The Lone Wolf Band of Cherokee Indians
Indiana's Cherokee people.

THE INDIANS OF INDIANA

The State of Indiana was named for Indians. Indians occupied a vast majority of Indiana. At the close of the Revolutionary was it was estimated that 20,000 Indians lived her. Most of those lived in the northern parts of the State, in the St. Joseph, Wabash and Maumee valleys. In those days the state were occupied by the Potawatomi, the Miami, the Wea, the Shawnee and the Delaware.

Today, the 2000 Census shows that there are 61,933 Indians living in Indiana. This includes 6 tribes that were at one time or still is native to Indiana. This total is only those who registered in the 2000 Census. How many people of Indian blood that did not register in the Census is unknown, but it is believed that there are at least 1,000, if not more.

The following people and their tribal affiliation were shown to occupy Indiana in the 2000 Census.

Blackfeet	1,625	Seminole	168	Navajo	381	Lumbee	139
Iroquois	603	Miami	12,000	Shawnee	15000	Potawatomi	597
Delaware	147	Kickapoo	4,000	Wyndot	8,000	Cherokee	15,000
Sioux	1,196	Pueblo	156	Osage	133	Ottawa	122
Choctaw	238	Apache	786	Chyenne	150	Chickasaw	122
Chippewa	150	Comanche	130	Cree	123	Creek	254
Wea	1,000

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