Estimate Numbers of Native
Americans or Indians: 40 to 70 million.
Numbers of Native Americans in
United States and Canada:
2,475,956 (USA) 799,000 (Canada)
The 1960 United States
Census count was 523,591. The 1970 figures were 792,730.
In 1980, it was 1.3 million. The 1990 Census had 1.9
million people reporting their race as full-blooded
American Indian. The Bureau of Indian Affairs says there
are 1.2 million card-carrying Indians. Another 7 million
claimed partial Native American ancestry on their taxes.
That's an astonishing 1 in every 35 Americans. The numbers
can't be right, and there are no best estimates. Most
Sociology textbooks put the figure at 2 million, which is
slightly less than 1% of the U.S. population. The 2000
Census put the figure at 4.3 million (1.5% of 281 million
persons in the United States), and this figure includes
persons who reported their race as "American Indian or
Alaska Native" with or without another racial category.
About 2.5 million (0.9%) listed only "American Indian or
Alaska Native" and 1.8 million as combined with an
additional race.
While
there are only 341 federally recognized Native American
tribes residing in the lower 48 states, there are
approximately 557 different tribes or "bands" in the lower
48 states, at least 200 sizeable Alaskan villages, and
40,000 Native Hawaiians. Source: Tom O'Connor PhD. and
Amy Willis, North Carolina Wesleyan College,
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect12.htm
(7-7-2006)
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Indian Tribes in United States and
Canada
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We
the People, Native American - U.S. Census 2000
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American Indian and Alaskan Natives
Population Report
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Canada First Nations Report on
Population 2001sa
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Native American Population in Utah
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Excellent Link in the Native
American Census
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Tribal
Government Liaison Handbook on the Census 2000
Numbers of Native Americans or
Indians in
Latin America:
39,442,000 million
(Countries with more than a million): Mexico (12m.), Peru
(10.2m.), Bolivia (4.2m.), Guatemala (4.2m.), Ecuador
(3.34m.), Chile (1m.).
(Countries with less than a million): Argentina (398t.),
Belize (30t.), Brazil (243t.), Colombia (547t.), Costa
Rica (32t.), El Salvador (300t.), Guyana (28t.), Honduras
(245t.), Nicaragua (152t.), Panama (126t.), Paraguay
(67t.), Surinam (10t.), and Venezuela (331t.)
(t.=thousand).
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Indian Tribes in Latin America
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Latin American Indian Population - Up date
Problems with Statistics regarding Native Americans or
Indians: In some countries in Latin America, there are no
census data for Native people, in others, the census
include complex criteria to determine who is Native. Until
few years ago, some countries denied the existence of
Native people in their territories and in many cases,
Native people denied their origin due to the pressure of
society who consider them "uncivilized". In my opinion the
estimated numbers are very low, in one of my
presentations, I further explain my position. Source:
America Indigena (1-2-1992)
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Latin American Indian Population - Up date
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A
Paper About Latin American Indian Populations
(Spanish)
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Indians in Latina America, Population (Spanish)
WASHINGTON
(AP) — One in four American Indians lives in Oklahoma or
California, according to the 2000 Census, which reported
that 4.1 million people said they were all or part
"American Indian or Alaska Native."
In the 1990
Census nearly 2 million people checked that box, though
figures are not directly comparable because of differences
in the way race and ethnicity data are tallied.
The Census
Bureau used a massive advertising and outreach effort to
improve its American Indian count, especially on isolated
and hard-to-reach reservations. For many tribal
governments, results are crucial to secure accurate
financing from the federal government, said Louis Tutt,
the Navajo Nation's Census liaison.
Cherokee
and Navajo were by far the tribes most often checked off
on forms
The 2000
head count found 298,197 people who were all or part
Navajo, a total that includes those people living off
Navajo land.
"We think
we have reached 100% of the people for the first time,"
Tutt said by telephone from tribal headquarters in Window
Rock, Ariz. "The result of the count is very satisfying."
Among
tribal groupings, only the Cherokee, numbering 729,533,
surpassed the Navajo. Cherokee Nation spokesman Mike
Miller said that while his Tahlequah, Okla.-based
government took an active role during Census-taking, it
thinks its population was undercounted.
"We're
located in the hills, with rural roads," Miller said.
"Lots of times you can go down these rural roads and not
know that there's dozens of houses in those woods."
The Census
Bureau has considered releasing a second overall
population count based on adjusted data, which many
Democrats say would offer a more accurate count of
minorities. But last year the bureau twice recommended
against adjusted data.
The bureau
cited much lower undercount rates among minority groups —
on American Indian reservations, for instance — among its
reasons to stick with the raw head count for redrawing
political lines and distributing federal funds.
The latest
report summarized data previously released by the Census
Bureau. It shows that 40% of those who selected American
Indian or Alaska Native took advantage of a first-ever
option to check off more than one race on their form.
Because of
a long history of intermarriage between American Indians
and whites, demographers had predicted that American
Indians would have one of the highest percentages of
people who were multiracial.
The option
especially boosted the Cherokee total, of which nearly 60%
also selected another race or tribal grouping.
"Out in
Indian country, there's an expression that everybody has a
Cherokee grandmother," said Stanford University
demographer Matthew Snipp.
Source:
USA TODAY, February 13, 2002
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Indian Tribes
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