Several Indian tribe

Indian tribe

In the United States, a Native American tribe is any extant or historical tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Indigenous peoples in the United States...

s within the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 register motor vehicle

Motor vehicle

A motor vehicle or road vehicle is a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not operate on rails, such as trains or trolleys. The vehicle propulsion is provided by an engine or motor, usually by an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor, or some combination of the two, such as hybrid...

s and issue license plates

Vehicle registration plate

A vehicle registration plate is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes. The registration identifier is a numeric or alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies the vehicle within the issuing region's database...

to those vehicles.

The legal status of these plates varies by tribe, with some being recognized by the federal government and others not. Some nations issue plates for both tribal and personal vehicles, while others issue plates only for official tribal vehicles.

Some nations' plates indicate the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 with which they are most closely associated, while others do not. This variation may even exist among the nations associated with one particular state.

Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

• Chickaloon
  Chickaloon, Alaska
  Chickaloon is a census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  : legal status unknown
• Gold Creek-Susitna
  Susitna, Alaska
  Susitna is a census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  : legal status unknown

Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

• Red Lake Indian Reservation
  Red Lake Indian Reservation
  The Red Lake Indian Reservation covers 1,258.62 sq mi in parts of nine counties in northern Minnesota, United States. It is divided into many pieces, although the largest piece is centered about Red Lake, in north-central Minnesota, the largest lake entirely within that state. This section lies...
  
  
• White Earth Indian Reservation
  White Earth Indian Reservation
  The White Earth Indian Reservation is the home to the White Earth Nation, located in northwestern Minnesota. It is the largest Indian reservation in that state...
  
  
• Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
  Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
  Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is an Anishinaabe band located near Cloquet, Minnesota. Their land-base is the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation , located mainly in Carlton and St...
  
  
• Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
  Grand Portage Indian Reservation
  The Grand Portage Indian Reservation is located in Cook County near the tip of Minnesota's Arrowhead Region in the extreme northeast part of the state. The community was considered part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa, but is not a party to the treaties that group signed...
  
  
• Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
  Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
  The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, also known as the Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians or the Leech Lake Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and as Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag Ojibweg in the Ojibwe language, is an Ojibwa tribe located in Minnesota. The tribe boasts 8,861 tribal members as of July, 2007...
  
  

Oklahoma

• Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
• Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
• Caddo Nation of Oklahoma
• Cherokee Nation
  Cherokee Nation
  The Cherokee Nation is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. It was established in the 20th century, and includes people descended from members of the old Cherokee Nation who relocated voluntarily from the Southeast to Indian Territory and Cherokees who...
  
  
• Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
• Citizen Potawatomi Nation
  Citizen Potawatomi Nation
  Citizen Potawatomi Nation are a federally recognized tribe of Potawatomi people located in Oklahoma. The Potawatomi are traditionally an Algonquian-speaking Eastern Woodlands tribe.-History:...
  
  
• Comanche Nation
• Delaware Nation
  Delaware Nation
  The Delaware Nation, sometimes called the Absentee or Western Delaware, is one of two federally recognized tribe of Delaware Indians, along with the Delaware Indians based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma...
  
  
• Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
  Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
  The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma and Missouri.-History:The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is one of three federally recognized Shawnee tribes. They are an Eastern Woodland tribe, who were once nomadic. They originally came from...
  
  
• Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
  Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
  The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is one of two federally recognized Iowa tribes. The other is the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. Traditionally Iowas spoke the Chiwere language, part of the Souian language family...
  
  
• Kaw Nation
• Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
  Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
  The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is one of three federally recognized Kickapoo tribes in the United States. There are also Kickapoo tribes in Kansas, Texas, and Mexico. The Kickapoo are a Woodland tribe, who speak an Algonquian language.-Early history:...
  
  
• Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
• Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
  Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
  The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Miami Indians.-History:The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is Eastern Woodland tribe, who traditionally spoke the Miami-Illinois language, a language of the Algonquin family, but few tribal members speak the language today...
  
  
• Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma
  Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma
  The Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma is the smallest federally recognized tribe in Oklahoma. They are descendants of Captain Jack's band of Modoc people, removed from the West Coast after the Modoc Wars.-Early history:...
  
  
• Muscogee Creek Nation
• Osage Nation
  Osage Nation
  The Osage Nation is a Native American Siouan-language tribe in the United States that originated in the Ohio River valley in present-day Kentucky. After years of war with invading Iroquois, the Osage migrated west of the Mississippi River to their historic lands in present-day Arkansas, Missouri,...
  
  
• Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma
  Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma
  The Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma is one of four federally recognized Native American tribes of Ottawa Indians. The other three tribes, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, are located in...
  
  
• Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians
  Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians
  The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians is a single, federally recognized tribe, located in Oklahoma. The tribe is made up of Otoe and Missouria Indians. Traditionally they spoke the Chiwere language, part of the Souian language family.-Government:...
  
  
• Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
• Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
• Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
  Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
  The Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, also known as the Ponca Nation, is a federally recognized tribe located in Oklahoma. The Ponca traditionally speak the Omaha-Ponca language, part of the Souian language family. Another portion of the people belong to the larger Ponca Tribe of...
  
  
• Quapaw Tribe of Indians
• Sac and Fox Nation
  Sac and Fox Nation
  The Sac and Fox Nation is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sac and Meskwaki Native Americans. They are located in Oklahoma and are predominantly Sac....
  
  
• Shawnee Tribe
  Shawnee Tribe
  The Shawnee Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma.-History:Sometimes known as the "Loyal Shawnee," the Shawnee Tribe is one of three federally recognized Shawnee tribes. They are an Eastern Woodland tribe. They originally came from Ohio and were the last of the Shawnee...
  
  
• Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
  Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
  The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is a federally recognized Seminole tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the largest of the three federally recognized Seminole organizations, which include the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida...
  
  
• Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma
  Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma
  The Seneca–Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma is a federally recognized tribe of Seneca and Cayuga people, based in Oklahoma, United States. They have a tribal jurisdictional area in the northeast corner of Oklahoma are headquartered in Grove, Oklahoma.- History :...
  
  
• United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
• Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie)
• Wyandotte Nation

South Dakota

South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

• Cheyenne River Sioux
  Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
  The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation was created by the United States in 1889 by breaking up the Great Sioux Reservation, following its victory over the Lakota in a series of wars in the 1870s. The reservation covers almost all of Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota...
  
  : official vehicles only; South Dakota
  South Dakota
  South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
  
   Exempt plates with "CRT" prefix.
• Crow Creek Sioux
  Crow Creek Reservation
  The Crow Creek Indian Reservation is located in parts of Buffalo, Hughes, and Hyde counties on the east bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States. It has a land area of 421.658 sq mi and a 2000 census population of 2,225 persons...
  
  
• Flandreau Santee Sioux
  Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
  The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe consists of descendents of the “Mdewakantonwan” people, one of the sub-tribes of the Isanti Dakota originally from central Minnesota....
  
  : official vehicles only; South Dakota Exempt plates with "FST" prefix.
• Lower Brule Sioux
  Lower Brule Indian Reservation
  The Lower Brulé Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation that belongs to the Lower Brulé Lakota Tribe. It is located on the west bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States. It is adjacent to the Crow Creek Indian Reservation...
  
  

Washington

• Puyallup
• Colville
• Quinault
• Muckleshoot

Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

• Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
  Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
  The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are an Ojibwa Native American tribe, with an Indian reservation lying mostly in the Town of Lac du Flambeau in south-western Vilas County, and in the Town of Sherman in south-eastern Iron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin...
  
  
• Menominee
  Menominee
  Some placenames use other spellings, see also Menomonee and Menomonie.The Menominee are a nation of Native Americans living in Wisconsin. The Menominee, along with the Ho-Chunk, are the only tribes that are indigenous to what is now Wisconsin...
  
  
• Oneida
  Oneida tribe
  The Oneida are a Native American/First Nations people and are one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy in the area of upstate New York...
  
  , with variations for different clans