Native American Cultures, 1500 CE 165˚W 135˚W 105˚W 75˚W 45˚W Inupiaq 60˚N Yup’ik Aleut Athabascan Gwich’in Inuvialuit Alutiiq Chugach Hare Han Dogrib Inuit Gulf Tutchone of Alaska Kaska Inuit Tlingit Tahltan Slave Hudson Nisga’a Denesuline Bay Tsimshian Naskapi Halda Chilcotin Innu Beothuk Haisla Cree (Montagnais) Heiltsuk Shuswap Cree Kwakwaka’wakw 45˚N Nuu-chah-nulth Blackfoot Anishinaabe Mi’kmaq Lummi Atikamekw Maliseet Pacific Makah Salish Passamaquoddy Ocean Chinook Yakama Assiniboine Algonquian Penobscot Nez Perce Abenaki Siletz Mandan Ottawa Huron Massachuset Siuslaw UmatillaFlathead Ojibwa Umpqua Crow Hidatsa Sauk Haudenosaunee Wampanoag Yurok Paiute Cheyenne Menominee Lenape Narraganset Hupa Klamath Fox Potawatomi Lakota Dakota Erie Susquehannock Culture Areas Wintu Modoc Comanche (Sioux) Miami Pomo Shoshone Ute Arapaho Ofo Powhatan Arctic Miwok Pawnee Illini Atlantic Yokut Querechos Shawnee Paiute Dine Tamaroa Tuscarora Subarctic Salinan Hopi Ocean Chumash (Navajo) Osage Akimel Kiowa Cherokee Plains Luiseño Pueblo Yamasee 30˚N O’odham Wichita Chickasaw Tohono Zuni Cheraw Eastern Woodlands O’odham Tunica Congaree Opata Apache Caddo Choctaw Creek Cochimi Southwest Natchez Timucua Concho Houma Ais Yaqui Southeast Rarámuri CalusaTequesta Coahuiltec Gulf of Great Basin Mexico Tro pic of Ciboney Cancer Taino Arawak Northwest Coast Wixárika Tamaulipec Chichimecas Plateau Purépecha AZTEC 15˚N California EMPIRE Maya Caribbean Mixtec Sea Mesoamerica N Zapotec Mosquito Pipil Lenca Caribbean 0 1000 mi 0 1500 km This map is a representation of Native American groups starting from the time of European contact around 1500 CE, and for a period thereafter. It is not comprehensive, and those nations shown may have grown, diminished, or changed location over time..