Some Principal Native American Tribes in the United States and Canada with customs, myths, and games for Kids and Teachers Illustration

Some Principal
Indian Tribes & Nations
Native Americans for Kids

Learn about Native American nations and tribes, customs and manners, myths and legends, and daily life in olden times for kids and teachers.

Northeast Region

Northeast Native Americans Daily Life for Kids

Iroquois Nations Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids

Ojibwa/Chippewa Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids

Lenape/Delaware Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids

The Invisible Warrior (Ojibwa Cinderella PowerPoint)

Wise Owl (Iroquois Creation Myth)

Southeast Region

Southeast Native Americans Daily Life for Kids

Seminole Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids

Cherokee Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids

Cherokee Origin Story - Ye ho waah (story)

Alibamu, Arkansas, Caddo, Catawba, Cherokee,
Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Mississippians, Natchez, Powhatan

Plains Region

Plains People Native Americans Daily Life for Kids

Plains People - Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids

Sioux Nation Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids

The Clever Coyote (Comanche Buffalo Myth)

Arapahoe, Arikara, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Iowa, Kansas, Kiowa, Lakota, Mandan, Omaha, Osage, Oto, Pawnee, Ponca, Sioux (Dakota), Wichita

Southwest Region

Southwest Native Americans Daily Life for Kids

Anasazi

Pueblo

Hopi

Apache

Navajo

Child and Water and Little Blue Rock (Apache Myth)

Pueblo People: (Anasazi)
Acoma, Cochiti, Hopi, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Dimingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni

Apache, Navajo, Papago, Pima, Ute

Pacific Northwest Coastal Region

Pacific Northwest Native Americans Daily Life for Kids

Story: How Raven Stole Crow's Potlatch

Plateau Non-Coastal Region

Plateau Region Native Americans Daily Life for Kids

Nez Perce and many other tribes

California Region

California Native Americans - Daily Life for Kids

Chumash, Diegueno, Hokan, Kamia, Penutian, Miwok,
Mohave, Wintun, Yuma

The Arctic & Far North Region

Far North Native Americans - Daily Life for Kids

Alaskan Natives, Central Canada First Nations, Cree, Arctic Inuit, Northern Algonquians, Kutchin

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