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There are 562 federally recognized Indian tribes, bands, nations, pueblos, etc., in the United States.
The Dakota or Santee Sioux were the most easterly group of Sioux tribes. They were made up of the Mdewakanton (Spirit Lake Dwellers), Wahpekute (Shooters Among Leaves), Wahpeton (Dwellers among Leaves) and Sisseton (Fish Offal Dwellers) tribes . Each tribe consisted of seven bands, a sacred number for all Sioux peoples, giving 4 tribes and a total of 28 bands.
A tribe is essentially a large group of people speaking the same language and considering themselves politically interconnected. But food resources would never be sufficient to permit the entire tribe to live together in one place - so native Americans did notlive in tribes, but in bands. These were groups of families following their own chiefs and only occasionally meeting other bands of the tribe - and almost never seeing the entire tribe gathered together.Even the bands might break up into smaller groups during the winter, if food became scarce.Taking the Paiute tribe as an example, this was divided into the following bands, each with its own chiefs:HokwaitsMovwiatsParumpaiatsTsuwaritsIchuarumpatsNauwanatatsParumpatsUainuintsKaibabNogwatsPaspikaivatsUinkaretsKwaiantikwoketsNuaguntitsPawipitsUnkakanigutsKwiengomatsPagaitsPintiatsUnkapanukuintsKwiumpusPaguitsSauwontiatsUtumpaiatsMoapariatsParanigutsShivwitsYagatsMoquatsParugunsTimpashauwagotsits
There were approximately 37 documented tribes / bands that occupied Alabama: * Abihka * Apalachee * Apalachicola * Atsi * Chatot * Cherokee * Chickasaw * Choctaw * Creek Confederacy * Eufaula * Fus-hatchee * Hilibi * Hitchiti * Kan-hatki * Kealedji * Koasati * Kolomi * Mobile * Muklasa * Muskogee (Creek) * Napochi * Natchez * Okchai * Okmulgee * Osochi * Pakana * Pawokti * Pilthlako * Sawokli * Shawnee * Taensa * Tohome * Tukabahchee * Tuskegee * Wakokai * Wiwohka * Yamasee * Yuchi Please note that these are listed as tribes or bands, but may have formed alliances with larger tribes during removal times and now only be known by those larger tribal names.
The native groups of Idaho include:KootenaiKalispelCoeur d' AlenePalouseNez PerceNorthern PaiuteShoshone - BannockEach of these can be sub-divided into smaller bands and "sub-tribes"; the Nez Perce, for example, included the Wallowa, Alahahs and others.
Chiefdoms, unlike bands and tribes, have permanent political positions and regulate the regions they govern
Chiefdoms, unlike bands and tribes, have permanent political positions and regulate the regions they govern
There are 562 federally recognized Indian tribes, bands, nations, pueblos, etc., in the United States.
Tribes
There are about 614 bands or tribes, most have reserves, most are in Western Canada.
The United States Service Bands - 1943 was released on: USA: 1943
The Dakota or Santee Sioux were the most easterly group of Sioux tribes. They were made up of the Mdewakanton (Spirit Lake Dwellers), Wahpekute (Shooters Among Leaves), Wahpeton (Dwellers among Leaves) and Sisseton (Fish Offal Dwellers) tribes . Each tribe consisted of seven bands, a sacred number for all Sioux peoples, giving 4 tribes and a total of 28 bands.
The United States Service Bands - 1943 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved (PCA #9117)
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Actually there are 4 Blackfoot tribes but before that there were many "bands". A band was a group of families and individuals who lived, hunted and went on war parties together. There could be multiple bands and each had it's own selected leader. All the bands usually only met up once a year during the sundance festival and sometimes during the winter to share food and shelter. Bands could split up, add new members and form new bands...The Blackfoot were extremely nomadic and fierce warriors of the plains so it all depended on what fit them the best. There are currently 4 now because after the bands had been decimated by smallpox and starvation they started coming together in large groups forming 4 separate tribes or divisions of the Blackfoot and were given land/reservations based on those tribes.
Some tribes only permitted hunting by males. Many different tribes and bands hunted buffalo and they had very different cultures and means of survival.
In the united states.