Native Americans in the United States

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Native Americans

Total population
American Indian and Alaska Native (2010 Census Bureau)[1] One race: 2,932,248 are registered In combination with one or more of the other races listed: 2,288,331 Total: 5,220,579
Regions with significant populations
Predominantly in the Western United States; small but significant communities also exist in the Eastern United States
Languages
Native American languages (including Navajo, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Dakota, Western Apache, Keres, Cherokee, Zuni, Ojibwe, O'odham[2]), English, Spanish, French, Russian
Religion
Native American Church Protestant Roman Catholic Russian Orthodox Traditional Ceremonial Ways (Unique to Specific Tribe or Band)
Related ethnic groups
Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Metis, Mestizo, Native American Latin Americans

In the United States, Native Americans (also known as American Indians, Amerindians, Indigenous Americans or simply Indians; see §Terminology differences) are people descended from the Pre-Columbian indigenous population of the land within the country's modern boundaries. These peoples were composed of numerous distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups, and many of these groups survive intact today as partially sovereign nations.