Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

Why this is the answer

Any tribe on the official list of 25 is a correct answer. The list runs alphabetically from Apache, Blackfeet and Cayuga through Navajo, Pueblo and Seminole to Teton and Tuscarora. For the complete list of tribes, USCIS points to bia.gov, the website of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Native Americans, also called American Indians, lived in North America for thousands of years before European settlers arrived. Each tribe has its own social and political system, and cultures differ from one tribe to another, with different languages, beliefs, stories, music and foods. Some settled in villages and farmed; others moved often, hunting and gathering. Today there are more than 500 American Indian tribes in the United States. Over time the federal government signed treaties that moved many tribes onto reservations, which are recognized as domestic, dependent nations. Several names on the list also appear in one of the hardest chapters of the 1800s. Between the 1830s and the 1850s, people from five nations in the southern United States, the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw, were forced from their homelands to land in the Louisiana Territory. Thousands died of disease and starvation on the way, which is why it is called the Trail of Tears. Cherokee, Seminole and Choctaw are all on the list. The best strategy is to choose one or two names you can pronounce comfortably and say them out loud while you study. Cherokee and Navajo are easy to remember and appear on both the 2008 and 2025 lists. Be careful with older materials. The 2008 list included Arawak, Iroquois and Inuit, and none of the three is on the 2025 list. The 2025 study guide still prints those older names in a sidebar. USCIS says it knows there may be other correct answers, but it encourages applicants to answer with the ones on the list. For the 2025 test, the safe choice is a name from the current 25.