Tribal ancestry by U.S. county 2020

[Peterski]

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[Etelfrido]

Who have been the US' most prominent tribes? Mexico has the Aztecs and the Maya, Peru the Inca, Chile the Mapuche, Paraguay the Guarani, Uruguay the Charrua, and we have the Tupi.

[Peterski]

Who have been the US' most prominent tribes? Mexico has the Aztecs and the Maya, Peru the Inca, Chile the Mapuche, Paraguay the Guarani, Uruguay the Charrua, and we have the Tupi.

Navajo is the most populous tribe among people who identify as "Native American Alone".

And Cherokee comes second.

[Highwayman]

Who have been the US' most prominent tribes? Mexico has the Aztecs and the Maya, Peru the Inca, Chile the Mapuche, Paraguay the Guarani, Uruguay the Charrua, and we have the Tupi.

The Navajo are the most numerous, because their population increased while most dwindled after European contact and conflict.


Perhaps the Mississippi Culture is the best fit of what you describe and would have been comparable to the Mayan in time period. There was a large city a millennia ago and certainly some southeastern originated tribes descended from them.



As for the most burnt into the modern American psyche, with teepees and fighting cowboys and calvary… perhaps the great plains tribes: Sioux, Comanche, Crow.

On the other hand, ala Pocahantas, are the east coast tribes… the Powhatan confederation that fought with the earliest Virginians, the Wapanhoag led New England tribes fighting the puritan settlers and less than a century later the Shawnee that united many other midwestern tribes to halt the expansion of the new USA.


And of course the Cherokee were among the most conflict, numerous times during the middle to the end of the 18th century in Appalachian south.

[Boudin]

Highest Indigenous American ethnicity per Acadiana parish (based on my 23andMe DNA Relatives):

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[Peterski]

Who have been the US' most prominent tribes? Mexico has the Aztecs and the Maya, Peru the Inca, Chile the Mapuche, Paraguay the Guarani, Uruguay the Charrua, and we have the Tupi.

Three largest tribes in each state (2010 census):

Arkansas:

Cherokee
Choctaw
Creek

Missouri:

Cherokee
Choctaw
Sioux

Illinois:

Cherokee
Chippewa
Sioux

Tennessee:

Cherokee
Choctaw
Chippewa

Kentucky:

Cherokee
Sioux
Chippewa

Ohio:

Cherokee
Chippewa
Sioux

West Virginia:

Cherokee
Sioux
Iroquois

Pennsylvania:

Cherokee
Iroquois
Sioux

Florida:

Cherokee
Creek
Seminole

Louisiana:

Houma
Cherokee
Choctaw

Georgia:

Cherokee
Creek
Choctaw

Alabama:

Cherokee
Creek
Choctaw

Mississippi:

Choctaw
Cherokee
Houma

South Carolina:

Cherokee
Lumbee
Catawba

North Carolina:

Lumbee
Cherokee
Haliwa-Saponi

Virginia:

Cherokee
Lumbee
Chickahominy

Maryland:

Cherokee
Lumbee
Piscataway

Delaware:

Nanticoke
Cherokee
Lenape

New Jersey:

Cherokee
Lenape
Nanticoke Lenni Lenape

New York:

Iroquois
Cherokee
Shinnecock

Washington:

Puget Sound Salish
Yakama
Colville

Oregon:

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Klamath
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

California:

Cherokee
Apache
Navajo

Texas:

Cherokee
Choctaw
Apache

Nevada:

Paiute
Shoshone
Navajo

Kansas:

Cherokee
Potawatomi
Choctaw

Colorado:

Navajo
Cherokee
Sioux

Utah:

Navajo
Ute
Paiute

Arizona:

Navajo
Apache
Pima

New Mexico:

Navajo
Pueblo
Apache

Rhode Island:

Narragansett
Wampanoag
Pequot

Connecticut:

Pequot
Mohegan
Cherokee

Massachusetts:

Wampanoag
Cherokee
Mikmaq

New Hampshire:

Cherokee
Abenaki
Mikmaq

Vermont:

Abenaki
Cherokee
Iroquois

Maine:

Passamaquoddy
Mikmaq
Penobscot

Alaska:

Yupik
Inupiat
Alaskan Athabascan

Oklahoma:

Cherokee
Choctaw
Creek

Indiana:

Cherokee
Miami
Chippewa

Minnesota:

Chippewa
Sioux
Cherokee

Wisconsin:

Chippewa
Iroquois
Menominee

Michigan:

Chippewa
Odawa
Potawatomi

Iowa:

Sioux
Sac and Fox
Ho-Chunk

Idaho:

Shoshone-Bannock
Nez Perce
Skitswish

Wyoming:

Arapaho
Shoshone
Sioux

Montana:

Blackfeet
Crow
Assiniboine

Nebraska:

Sioux
Omaha
Ho-Chunk

North Dakota:

Chippewa
Sioux
MHA Nation

South Dakota:

Sioux
Chippewa
Cheyenne