List of Tribes by State
The Lewis & Clark Expedition encountered many Native American Nations and crossed their Tribal Lands. These Historic Tribes, as well as their contemporary names and locations, are listed below. By Treaty, many Tribal Nations are, “Confederated” – meaning Tribal Members came from several Historic Tribes and Bands; sometimes many miles from their original Homelands.
Virginia
- Monacan Indian Nation
Oklahoma
- Absentee Shawnee Tribe
- Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation
- Comanche Nation
- Delaware Nation of Western Oklahoma
- Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
- Iowa Nation of Oklahoma
- Kaw Nation of Oklahoma
- Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
- Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
- Osage Nation of Oklahoma
- Otoe-Missouria Tribe
- Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
- Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma • Shawnee Tribe
Iowa
- Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa/Meskwaki
Kansas
- Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska
- Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas
- Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
- Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas & Nebraska
Nebraska
- Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
- Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
- Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska
- Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
South Dakota
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
- Teton Sioux
- Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
- Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
- Teton Sioux
- Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
- Teton Sioux
- Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation
- Teton Sioux
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe
- Teton Sioux
- Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation
- Yankton Sioux Tribe
North Dakota
- Spirit Lake Tribe
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
- Teton Sioux
- Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation)
- Arikara (Originally, South Dakota)
- Hidatsa
- Mandan
- Trenton Indian Service Area
- Turtle Mountain Chippewa
- Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Montana
- Blackfeet Nation
- Pikuni or Piegan
- Blackfoot Confederacy, Canada
- Siksiksa
- Blood/Kainai
- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
- Kootenai
- Salish
- Pend d’Oreille
- Crow Nation
- Fort Belknap Indian Community
- Gros Ventre
- Assiniboine
- Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes
- Assiniboine
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux
- Teton Sioux (Hunkpapa)
- Yanktonais
- Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana
- Northern Cheyenne Tribe
- Rocky Boy Chippewa Cree
Wyoming
- Northern Arapaho Tribe
- Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation
Idaho
- Coeur D’Alene Tribe
- Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
- Nez Perce Tribe
- Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
- Bannock
- Lemhi Shoshone
Washington
- Chinook Indian Tribe
- Cathlamet
- Clatsop
- Lower Chinook
- Wahkiakum
- Willapa
- Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
- Lower Chehalis
- Upper Chehalis
- Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
- Chelan
- Colville
- Entiat
- Lake
- Methow
- Moses-Columbia
- Nespelem
- Nez Perce
- Okanogan
- Palus
- San Poil
- Wenatchee
- Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakama Nation
- Cowlitz
- Kah-miltpah
- Klickitat
- Shyiks
- Kow way say ee
- Li ay was
- Oche Chotes
- Palouse
- Pisquose
- See ap Cat
- Klinquit
- Sk’in-pah
- Wenatchapam
- Wish ham (Wishram)
- Yakama
- Cowlitz Indian Tribe
- Upper Cowlitz
- Lower Cowlitz
- Quinault Indian Nation
- Chehalis
- Chinook
- Clatsop
- Cowlitz
- Hoh
- Nehalem-Tillamook
- Queets
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe
- Lower Chinook
- Willapa Chinook
- Willapa Hills
- Spokane Tribe
- Wanapum Band of Indians
Oregon
- Clatsop/Nehalem Confederated Tribes
- Clatsop
- Nehalem (Tillamook)
- Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
- Chasta
- Kalapuya
- Molalla
- Rogue River
- Umpqua
- Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
- Alsea
- Cheteo
- Coquille
- Coos
- Joshua
- Mackanotni
- Shastacosta
- Siuslaw
- Takelma Six
- Tillamook
- Tutuini
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
- Cayuse
- Umatilla
- Walla Walla (Waluulapam)
- Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
- Warm Springs
- Wasco
- Cascades
- Wishram
- Paiutes