January 25th, 2008 | 
Author: This interesting table shows the growth rates of the top 25 American Indian tribes from 1990 to 2000. It makes for interesting reading to see how the populations are changing over the decade.
1990 Census 1980 Census
Tribe Number Percent Number Percent
All American Indians..... 1,937,391 100.0 1,478,523 100.0
Cherokee...................... 369,035 19.0 232,080 15.7
Navajo........................ 225,298 11.6 158,633 10.7
Sioux 1....................... 107,321 5.5 78,608 5.3
Chippewa...................... 105,988 5.5 73,602 5.0
Choctaw....................... 86,231 4.5 50,220 3.4
Pueblo 2...................... 55,330 2.9 42,552 2.9
Apache........................ 53,330 2.8 35,861 2.4
Iroquois 3.................... 52,557 2.7 38,218 2.6
Lumbee 4...................... 50,888 2.6 28,631 1.9
Creek......................... 45,872 2.4 28,278 1.9
Blackfoot 2................... 37,992 2.0 21,964 1.5
Canadian and Latin American... 27,179 1.4 7,804 0.5
Chickasaw..................... 21,522 1.1 10,317 0.7
Tohono O'Odham................ 16,876 0.9 13,297 0.9
Potawatomi.................... 16,719 0.9 9,715 0.7
Seminole 2.................... 15,564 0.8 10,363 0.7
Pima.......................... 15,074 0.8 11,722 0.8
Tlingit....................... 14,417 0.7 9,509 0.6
Alaskan Athabaskans........... 14,198 0.7 10,136 0.7
Cheyenne...................... 11,809 0.6 9,918 0.7
Comanche...................... 11,437 0.6 9,037 0.6
Paiute 2...................... 11,369 0.6 9,523 0.6
Osage......................... 10,430 0.5 6,884 0.5
Puget Sound Salish............ 10,384 0.5 6,591 0.4
Yaqui......................... 9,838 0.5 5,197 0.4
1 Any entry with the spelling “Siouan” in the 1990 census was miscoded to Sioux in North Carolina.
2 Reporting and/or processing problems in the 1980 census have affected the data for this tribe.
3 Reporting and/or processing problems in the 1990 census have affected the data for this tribe.
4 Miscoding of entries in the 1980 census for “Lummee,” “Lummi,” “Lumbee,” or “Lumbi” have affected the data for this tribe.
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