Theme

Silver structure, a foundation for your own judgment.

Motion

Credits

Credits

Every nation on this site, by its own name, and everyone whose published work these pages stand on.

Nations

Africa

Alaska, Hawaiʻi and the US Pacific

Amazonia and lowland South America

Asia

Canada

Central America

Central and Southern Mexico

Northern Mexico and the US Southwest

Oceania, Aotearoa and Australia

The Andes

The Arctic, northern Europe and Russia

The Caribbean, Trinidad and the Guianas

US East and Southeast

US Plains and Midwest

US West and Pacific Northwest

Publishers

Nations' own sites, governments and representative bodies: Académie des Langues Kanak, ʻAha Pūnana Leo, Ainu Association of Hokkaido, Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Anishinabek Nation, Associação Floresta Protegida, Blackfeet Nation, Blood Tribe (Kainai), Cahuilla Band of Indians, Calista Corporation, Catawba Nation, Cayuga Nation, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Cherokee Nation, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Chiricahua Apache Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Cocopah Indian Tribe, Comanche Nation, Comissão Guarani Yvyrupa, Confederación Indígena Tayrona, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Congrès Mondial Amazigh / Amazigh World Congress, Conseil de la Nation Atikamekw, Conselho Indígena de Roraima, Council of the Haida Nation, Crow Tribe Executive Branch, Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, Dene Nation, Department of Chamorro Affairs, Government of Guam, Doyon Foundation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Endorois Welfare Council, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Forest County Potawatomi Community, Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Fort Sill Apache Tribe, Garo Hills Autonomous District Council, Gila River Indian Community, Gitxsan Huwilp Government, Government of the Republic of Nauru, Government of Tokelau, Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) / Cree Nation Government, Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, Gwich'in Council International, Havasupai Tribe, Heiltsuk Tribal Council, Ho-Chunk Nation, Hokotehi Moriori Trust, Hoopa Valley Tribe, Hualapai Tribe, Iḷisaġvik College, Innu Nation, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, iTaukei Affairs Board, iTaukei Land Trust Board, Kadazan Dusun Cultural Association Sabah, Karuk Tribe, Kashia Band of Pomo Indians, Kenaitze Indian Tribe, Khanty Mansi Mir (joint editorial office of the Khanty Yasang and Luima Seripos newspapers), Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council, Kiowa Tribe, Ktunaxa Nation Council, Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn (Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative), Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation, Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation, Lipan Apache Tribe, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Lummi Nation, Makah Tribe, Makivvik, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Métis National Council, Metlakatla Indian Community, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, Morongo Band of Mission Indians, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Musqueam Indian Band, NANA Regional Corporation, Narragansett Indian Tribe, Nation Wendat (Wendake), Native Village of Eyak, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council (Legislative Branch), Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), Nez Perce Tribe, Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust, Nisg̱a’a Lisims Government, Northern Arapaho Tribe, Northwest Indian College, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Nunatsiavut Government, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Ogiek Peoples' Development Program (OPDP), Okanagan Nation Alliance, Oneida Indian Nation, Onondaga Nation, Oqaasileriffik (Language Secretariat of Greenland), Organización Gonawindúa Tayrona, Organized Village of Kasaan, Osage Nation, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Pamunkey Indian Tribe, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik (Pleasant Point), Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Piikani Nation, Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Pueblo of Acoma, Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku, Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Quinault Indian Nation, RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East), Red Lake Nation, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Saami Council (Sámiráđđi), Sac and Fox Nation, Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Sámediggi (Sámi Parliament of Finland), Sámediggi (Sámi Parliament of Norway), Santa Clara Pueblo, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Seminole Tribe of Florida, Seneca Nation of Indians, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Shinnecock Indian Nation, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, Siksika Nation, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Six Nations of the Grand River, South Australian Native Title Services, South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Squamish Nation, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, Taos Pueblo, Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou, Ten Tribes Partnership, The Chickasaw Nation, The Hopi Tribe, Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, Tiwi Land Council, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc, Tohono O’odham Nation, Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy, Torres Strait Regional Authority, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Tsuut’ina Nation, Tulalip Tribes, Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, Tuscarora Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden in Suriname (VIDS), Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, Waikato-Tainui, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, Yawuru (Nyamba Buru Yawuru), Yurok Tribe.

Governments, national registries and statistics offices: Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG), Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias (AGN), Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador, Bathurst Regional Council, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Caribbean Court of Justice, City of Saskatoon, City of Sydney (Sydney Barani), CNMI Carolinian Affairs Office, Cook Islands Statistics Office, Cook Islands Tourism Corporation, Council of Indigenous Peoples, Taiwan, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Daily News, Government of Botswana, DANE (National Administrative Department of Statistics, Colombia), Department of Arts and Culture, Government of Meghalaya, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, India, Department of Public Information, Government of Guyana, Directorate of Information and Public Relations, Government of Assam, Division of Culture, Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Dr. Ramdayal Munda Tribal Welfare Research Institute, Jharkhand, Electoral Office, Commonwealth of Dominica, Fiji Government, Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (Victoria), Government of Belize Press Office, Government of Meghalaya, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation, Government of the Northwest Territories, Executive and Indigenous Affairs, Government of Western Australia, Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP), Direction Régionale de Souss Massa, Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP), Morocco, Hornbill Festival, Institut de la statistique et des études économiques Nouvelle-Calédonie (ISEE), Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC), Panama, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas de Chile, Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice, Japan, Kenya News Agency, Kosrae Island Resource Management Authority, Legal Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia, Legislative Reference Bureau, State of Hawaiʻi, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board, Ministère de la Culture, Direction des affaires culturelles de Guyane, Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, Dirección de Poblaciones, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios, Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio (Chile), Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile, Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador, Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública, Gobierno de Chile, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, Gobierno de Chile, Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Government of Guyana, Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of iTaukei Affairs (tabled in the Parliament of Fiji), Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, Mizoram Legislative Assembly, Montana Governor's Office of Indian Affairs, Nagaland State Portal, Government of Nagaland, National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities, Nepal, National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago, Nauru Bureau of Statistics, New Mexico Legislature, New Zealand Ministry of Education (Tāhūrangi), Niue Statistics Office, North Carolina Department of Administration, Commission of Indian Affairs, North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, Odisha State Tribal Museum (SCSTRTI, Government of Odisha), Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (Australian Government), Órgano Electoral Plurinacional de Bolivia, Fuente Directa, Palau Visitors Authority, Parc amazonien de Guyane, Parks Australia, President's Secretariat, India, Press Information Department, Government of Pakistan, Prime Minister's Office, Government of India, Prime Minister's Office of Denmark (Statsministeriet), Protected Areas Commission, Guyana, Provincial Government of Benguet, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Radio Nepal, Rotorua Lakes Council, Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Secretaría de Cultura, Sistema de Información Cultural (SIC), Gobierno de México, Secretaría de Cultura, Sistema de Información Cultural (SIC), with station information from INPI, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, via U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Service public de la Polynésie française (DGEN), Sistema de Información Cultural, Secretaría de Cultura (Mexico), Sonoma County Regional Parks, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), State Library of Queensland, State Library of South Australia, Tāoga Niue (Government of Niue), Te Fare Tauhiti Nui, Maison de la Culture de Tahiti, Te Kāhui Whakatau (Treaty Settlements), New Zealand Government, Tonga Statistics Department, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. National Park Service, National Park of American Samoa, USDA Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Utah Division of State History, History to Go, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

UN bodies and international organizations: Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Commonwealth Local Government Forum, Cultural Survival, Cultural Survival (by the Hai//om Community San Council), Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas, FAOLEX, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Forest Peoples Programme, ICCA Registry (UNEP-WCMC), Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Venezuela, Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs), Minority Rights Group, Pastoralist Communication Initiative, Pueblo Indígena Uwottüja, published by the Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela, Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNPFII), Waan Aelõñ in Majel (WAM).

Museums, universities and research: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Arctic Anthropology blog, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Australian National University, Banglapedia, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, CNRS Éditions (OpenEdition Books), Culture and the Mind project, University of Sheffield, DIPALICORI, Universidad de Costa Rica, Fenno-Ugria Foundation, Guampedia, Inalco (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales), Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie, Universität Bonn, Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (republishing Conselho Indigenista Missionário), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC), Journal of Pacific Archaeology, La Biennale di Venezia, L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde, Université Laval (CEFAN), Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawai'i Press, Lex, Danmarks Nationalleksikon, Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, MSH Mondes (CNRS and Université Paris Nanterre), Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Namibian Journal of Environment, OsloMet (Oslo Metropolitan University), River Rights project, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies), Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of the American Indian and Smithsonian Latino Center), Smithsonian Magazine (Smithsonian Institution), Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (American Indian magazine), South African History Online, Tagai State College (Queensland Department of Education), Talloires Network of Engaged Universities (Tufts University), The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire (Institute of the Estonian Language archive), The Rotuma Website, University of Hawai'i, Tripura University, Tun Jugah Foundation, Unicode Consortium, Unidiversidad, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (from Télam), Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Dirección General de Investigación, Université Laval, CEFAN: L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde, Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park, Yale Environment 360, Yale School of the Environment.

Not yet classified: Casa Civil da Presidência da República, Governo do Brasil, Kara-Tunga (partner of Cross Cultural Foundation Uganda), Mongabay, Quadratín México (republished Procuraduría Agraria bulletin), The Namibian.

People

Compiled and edited by ZOTHEOS. Founder: David Garcia.

Method, figures, fonts

Compiled with AI assistance from published sources. Automated checks match evidence phrases; source and meaning reviews are recorded separately. A person check is claimed only when a dated person-check receipt exists. Corrections and removal requests from any nation are honored.

Global figures: United Nations, World Bank.

Fonts: Instrument Serif, DM Sans and JetBrains Mono, with Tinos, Noto Sans, Cousine, Noto Sans Cherokee, Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal, Noto Sans Devanagari and Noto Sans Tifinagh for letters the brand faces lack. All self-hosted under the SIL Open Font License. No letter in a name is ever changed to fit a font.

Verifier: ZOTHEOS-nations-verifier, Python, run weekly through GitHub Actions.