US Tribal Governments

tribal-governments

The federally recognized tribes the Bureau of Indian Affairs lists, with the website each publishes.

Index 12.0 · scanned 2026-10-11 · up to 32 URLs per site · 573 organizations · 402 scanned (70.2% coverage) · 154 with no published URL · scored as government

Median score 46 across 402 sites

Middle half 28–57 spread around the median

Full range 28–73 lowest to highest

Gated 227 of 402 block AI crawlers outright

Middle of 14 cohorts. All cohorts 50 · best cohort 58.

Where this list came from

The source, and how we filtered it

Source	Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, with the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory, Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Department of the Interior (2026-01-30)
License	Works of the United States federal government. Not subject to domestic copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105). Where a website came from the CISA registry (public domain) or Wikidata (CC0 1.0) the row says so.
How we filtered it	The roster is the entries of the Federal Register notice of 2026-01-30 (91 FR 4102, FR Doc 2026-01899): 348 entities in the contiguous states and 229 lines for Alaska, 577 lines in all. Four Alaska lines only say 'see' another entry (Arctic Village, the Village of Venetie, St. George Island and the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island are the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government and the Pribilof Islands Aleut Communities of St. Paul & St. George Islands), so they are not separate governments and are left out, which leaves 573. The address is the `website` field of the same entity in the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory (the BIA's own feature service, last edited 2026-10-09), joined on the entity's name. An address that sits on a page of a site that serves several tribes (Tanana Chiefs Conference alone is the 'website' of twenty-five villages), a social or hosting platform, or a body that is not the tribe, is not the tribe's website and is not used; the row then takes a registry .gov domain or a Wikidata website that matches the tribe's name, and otherwise stays, blank, with the reason.
Instead of	NCAI's tribal directory, which is not machine-readable or freely licensed, and Wikipedia's list of tribes, which is a compilation of the same notice.
Built	2026-10-11

The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.

Distribution

Where the 402 sites land

Grade	Sites	Share
Weak	166	41.3%
Adequate	80	19.9%
Not ready	156	38.8%

By dimension

What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension

The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.

Dimension	Mean share earned	Mean
#1 · Reach These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information.		65%
#2 · Read AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it?		38%
#3 · Understand Does a machine know who and what you are?		25%
#4 · Act Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget.		58%

How much of each site we read

The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 11, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.

3 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.

Where this cohort fails

8 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes

Universal — nobody passes these 8 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more

Test	What it asks	Failing	Of	Points
EXT-11	Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question?	100.0%	402	0
EXT-12	Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes?	100.0%	402	0
EXT-14	Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools?	100.0%	381	0
EXT-16	Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run?	100.0%	402	0
EXT-17	Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records?	100.0%	367	0
EXT-2	Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them?	100.0%	22	0
RED-11	Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is?	100.0%	1	1
UND-2	Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish?	100.0%	402	3

Near-universal — 95% and above 7 checks · 4 of them worth 2 points or more

Test	What it asks	Failing	Of	Points
PST-2	Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content?	99.8%	402	0
RED-10	Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages?	99.6%	227	2
RED-12	If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it?	99.5%	402	2
RED-5	Do your PDFs and images have their own rules for search and quoting?	99.5%	183	1
UND-1	Does your site say clearly who you are?	98.8%	402	2
UND-10	Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere?	98.3%	402	2
UND-5	Does the author label in your page code point to that person?	97.7%	174	1

Common — 90 to 95% 5 checks

Test	What it asks	Failing	Of
EXT-13	Can an assistant ask your site a question directly?	94.5%	402
EXT-4	Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool?	94.5%	402
PST-4	Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read?	94.5%	402
EXT-7	If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such?	94.1%	17
EXT-1	Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants?	90.5%	402

Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.

Every site

Every 573, named, with a report for each

Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.

Showing 101–200 of 573 · page 2 of 6

Site	Score	Gated	Pages read
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma estoo-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming easternshoshone.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	62	No	32
Egegik Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on lakeandpen.com, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.lakeandpen.com/village-egegik); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Eklutna Native Village eklutna-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	33	Gated	1
Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria, California elemindiancolony.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	48	No	29
Elk Valley Rancheria, California elk-valley.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	67	No	32
Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevada elyshoshonetribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	60	No	18
Emmonak Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the City of Emmonak's site: https://cityofemmonak.org/community-1); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California enterpriserancheria.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	58	No	32
Evansville Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on tananachiefs.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.tananachiefs.org/about/communities/evansville/); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Evansville Village (aka Bettles Field)'	—	No	—
Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians ebki-nsn.govthe BIA directory has no usable website (a page on sctca.net, a site that serves several tribes); .gov domain ebki-nsn.gov registered in the CISA registry to a matching name; confidence: medium; listed by the BIA as 'Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians (previously listed as Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, California)'	33	Gated	1
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, California gratonrancheria.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	49	No	32
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota fsst-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin fcpotawatomi.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	67	No	32
Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana ftbelknap.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	46	Gated	19
Fort Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort Bidwell Reservation of California no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on caltribalfamilies.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://caltribalfamilies.org/places/fort-bidwell-indian-community/)	—	No	—
Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Reservation, California fortindependence.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	46	Gated	31
Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregon fmpst.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	40	Gated	32
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona fmyn.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	40	Gated	32
Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California & Nevada fortmojaveindiantribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	48	No	1
Fort Sill--Chiricahua--Warm Springs--Apache Tribe fortsillapache-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; listed by the BIA as 'Fort Sill--Chiricahua--Warm Springs--Apache Tribe (previously listed as Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma)'	28	Gated	1
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona gilariver.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	53	No	32
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan gtbindians.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	63	No	32
Greenville Rancheria grth.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	57	No	18
Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on caltribalfamilies.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://caltribalfamilies.org/places/grindstone-indian-rancheria/)	—	No	—
Guidiville Rancheria of California guidiville.govthe BIA directory has no usable website (a page on caltribalfamilies.org, a site that serves several tribes); .gov domain guidiville.gov registered in the CISA registry to a matching name; confidence: medium	33	Gated	1
Gulkana Village Council gulkanacouncil.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	42	Gated	32
Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, California hpultribe-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan hannahville.netunreachablewebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	—	No	—
Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation, Arizona theofficialhavasupaitribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	64	No	25
Healy Lake Village healylake.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	43	Gated	32
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin ho-chunknation.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	59	No	31
Hoh Indian Tribe hohtribe-nsn.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	33	Gated	1
Holy Cross Tribe no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on tananachiefs.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.tananachiefs.org/about/communities/holy-cross/); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Hoonah Indian Association hoonahindianassociation.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	52	No	19
Hoopa Valley Tribe, California hoopa-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Hopi Tribe of Arizona hopi-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, California hoplandtribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	33	Gated	1
Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians maliseets.netwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	65	No	32
Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona hualapai-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Hughes Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on tananachiefs.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.tananachiefs.org/about/communities/hughes/); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Huslia Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on tananachiefs.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.tananachiefs.org/about/communities/huslia/); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Hydaburg Cooperative Association hydaburgtribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	58	No	1
Igiugig Village igiugig.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	33	Gated	1
Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, California iipaynationofsantaysabel-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, California no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on sctca.net, a site that serves several tribes: https://sctca.net/inaja-cosmit-band-of-indians/)	—	No	—
Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope icas-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	33	Gated	1
Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California ionemiwok.netwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	49	No	32
Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska iowatribeofkansasandnebraska.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	46	Gated	32
Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma iowanation.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	58	No	32
Iqugmiut Traditional Council no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Ivanof Bay Tribe ivanofbaytribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	69	No	14
Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians jacksoncasino.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned	51	No	32
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe jamestowntribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	47	Gated	31
Jamul Indian Village of California jamulindianvillage.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	46	Gated	13
Jena Band of Choctaw Indians jenachoctaw.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	56	No	25
Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico jicarillaoga.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	63	No	2
Kaguyak Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona kaibabpaiute-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned	28	Gated	1
Kaktovik Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on north-slope.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.north-slope.org/our-communities/kaktovik/); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Kaktovik Village (aka Barter Island)'	—	No	—
Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation kalispeltribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	61	No	24
Karuk Tribe karuk.uswebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	48	Gated	32
Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria, California stewartspoint.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned	62	No	1
Kasigluk Traditional Elders Council no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Kaw Nation, Oklahoma kawnation.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	33	Gated	1
Kenaitze Indian Tribe kenaitze.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	45	Gated	32
Ketchikan Indian Community kictribe.orgblockedwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare)	—	No	—
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan kbic-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Kialegee Tribal Town kialegeetribal.yourwebsitespace.comthe BIA directory has no usable website (the BIA directory lists no website); website from Wikidata (P856); confidence: medium	54	No	1
Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas kickapootexas.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	45	Gated	31
Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas ktik-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma kickapootribeofoklahoma.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	61	No	32
King Island Native Community kingislandnativecommunity.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	52	Gated	7
King Salmon Tribe no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Kiowa Tribe kiowatribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; listed by the BIA as 'Kiowa Tribe (previously listed as Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma)'	56	No	32
Klamath Tribes klamathtribes.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	40	No	32
Klawock Cooperative Association no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria kletseldehe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; listed by the BIA as 'Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria (previously listed as Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians)'	60	No	32
Knik Tribe kniktribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	60	No	32
Koi Nation of Northern California koinationsonoma.comblockedwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; not measured: HTTP 403	—	No	—
Kokhanok Village kokhanok.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity	38	Gated	19
Kootenai Tribe of Idaho kootenai.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	43	Gated	21
Koyukuk Native Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on tananachiefs.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.tananachiefs.org/about/communities/koyukuk/); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin lco-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin ldftribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	48	No	1
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan lvd-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, California lajolla-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian Reservation, California lptribe.netwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	33	Gated	1
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada lvpaiutetribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	67	No	9
Levelock Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on lakeandpen.com, a site that serves several tribes: https://lakeandpen.com/levelock); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Lime Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity	—	No	—
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan lrboi-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	28	Gated	1
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana montanalittleshelltribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	63	No	10
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan ltbbodawa-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	33	Gated	1
Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe lppsr.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned	59	No	7
Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians, California loscoyotestribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	56	No	6
Louden Tribe loudentribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Louden Tribe (previously listed as Galena Village (aka Louden Village))'	44	Gated	32
Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada paiutetribelovelock.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	42	Gated	22
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota lowerbrulesiouxtribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	67	No	31
Lower Elwha Tribal Community elwha.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high	67	No	32

Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Data: sites.csv · checks.csv · summary.json