US Tribal Governments
tribal-governments
The federally recognized tribes the Bureau of Indian Affairs lists, with the website each publishes.
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 | Share of the cohort | 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
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 402 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 402 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 381 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 402 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 367 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 22 | 0 | |
| RED-11 | Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is? | 1 | 1 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 402 | 3 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 402 | 0 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 227 | 2 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 402 | 2 | |
| RED-5 | Do your PDFs and images have their own rules for search and quoting? | 183 | 1 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 402 | 2 | |
| UND-10 | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 402 | 2 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 174 | 1 |
Common — 90 to 95%
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-13 | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 402 | 0 | |
| EXT-4 | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 402 | 0 | |
| PST-4 | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 402 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 17 | 0 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 402 | 0 |
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 301–400 of 573 · page 4 of 6
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native Village of Point Hope 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/point-hope/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Point Lay 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/point-lay/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Port Graham no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Port Heiden 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/port-heiden); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Port Lions portlionstribe.netblockedwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Ruby 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/ruby/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Saint Michael no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on kawerak.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://kawerak.org/our-region/st-michael/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Savoonga no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on kawerak.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://kawerak.org/our-region/savoonga/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Scammon Bay no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Selawik no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on nwabor.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.nwabor.org/village/selawik/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Shaktoolik no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on kawerak.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://kawerak.org/our-region/shaktoolik/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Shishmaref no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on kawerak.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://kawerak.org/our-region/shishmaref/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Shungnak no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on nwabor.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.nwabor.org/village/shungnak/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of South Naknek no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Native Village of South Naknek (previously listed as South Naknek Village)' | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Stevens 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/stevens-village/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Tanacross 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/tanacross/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Tanana 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/tanana/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Tatitlek tatitlek.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 60 | No | 31 | |
| Native Village of Tazlina tazlinavillage.my.canva.sitewebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Native Village of Teller no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on kawerak.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://kawerak.org/our-region/teller/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Tetlin 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/tetlin/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Tuntutuliak no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Tununak no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Tyonek tyonek.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 41 | Gated | 7 | |
| Native Village of Unalakleet nativevillageofunalakleet.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 64 | No | 23 | |
| Native Village of Unga no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government (Arctic Village and Village of Venetie)' | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of Wales no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on kawerak.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://kawerak.org/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Native Village of White Mountain no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on kawerak.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://kawerak.org/our-region/white-mountain/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah navajo-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nenana Native Association nenananativeassociation.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 30 | Gated | 27 | |
| Newhalen Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on bbna.com, a site that serves several tribes: https://bbna.com/our-communities/tribal-councils/tribal-council-list/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| New Koliganek Village Council no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on bbna.com, a site that serves several tribes: https://bbna.com/our-communities/tribal-councils/tribal-council-list/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| New Stuyahok Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on bbna.com, a site that serves several tribes: https://bbna.com/our-communities/tribal-councils/tribal-council-list/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Newtok Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Nez Perce Tribe nezperce.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Nikolai 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/nikolai/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Ninilchik Village ninilchiktribe-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nisqually Indian Tribe nisqually-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nome Eskimo Community necalaska.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nondalton Tribe 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/nondalton); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Nondalton Tribe (previously listed as Nondalton Village)' | — | No | — | |
| Nooksack Indian Tribe nooksacktribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Noorvik Native Community no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (a page on nwabor.org, a site that serves several tribes: https://www.nwabor.org/village/noorvik/); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming northernarapaho.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 47 | No | 8 | |
| Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana cheyennenation.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 50 | No | 11 | |
| Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California northforkrancheria-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Northway Village northwayvillagecouncil.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 71 | No | 11 | |
| Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation nwbshoshone.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 56 | Gated | 19 | |
| Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan nhbp-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nulato Village nulatotribe.netwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 48 | No | 18 | |
| Nunakauyarmiut Tribe no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Oglala Sioux Tribe oglalalakotanation.netwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico ohkay.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Omaha Tribe of Nebraska omahatribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oneida Indian Nation oneidaindiannation.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Oneida Nation oneida-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Onondaga Nation onondaganation.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Organized Village of Grayling 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/grayling/); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Organized Village of Grayling (aka Holikachuk)' | — | No | — | |
| Organized Village of Kake kake-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Organized Village of Kasaan kasaan.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 52 | No | 28 | |
| Organized Village of Kwethluk no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Organized Village of Saxman saxmantribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 44 | No | 27 | |
| Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council nativecouncil.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Oscarville Traditional Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma omtribe.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 62 | No | 31 | |
| Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma ottawatribe.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah pitu.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; listed by the BIA as 'Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes)' | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada fpst.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pala Band of Mission Indians palatribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Pamunkey Indian Tribe pamunkey.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona pascuayaqui-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California paskenta-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Passamaquoddy Tribe no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website) | — | No | — | |
| Pauloff Harbor Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation, California paumatribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma pawneenation.orgblockedwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Pechanga Band of Indians pechanga-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; listed by the BIA as 'Pechanga Band of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California)' | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pedro Bay Village pedrobaycorp.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 71 | No | 31 | |
| Penobscot Nation penobscotnation.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma peoriatribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Petersburg Indian Association piatribal.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; an Alaska Native entity | 42 | No | 24 | |
| Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California chukchansi-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pilot Station Traditional Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Pinoleville Pomo Nation, California pinoleville-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pitka's Point 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 | — | |
| Pit River Tribe, California pitrivertribe.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high; listed by the BIA as 'Pit River Tribe, California (includes XL Ranch, Big Bend, Likely, Lookout, Montgomery Creek, and Roaring Creek Rancherias)' | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Platinum Traditional Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity | — | No | — | |
| Poarch Band of Creek Indians pci-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana pokagonband-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma ponca-nsn.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ponca Tribe of Nebraska poncatribe-ne.govwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Portage Creek Village no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Portage Creek Village (aka Ohgsenakale)' | — | No | — | |
| Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe pgst.nsn.uswebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 50 | No | 31 | |
| Potter Valley Tribe, California pottervalleytribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 53 | Gated | 12 | |
| Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation pbpindiantribe.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota prairieisland.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Pribilof Islands Aleut Communities of St. Paul & St. George Islands no website on recordno website of its own that we could find (the BIA directory lists no website); an Alaska Native entity; listed by the BIA as 'Pribilof Islands Aleut Communities of St. Paul & St. George Islands (St. George Island and Saint Paul Island)' | — | No | — | |
| Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico puebloofacoma.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 44 | No | 31 | |
| Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico cochiti.orgwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 62 | No | 13 | |
| Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico isletapueblo.comwebsite from the BIA Tribal Leaders Directory; confidence: high | 43 | 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