Native American Tribes Crossword Puzzle

About the Native American Tribes Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle features names of Native American nations and tribes from regions across the United States, including the Navajo, Cherokee, Lakota, and Wampanoag. Tribal histories, cultures, and present-day communities are distinct, and this word list is a sampling rather than a complete account. It may interest students studying U.S. history and geography, as well as anyone learning about the many Indigenous nations of North America.

This crossword draws on 42 clues about Native American Tribes. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Northeastern people of the Wabanaki Confederacy (7 letters)
• •Southeastern people sharing a name with a Carolina river (7 letters)
• •Plains people renowned for their horse culture (8 letters)
• •Confederacy traditionally uniting six Indigenous nations (13 letters)
• •North Carolina tribe, the state's largest (6 letters)
• •Idaho nation whose flight toward Canada ended in 1877 (8 letters)
• •Maine people sharing a name with a bay (13 letters)
• •Westernmost of the original five confederated nations (6 letters)

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