State Recognized Indigenous Tribes of the United States

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State recognized tribes are American Indian Tribes and Heritage Groups that are recognized by the individual states. This article lists those tribes with links to the states that recognize them and links to some of the tribes.

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State Recognized Tribes

State recognized tribes are American Indian Tribes and Heritage Groups that are recognized by the individual states. There are other Tribes that are Federally recognized tribes.

Alabama

Cher-O-Creek Intra Tribal Indians

Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama

Cherokees of Southeast Alabama

Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama

Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama

Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians

Piqua Shawnee Tribe

Star Clan of Muscogee Creeks

United Cherokee Ani-Yun-Wiya Nation

Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogee

Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb

Clifton Choctaw

Four Winds Tribe Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy

Grand Caillou/Dulac Band

Isle de Jean Charles Band

Louisiana Choctaw Tribe

Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe

United Houma Nation

Maryland

Piscataway Indian Nation

Piscataway Conoy Tribe

Massachusetts

Nipmuc Nation

Montana

Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians

New Jersey

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation

Powhatan Renape Nation

Ramapough Lunaape Nation

New York

Tonawada Band of Seneca

Tuscarora Nation

Unkechaug Nation

North Carolina

Cohaire Intra-Tribal Council, Inc.

Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe

Lumbee Tribe

Meherrin Nation

Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation

Sappony

Waccamaw-Siouan Tribe

South Carolina

Beaver Creek Indian

Edisto Natchez Kusso Tribe of South Carolina

Pee Dee Nation of Upper South Carolina

The Sumter Tribe of Cheraw Indians

Santee Indian Organization

The Waccamaw Indian People

Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians

Texas

Lipan Apache Tribe

Vermont

Elnu Abenaki Tribe

Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation

Koasek Abenaki Tribe

Mississquoi Abenaki Tribe

Virginia

Cheroenhaka (Nottoway)

Chickahominy Tribe

Eastern Chickahominy Tribe

Upper Mattaponi Tribe

Washington

Chinook Indian Tribe

Sources:

National Conference of State Legislatures [1]

Federal Register, October 1, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 190)(Page 60810-60814) Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: A Survey of State-Recognized Tribes and State Recognition Processes Across the United States; Santa Clara Law Review, Volume 48 (2007); by Alexa Koenig and Jonathan Stein National Congress of American Indians Newspapers and state government websites