State Recognized Indigenous Tribes of the United States

United States American Indian Genealogy American Indian State Recognized Tribes

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 | California | Connecticut | Delaware | Georgia | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts |Montana | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Texas| Vermont | Virginia | Washington

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

California
Juaneno Band of Mission Indians

Connecticut
Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Schaghticoke Tribal Nation

Delaware
Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware Nanticoke Indian Association, Inc.

Georgia
Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee

Louisiana
Addai Caddo Tribe 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 teh Saponi Nation Sappony Waccamaw-Siouan Tribe

South Carolina
Beaver Creek Indians Edisto Natchez Kusso Tribe of South Carolina Pee Dee Nation of Upper South Carolina Pee Dee Indian Tribe of South Carolina 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 Mattaponi Monacan Nation Nansemond Nottoway of Virginia Pamunkey Pattawomeck Rappahannock Upper Mattaponi Tribe

Washington
Chinook Indian Tribe

Sources:
National Conference of State Legislatures

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