State Recognized Indigenous Tribes of the United States

State 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