Recognizing the Third Sovereign: Promoting Awareness of, Respect for, and Access to Native American Tribal Law

Native-land.ca is a website dedicated to helping people across the world learn more
about their local Indigenous history.

This is a listing of all Federally Recognized Tribes in the 48 contiguous states and
Alaska.

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The Tribal Leaders Directory provides contact information for each federally recognized
tribe. It has an electronic, map based, interactive directory which also provides
information about each BIA region and agency that provides services to a specific tribe.
Additionally, the directory provides contact information for Indian Affairs leadership.

Nov 23, 1993, 107 Stat. 1510. Joint Resolution to acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the
January 17, 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, and to offer an apology to Native Hawaiians on
behalf of the United States for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i.[S.J. Res. 19]

Indigenous peoples have in common a historical continuity with a given region prior to
colonization and a strong link to their lands. They maintain, at least in part, distinct
social, economic and political systems. They have distinct languages, cultures, beliefs
and knowledge systems. They are determined to maintain and develop their identity and
distinct institutions and they form a non-dominant sector of society.
There are over 476 million indigenous people living in 90 countries across the world,
accounting for 6.2 per cent of the global population. Of those, there are more than 5,000
distinct groups.