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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