Table 1.3. Largest American Indian and Alaska Native tribes according to number of self-identified members, by race and tribal group: 2000

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Table 1.3. Largest American Indian and Alaska Native tribes according to number of self-identified members, by race and tribal group: 2000

Tribal group	Total	American Indian/Alaska Native alone	American Indian/Alaska Native in combination with one or more other races
Total	4,119,301	2,475,956	1,643,345

American Indian tribes
Cherokee	729,533	299,862	429,671
Navajo	298,197	275,991	22,206
Latin American Indian¹	180,940	106,204	74,736
Choctaw	158,774	96,901	61,873
Sioux	153,360	113,066	40,294
Chippewa	149,669	108,637	41,032
Apache	96,833	64,977	31,856
Blackfeet	85,750	31,462	54,288
Iroquois²	80,822	47,530	33,292
Pueblo	74,085	63,060	11,025

Alaska Native tribes
Eskimo	54,761	47,337	7,424
Tlingit-Haida	22,365	15,884	6,481
Alaska Athabascan	18,838	15,335	3,503
Aleut	16,978	12,773	4,205

¹ Latin American Indian refers to respondents listing any one of a number of Latin American tribes (e.g., the Maya or Yanomamo).

² Iroquois is a language group which includes 6 federally recognized tribes in its confederacy.

NOTE: "Alone" refers to respondents who selected American Indian/Alaska Native and not any other race category. "In combination with one or more other races" refers to respondents who selected American Indian/Alaska Native and one or more other race categories. Both "alone" and "in combination" include persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Tribal groupings compiled by the Census Bureau do not necessarily correspond with federally recognized tribes. Self-identified membership does not necessarily correspond with official membership in a federally recognized tribe. Tribal populations do not sum to totals because totals include American Indian/Alaska Native populations from many additional tribes. In addition, the numbers by American Indian and Alaska Native tribal groupings do not sum to the total population because tribal groupings are tallies of the number of American Indian and Alaska Native responses rather than the number of American Indian and Alaska Native respondents. Respondents reporting several American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are counted several times. For example, a respondent reporting "Apache and Blackfeet" would be included in the Apache as well as Blackfeet numbers.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Census 2000 Brief: The American Indian and Alaska Native Population, 2000, 2002.

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