Southwestern Indians include Pima's descended from the Hohokam, who migrated into southern Arizona and grew maize, beans and squash and lived in adobe houses. Northern people, after years of trading with the Hohokam were called Anasazi. They also grew maize, beans, and sqash, and lived in stone on adobe houses built around a central plaza. Their descendants are the the Pueblo Indians. In 1580 the Pueblo's were visited by the Spanish, who tried to impose their rule. The Pueblos rebelled but were not only dominted by the Spanish, but later, by the Mexicans, and the United States. Today these people are the Navajo and some of the Apache Indians. See Apache chiefs Cochise and Geronimo. Apache probably oringinates from Apachu "the enemy", the Zuni name for Navajo. The Kiowa-Apache, Jicarilla, and Lipan were more associated with the Plains Indians.

Yuman speaking Indians include the Havasupai, who farm the floor of the grand canyon, and the Mojave Indians who live along the Colorado River. They raise maize and beans and live in pole and thatched houses.

The Eastern regions of the United Stated and Canada from Minnesoto to Ontario, east to the Atlantic, and south to North Carolina are home to Iroquois, and Algonquin speaking tribes, the Lenape (or Delaware Indians), the Micmac, the Narragansett Indians, the Shawnee, the Potawatomi, Menominee, and the Illinois Indians. These were the hunters who became dependent on deer, nuts, and grains.

The Southeastern region was home to the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, the Creek, the Seminole and the Natchez Indians. The first five were referred to as the five civilized tribes because they imported European imports into their lives. Between 1539 and 1542 thousands of these people died of epidemics introduced by the Spainiard Hernando de Soto who marched his army around the southeast.

The North American Plains Indians include the Blackfoot, the Mandan, and Hidatsa, the Sioux, the Cheyenne, and the Arapaho. Their principal food was the bison until the herds were exterminated in the 1880's. The plains Indians customs are well known because they were invaded by the European settlers in the 19th century. Their customs of the tepee,long feathered headdress, the pipe, costumes and dancing are the Indian sterotype.

The Shoshoni and Comanche moved onto the plains from the valleys west of the Rockies. After 1630 these people took horses from the Spanish ranches in New Mexico and traded them throughout the Plains. The Lakota or Teton Sioux divided into seven tribes, the Oglala, Brule, Miniconjou, Sans Arc, Oohenonpa, and the Hunkpapa. Crazy Horse and Red Cloud were from the Ogala tribe. Chief Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Sioux. See Battle of Little Bighorn.

The Great Basin area were home of the Ute, and the Shoshone. The California tribes include the Klamath, the Modoc, Yorok, and to the north the Pomo, Maidu, Miwok, Patwin, and central to the Wintun tribes.

Plateau tribles include the Nez Perce, Wallawalla, Yakima Indians, the Flathead Indians, Spokan, Okanagon, Cayuse and Katenai. Their life was enriched by annual runs of salmon, and harvest of camas,and tubers and roots.

The northern Great Lakes and Canadian areas include the Cree, Ojibwa, Chippewa, Montagnais,and the Naskapi. The northwestern areas include the Chipewyan, Beaver, Kutchin,Ingalik, Kaska, and the Tanana. The northwest coast area tribes included Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Chinook Indians. They hunted moose and caribou and survived by fishing and trapping.

In Alaksa were the eskimo or the Inuit, the Yupik or Yuit. Distantly related to the Inuit and the Yupik are the Aleuts of the Aleutian Islands.