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25 best known indigenous peoples in the Americas

25 indigenous peoples, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The indigenous peoples

  1. 1Mapuche
  2. 2Inuit
  3. 3Cherokee
  4. 4Apache
  5. 5Navajo
  6. 6Maya
  7. 7Aleuts
  8. 8Quechua
  9. 9Sioux
  10. 10Cree
  11. 11Aymara
  12. 12Comanche
  13. 13Hopi
  14. 14Wyandot
  15. 15Cheyennes
  16. 16Guaraní
  17. 17Ojibwe
  18. 18Kalinago
  19. 19Choctaw
  20. 20Lenape
  21. 21Puebloan
  22. 22Shawnee
  23. 23Mi’kmaw
  24. 24Abenaki
  25. 25Chickasaw

How well known each people is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). Peoples from Wikidata: indigenous peoples with articles in 18 or more Wikipedia editions and other ethnic groups with 45 or more; peoples of the past, umbrella groupings and the nations a sovereign state is named for are left out. Indigenous: an instance of indigenous people (Wikidata Q103817) or a kind of it. A people is a point at the centre of its homeland: Wikidata’s, else that of its language (Glottolog), else one set by hand for a few well-known peoples; it marks where a people lives, not a border. Names in the people’s own language count as answers (“Diné” for the Navajo). Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 25 best known indigenous peoples in the Americas, 25 indigenous peoples: each one marked on the globe

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