plains Cree |
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Ojibwa-Algonquin |
Ontario; Manitoba; Saskatchewan |
Anishinabeg; Anishinabek; Anishnabeg; Chippewa; Ojibwa; Ojibwa Plains Turtle Mountain Band; Plains Ojibwa; Bungi; Sakimay Reserve; Potawatomi; Saulteaux; Western Ojibwa |
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Caddoan |
Arikara |
North Dakota |
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Metis |
Plains Metis |
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Siouan |
Crow |
Montana |
Crow hunters; Crow People |
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Dakotan |
Manitoba; Saskatchewan; Alberta; North Dakota; South Dakota |
Dakota; Stoney; Canadian Sioux; Assiniboine |
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Hidatsa |
North Dakota |
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Sioux |
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Cultures from the Central Prairies; Indigenous Peoples of the Plains; Plains Bison Hunters; Plains cultures; Plains People; Rapid; Rapid Indians |
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Plateau |
Eyak-Athabaskan |
Nicola |
British Columbia |
British Columbia Nicola |
Isolate |
Kutenai |
British Columbia; Idaho; Montana |
Kootenai; Kinbasket; British Columbia Kootenai; Plateau region Kootenai; Kootenay; Crow's Nest Pass People |
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Salishan |
Interior Salish |
British Columbia; Idaho; Washington; Oregon; Montana |
Idaho Coeur d’Alene; Washington Coeur d’Alene; British Columbia Interior Salish; Chelan tribes of the Middle Columbia River; Mid Columbia Indians; Mid-Columbia Indians; Mid-Columbia Indians of the Columbia River between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids; Middle Columbia River Salish; Salishan Sanpoil; Sinkayuse; Spokane; Flathead; Montana Flathead; Kalispel; Lake Pend d’Oreille Kalispel; Midwest Kalispel; Colville; Colville – Okanagan; Colville Lake; Okanagan; Washington Okanagan; Salish Okanagan; Similkameen; Shuswap; Thompson; N'laka'pamux; Spuzzum; Fraser Canyon Spuzzum; British Colombia Thompson; Wenatchee |
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Unclassified |
Cayuse |
Oregon; Washington |
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Sahaptian |
Oregon; Idaho; Washington |
Nez Percé; Nez
Perce; Yakama |
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Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Plateau; Plateau hunters; Plateau Indigenous Peoples; Plateau People |
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Southwest |
Eyak-Athabaskan |
Apachean |
Arizona; New Mexico |
Apachean cultures; Southwestern Apache; Navajo |
Subarctic |
Algonquian |
Cree |
Labrador; Quebec; Ontario; Manitoba; Saskatchewan; Alberta |
Abitibi; Attawapiskat; Attawapiskat Cree; James Bay Cree; Omushkego Cree; Bush Cree; Moose River Basin Cree; Mistissini Cree; West Main Cree; East Main Cree; Eastmain Cree; Hudson Bay Cree; Northern Manitoba Cree; Paint Hills Cree; Fort George Cree; Western Woods Cree; Waswanipi Cree; Wood Buffalo National Park Cree; Northern Quebec Cree; Woodland Cree; Capsaouis River Cree; Mushkegowuk; Nemiscau Cree; Northern Algonquian; Northern Cree; Northern Ontario Cree; Quebec Cree; Rupert House Cree; Shoal Lake Cree; Western Cree; Westmain Cree; Muskeg; Slave River; Attikamek |
Montagnais-Naskapi (Innu) |
Labrador; Quebec |
Coastal Montagnais; Coastal Innu; Davis Inlet Naskapi; Innu; Lake Saint John Naskapi; Lake Saint-John Montagnais; Montagnais; Lake Melville Montagnais; Lake St. John Montagnais; St. Lawrence River Montagnais; Quebec Montagnais; Montagnais Naskapi; Godbout Montagnais; Montagnais-Naskapi (Innu); Labrador Naskapi; Natashquan band of Naskapi |
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Ojibwa-Algonquin |
Quebec; Ontario |
Abitibi; Anishinabeg; Anishinabek; Ojibway; Chippewa; Northern Ojibwa; Ojibwa; Potawatomi |
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Eyak-Athabaskan |
Ahtna |
Alaska |
Lower Ahtna; Copper River Ahtna |
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Beaver |
British Columbia; Alberta |
British Columbia Beaver culture; Alberta Beaver culture; Beaver First Nation |
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Carrier |
British Columbia |
Bulky River Carrier; Ulkatcho-Carrier; Wet’suwet’en |
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Chilcotin |
British Columbia |
Anahem Chilcotin; Stone Chilcotin |
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Chipewyan |
Alberta; Saskatchewan; Manitoba; Northwest Territories |
Caribou Eaters; Wood Buffalo National Park Chipewyan; Fort Resolution Chipewyan; Stony Rapids Chipewyan; Ethen-eldeli; Hatchet Lake Chipewyan; Great Slave Lake Chipewyan; Slave River; Fort Smith Chipewyan; Moose-Deer Island House People |
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Dogrib |
Northwest Territories |
Copper (Dene); Lac la Marte Dogrib; Lac la Martre People; Yellowknife (Dene); Yellowknives |
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Gwich'in |
Yukon; Northwest Territories; Alaska |
Alaska Kutchin; Kutchin; Chalkyitsik Kutchin; Chandalar Kutchin; community of Old Crow; Crow River Kutchin; cultures from Chandalar River; Peel River Kutchin; Yukon Flats Kutchin; Vunta Kutchin; Loucheux; Vuntut Gwich’in; Old Crow Kutchin; Black River Kutchin; Vanta Kutchin |
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Han |
Yukon; Alaska |
Yukon Han |
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Ingalik |
Alaska |
Athapaskan First Nations of the Yukon and Kuskokwim River basins; Ingalik of the Yukon and Kuskokwim River basin; Kuskokwin Ingalik; Lower Kuskokwim; Shageluk; Yukon Ingalik |
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Kolchan |
Alaska |
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Koyukon |
Alaska |
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Sekani |
British Columbia |
Secani |
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Slavey-Hare |
Northwest Territories; Alberta; British Columbia |
Athapaskan Slave; cultures from Fort Providence; Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake Dene (Sahtu/Hareskin); Fort Nelson First Nation; Fort Nelson hunters; Fort Nelson Slave; Fort Nelson Slavey; Hare; Northwestern Canada Hare; Lac la Marte Hare; Mountain (Sahtu) People; Nelson Slave; Sahtu; Sahtu Dene; Sahtu Hare; Sahtu/Hareskin Dene (Sahtu); Slave; Slave Lake and Bear Lake cultures (Sahtu); Slaves; Slavey |
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Tahltan-Kaska-Tagish |
British Columbia; Yukon |
Tahltan; Kaska; Cordilleran Athapaskan of the Stikine River; cultures from Dease River; Dease River Kaska; Telegraph Creek Iskoot; Upper Liard Kaska; Nahani (Dene); Plateau Tahltan; Stikine Plateau Tahltan; Tagish; Tselona; Tselona Kaska; Yukon Kaska |
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Tanaina |
Alaska |
Cook Inlet Tanaina; Susitna River Basin Tanaina |
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Tanana |
Alaska |
Upper Tanana; Tanana River Peoples; Lower Tanana of Minto, Alaska; Upper Tanana of Alaska |
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Tsetsaut |
British Columbia |
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Tutchone |
Yukon |
Yukon Champagne and Aishihik; First Nations residents in Teslin and Whitehorse; Hutshi; Nahani (Dene); people of Haines Junction (Champagne and Aishihik); Southern Tutchone; Southwestern Yukon residents; Yukon cultures from Haines Junction |
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Athabaskan of Arctic Drainage Lowlands; Athapaskan cultures; Athapaskan First Nations; Athapaskan of the Alaskan Plateau; Athapaskan peoples; Dene; Interior Dene; Northern Athapaskan cultures; Yukon; Yukon Athapaskan First Nations |
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Iroquoian |
Laurentians |
Quebec |
Saint Lawrence Iroquois |
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Metis |
Wood Buffalo National Park Metis; Métis |
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Unclassified |
Beothuk |
Newfoundland |
Newfoundland Beothuk |
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Subarctic Indians; Subarctic Indigenous Peoples; Sub-arctic Indigenous Peoples |