Native Voices Endowment

Tribal Eligibility

All forty tribes who were members of the Circle of Tribal Advisors of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial (COTA) at the conclusion of the 2003-2006 bicentennial commemoration are eligible, whether federally recognized or unrecognized.

Eligible Tribes:
Absentee Shawnee Tribe • Oklahoma
Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation • Wyoming
Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation • Montana
Blackfeet Nation • Montana
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe • South Dakota
Cheyenne-Arapahoe Tribes • Oklahoma
Chinook Indian Tribe • Washington
Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy Reservation • Montana
Citizen Potawatomi Nation • Oklahoma
Clatsop/Nehalem Confederated Tribes • Oregon
Coeur D'Alene Tribe • Idaho
Comanche Nation • Oklahoma
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation • Washington
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation • Washington
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon • Oregon
Confederated Tribes of the Salish, Kootenai & Pend d’Oreille • Montana
Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation • Oregon
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation • Oregon
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation • Oregon
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation • Washington
Cowlitz Indian Tribe • Washington
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe • South Dakota
Crow Nation • Montana
Delaware Nation • Oklahoma
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma • Oklahoma
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe • South Dakota
Gros Ventre & Assiniboine Tribes of the Fort Belknap Reservation • Montana
Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska • Kansas
Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma • Oklahoma
Kaw Nation • Oklahoma
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma • Oklahoma
Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas • Kansas
Kiowa Indian Tribe • Oklahoma
Kootenai Tribe • Idaho
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians • Montana
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe • South Dakota
Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation • North Dakota
Monacan Indian Nation • Virginia
Nez Perce Tribe • Idaho
Northern Cheyenne Tribe • Montana
Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation • Utah
Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation • South Dakota
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska • Nebraska
Osage Tribe • Oklahoma
Otoe-Missouria Tribe • Oklahoma
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma • Oklahoma
Ponca Tribe of Indians • Oklahoma
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska • Nebraska
Quinault Tribe • Washington
Rosebud Sioux Tribe • South Dakota
Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma • Oklahoma
Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri • Kansas
Santee Sioux Nation • Nebraska
Shawnee Tribe • Oklahoma
Shoalwater Bay Tribe • Washington
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation • Wyoming
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation • Idaho
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation • South Dakota
Spirit Lake Tribe • North Dakota
Spokane Tribe • Washington
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe • North Dakota
Trenton Service Area (political subdivision of Turtle Mountain Chippewa) • North Dakota
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians • North Dakota
Wanapum Band • Washington
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska • Nebraska
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota • South Dakota