TRIBAL NATION CASE STUDIES

Map of nations

 

The books and websites are not necessarily endorsed by Professor Grossman as complete or accurate sources;

all should be read critically. Major geography-related link suggestions are welcome. Links are subject to change!

#	Tribal nation	Other tribal name(s) (and language family)	Lands in states/ provinces	Book/chapter sources (check in library)	Native website sources and current issues
1	Lake Superior Ojibwe	Chippewa, Anishinaabeg (Algonquian language family)	N. WI, N.E. MN, U.P.	Loew (pp 54-83) Wisconsin's Past & Present (pp10-11, 14-15) Walleye Warriors Paths of the People Ojibwe bibliography Native American Communities in Wisc.	GLIFWC Midwest Treaty Network Understanding the Conflict Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa Mille Lacs
2	Other Ojibwe	Chippewa, Ojibwa, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek (Algonquian language family)	N.W. MN, S. MI, ND, S. Manitoba, Ontario	Same as above LaDuke, Ch. 6 Culture/history	Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa White Earth Land Recovery Project Union of Ontario Indians Nawash (Lake Huron)
3	Potawatomi	Pottawatomie, Bodewadmi, Nishnawbe (Algonquian language family)	WI, MI, Ontario, KS, OK	Loew (pp 84-99) Wisconsin's Past & Present (pp 12-15) Potawatomi bibliography Native American Communities in Wisc.	Forest County Potawatomi Potawatomi Web Culture/language
4	Menominee	Omaeqnominnewwuk (Algonquian language family)	WI	Loew (pp 24-39) Wisconsin's Past & Present (pp 6-7, 14-15) Menominee bibliography Sustaining the Forest Freedom with Reservation Native American Communities in Wisc. Siege & Survival	Menominee Treaty Rights Menominee Clans Story Midwest Treaty Network College of the Menominee Nation Sustainable forestry (pdf)
5	Oneida	Onyota'a:ka Part of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy) (Iroquoian language family)	WI, NY, Ontario	Loew (pp 100-112) Wisconsin's Past & Present (pp 6-7, 14-15) Oneida Land Claims Oneida secondary sources Oneida bibliography Native American Communities in Wisc.	Oneida Nation WI Oneida Nation NY Oneidas for Democracy Degiyagoh.net Museum Natural World
6	Mohican	Muhhekaneok Stockbridge- Munsee Band (WI) (Algonquian language family)	WI, NY, NJ, MA	Loew (pp 113-123) Wisconsin's Past & Present (pp 6-7) Mohican history & bibliography Native American Communities in Wisc.	Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee
7	Dakota	Santee Sioux, Mdewakanton Dakota (Siouan language family)	MN, NE, E. SD	Wisconsin's Past & Present (pp 8-9) History of Santee Sioux Through Dakota Eyes Lakota/Dakota Bibliography	Prairie Island Community Prairie Island Coalition Mendota Community Mendota oaks Midwest Treaty Network
8	Lakota	Teton Sioux (Siouan language family)	W. SD, ND	Lakota Woman Ohitika Woman In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Black Elk Speaks Crow Dog Lakota/Dakota Bibliography	Black Hills Defenders Yankton burials Lakota Journal Lakota Mall links Teton Sioux Treaty Council Rosebud hog farm Stronghold Natural World White Clay alcohol
9	Ho-Chunk	Winnebago, Hocak, Hochungra, Hotcak (Siouan language family)	WI, NE	Loew (pp 40-53) Wisconsin's Past & Present (pp 8-9, 14-15) Ho-Chunk bibliography Mountain Wolf Woman Ho-Chunk Chiefs Native American Communities in Wisc.	Ho-Chunk Nation (WI) Winnebago Tribe (NE) Midwest Treaty Network Ho-Chunk links Winnebago books
10	Navajo	Diné (Athabascan language family)	AZ, NM, UT	Book of the Navajo Diné: A History Navajo bibliography Navajo Atlas The Wind Won't Know Me Navajo sandpainting Four Corners	Black Mesa Coal slurry protests Navajo Nation Diné CARE Uranium mining Uranium links
11	Hopi	Moqui (Aztec-Tanoan language family)	AZ	Book of the Hopi Fourth World of the Hopis No Turning Back Hopi migrations Hopi Survival Kit Four Corners Hopi bibliography	Navajo-Hopi land dispute Hopi Cultural Preservation office Black Mesa Natural World
12	Pueblo tribes	Taos, Picuris, San Juan, Santa Clara, Nambe, San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, Tesuque, Jemez, Sandia, Isleta (Aztec-Tanoan family); Laguna, Acoma, Cochiti, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, and Zia (Keresan family); Zuñi (Penutian family)	NM	Pueblo Nations Pueblo Indians Pueblo partial bibliography Zuni Atlas Archaeology sources Visitors' Guide	Pueblo Indian overview Cultural Center Zuni Salt Lake Search for Pueblo tribes listed at left
13	Apache	Jicarilla, Mescalero, Chiricahua, San Carlos, White Mountain (Athabascan language family)	AZ, NM	Wisdom Sits in Places Apache bibliography History & Culture Portrait Eagles of the Southwest Once They Moved Like the Wind	Apache links Mount Graham & case Mescalero nuclear waste
14	Tohono O'odham	Papago (Aztec-Tanoan language family)	AZ, Mexico	Of Earth and Little Rain The Desert Smells Like Rain Desert Indian Woman Sharing the Desert	Citizenship bill A nation divided Tohono O'odham Today Community Action Mexican office occupation
15	Tlingit and Haida	(Na-Dené language family, also including Athabascan)	AK, BC	Images of a People Haa Aani, Our Land Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) Memory Eternal (Russians) Against Culture	Tlingit-Haida Council Haida Gwaii forests Natural World AK Native Knowledge Network ANCSA Resource Center AK Federation of Natives
16	Northern Athabascan	Dené (Athabascan language family)	AK, Yukon, NWT	Arctic Refuge: Circle of Testimony Under the Arctic Sun We Traveled from Place to Place Two Old Women Northern Athabascan Survival	Gwich'in & ANWR ANCSA & Alaska Federation of Natives Alaska Native Knowledge Network Chickaloon village Subsistence rights Gwich'in Environmental Knowledge
17	Inuit	Eskimo (Eskimo-Aleut language family)	AK, Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec, Russia, Greenland	Alaska to Nunavut The Road to Nunavut Inuksuk Book Arctic Crossing Gift of the Whale	Inuit Circumpolar Conference Nunavut (Canada) Inupiaq (AK) ANCSA & Alaska Federation of Natives Alaska Native Knowledge Network
18	Cree	Eeyou (Algonquian language family)	Alberta, Sask., Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec	Defending the Land The Eeyou Never Without Consent Religious Persistence Plot to Drown the Northwoods James Bay Memoirs	Quebec dams Manitoba dams Quebec referendum 1995 Saskatchewan uranium mining
19	Seminole	Simanoli (Muskogean language family)	FL, OK, TX	LaDuke, Ch. 2 Seminoles of Florida Seminole bibliography Black Seminoles	Seminole Nation (OK) Seminole Nation (FL) Traditional Seminole (FL) Everglades land acquisition
20	Western Shoshone	Newe (Aztec-Tanoan language family)	NV, CA, UT	LaDuke, Ch. 5 Road on Which We Came The Way It Is Shoshone Mike Shoshone-Paiute bibliography	Western Shoshone Defense Project Nuclear issues1 2 Western Shoshone sovereignty Western Shoshone history
21	Blackfeet	Siksika Pikuni Blood and Piegan (Alberta) (Algonquian language family)	MT, Alberta	Blackfeet bibliography Rebirth of Blackfeet Nation Tales of Glacier Park The Sun Came Down	Blackfeet Nation Blackfeet Reservation Badger-Two Medicine
22	Nez Perce	Nimiipu (Penutian language family)	ID, OR, WA	Salmon & the People Yellow Wolf Hear Me My Chiefs Nez Perce bibliography	CRITFC Lewis & Clark Nez Perce Tribe (ID) Columbia-Snake dams
23	Puget Sound tribes	Lummi, S'Klallam, Klallam, Muckleshoot, Upper Skagit, Squaxin I., Nisqually, Nooksack, Puyallup, Swinomish, Sauk-Suiattle, Tulalip, Skokomish, Stillaguamish, Suquamish, Quinault (Salish language family); Makah (Wakashan family); Quileute (Chimakuan family)	WA	Treaties on Trial Salmon resources Messages from Frank's Landing Comanagement Indians in the Making	NWIFC Makah Nation Makah whaling conflict For the Sake of the Salmon Washington treaties Tulalip Natural Resources Search for tribes listed at left
24	Mohawk	Kahniakehake Part of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy)   (Iroquoian language family)	NY, Ontario, Quebec	LaDuke, Ch. 1 Akwesasne Notes In Defense of Mohawk Land Heeding Voices of Our Ancestors This Land is Our Land Entering the War Zone White Roots of Peace Debating Democracy	Iroquois Constitution Basic Call to Consciousness (parts 2, 3) Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs Akwesasne Environment Natural World Degiyagoh.net Oka Crisis 1990
25	Innu	Montagnais-Naskapi (Algonquian language family)	Quebec, Labrador	LaDuke, Ch. 3 Nitassinan Way of Life That Does Not Exist People of Sheshatsit Canada's Tibet Innu bibliography	Innu Nation Low-level flights Voisey's Bay mine Innu Nation land claim
26	Choctaw	Chata (Algonquian language family)	OK, MS	Removal of the Choctaw Rise & Fall of Choctaw Republic History of the Choctaw Choctaw Nation Roots of Dependency Choctaw bibliography	Choctaw Nation (OK) Choctaw links Choctaw Indians
27	Northern Cheyenne	Tsitsistas (Algonquian language family)	MT	LaDuke, Ch. 4 Morning Star Dawn Tell Them We Are Going Home Northern Cheyenne & Energy Crisis People of the Sacred Mountain	Northern Cheyenne Net Social Preservation Project Environmental Justice Sand Creek massacre Northern Cheyenne links History bibliography
28	Crow	Absaroka, Apsaalooke (Siouan language family)	MT	Parading Through History From the Heart of Crow Country History & Culture of Crow	Crow Nation CrowNations.net Crow bibliography
29	Micmac	Mi'kmaq (Algonquian language family)	ME, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec	Resistance, Accommodation, & Cultural Survival Our Lives in Our Hands Red Earth On the Trail of Elder Brother	Burnt Church news Burnt Church fishery Atlantic Policy Congress Mikmaq.net Mikmaq links
30	Yakama	Yakima (Penutian language family)		Empty Nets Time of Gathering Powwow & other traditions Columbia River bibliography Hanford nuclear legacy Kennewick Man & Skull Wars	CRITFC Yakama Nation Columbia-Snake dams Hanford nuclear dump Alcohol ban conflict Recalling Celilo Falls
31	Cherokee	Tsalagi Ani-Yun'wiya (Iroquoian language family)	NC, OK	Cherokee Nation bibliography Books on Cherokee Blood Politics Trail of Tears Eastern Homeland Legal Ideology of Removal	Cherokee History Cherokee Nation (OK) Eastern Cherokee (NC) Cherokee Indian links Cherokee National Historical Society
32	Creek	Muscogee (Muskogean language family)	OK	Creek Indian bibliography Destruction and Regeneration The Only Land They Knew A Sacred Path	Muscogee Creek Nation Muscogee (Creek) History Creek Indian Researcher Creek links & Intro Study of Creek Indians
33	Yurok	Olekw'ol (Algonquian language family)	CA	The Fisherman's Problem Standing Ground Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman Basket Weavers Restoring the Klamath Basin	Yurok homepage Yurok Tribe Klamath fishing Salmon controversy Basketweavers Assoc.
34	Osage	Wasash (Siouan language family)	OK	Invasion of Indian Country (Chapter 2) The Underground Reservation Osage & the Invisible World Earth People/Sky People Hegemony on the Prairie/Plains	Osage Nation Osage Indians Archives of Oklahoma Osage in Indian Territory
35	Flathead	Salish and Kootenai (Salish language family)	MT	Meat for My Salish (buffalo) Flathead Indians of Montana Hell Gate Treaty Libby Dam	Salish & Kootenai Tribes Char-Koosta News People's Center Salish & Kootenai links Salish-Kootenai College

NATIONAL HOMELANDS

(before cessions, migrations or removals)