Civics question 117 of 128

Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

For a complete list of tribes, please visit bia.gov.

Source: official USCIS question list for the 2025 version of the civics test. This site is independent and not affiliated with USCIS.

Background

Naming any one tribe from the official list answers the question, for example Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux, Apache, or Hopi. There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States today, and the list on the test is only a sample of them. Recognition is a legal status rather than a label: a recognized tribe is a sovereign nation with its own government, courts, and authority over its members and land, dealing with Washington on a government-to-government basis. That sovereignty predates the Constitution, which mentions commerce with the tribes in Article I. Nineteenth-century removal policy pushed many nations far from their homelands, most infamously along the Trail of Tears, which is why several tribes with eastern names now have their largest populations in Oklahoma.

This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice to explain the civics fact. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and the official answer above is the one to give at the interview.

Where this question sits

It is part of Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information, inside the American History section of the test.

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