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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the current total population of Native Americans in the United States is 6.79 million, which is about 2.09% of the entire population. There are about 574 federally recognized Native American tribes in the U.S.
Nov 22, 2022 · The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs recognizes 574 individual tribes as of 2022. Among the 6.4 million people for whom the American Community Survey specified an American Indian tribal...
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The distributions of the broad AIAN categories varied widely by state in 2020: Over 77% of the Alaska Native alone population resided in Alaska (Figure 1). Washington had the second largest Alaska Native alone population (6.0%), followed by California (2.5%), Oregon (1.8%) and Texas (1.4%).
In 2022, 634,503 Indigenous people in the United States identified with Central American Indigenous groups, 875,183 identified with the Indigenous people of Mexico, and 47,518 identified with Canadian First Nations. [46]
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It has long been clear that Native women in the U.S. are exposed to increased violence (see The Indigenous World 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2020). Reinvigorating previously underfunded and somewhat disjointed attempts to bring a solution to this violence, Secretary of the Interior Haaland announced a new Missing and Murdered Unit within the Bureau...
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the long-running Brackeen case in April. The case, now Brackeen v Haaland, asks whether the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is unconstitutional (see The Indigenous World 2016, 2019, and 2020). ICWA governs adoptive processes if they involve children that are eligible to be enrolled in tribe...
The Biden administration has had an impact on several natural resource projects favored by the Trump administration and opposed by tribes. Almost immediately after being inaugurated, President Biden placed a moratorium on oil and gas activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). In June, he froze all leasing in the ANWR until a new envi...
In August, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Rosebud Sioux Tribe v United States. The tribe argued that the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868 imposed an obligation on the federal government to provide “competent, physician-led healthcare” to the Lakota.11The court ruled in favor of the tribe and, in December, the Biden administration decide...
In June, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on United States v Cooley, a case with wide implications for tribal jurisdiction and sovereignty.14Jurisdiction on American Indian reservations is notoriously complex. This case stems back to 2016 when a tribal police office of the Crow Nation in Montana stopped a driver on a U.S. highway going through t...
Another case explores connected issues. Over the summer, the White Earth Nation sued the state of Minnesota through a tribal court in a case related to the Line 3 pipeline. White Earth has codified the rights of wild rice in its tribal laws, and the pipeline, off-reservation yet on treaty territory, crosses wild rice beds. Minnesota appealed to the...
1 Estimates vary depending on definitions. The official Census uses self-identification. It provides much smaller numbers for those who only identify as American Indian / Alaska Native than it does for those who identify as American Indian / Alaska Native and another population group. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service and othe...
Aug 19, 2021 · About 61% of those who identified as American Indian and Alaska Native population last year or 5.9 million people were multiracial, according to the Census Bureau.
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Jun 15, 2023 · JUNE 15, 2023 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released new detailed social, economic, housing and demographic statistics for hundreds of race, tribal, Hispanic origin and ancestry populations based on the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates.
