List of U.S. counties with Native American majority populations
The following is a list of United States counties in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Native American (American Indian or Alaska Native), according to data from the 2000 Census. The list below is organized by state and the percentage of each county's population that is Native American is listed in parentheses next to the county's name.
County-equivalents, such as boroughs and census areas in Alaska, are included in this list.
Alaska
- Bethel Census Area (81.9%)
- Dillingham Census Area (70.1%)
- Lake and Peninsula Borough (73.5%)
- Nome Census Area (75.2%)
- North Slope Borough (68.4%)
- Northwest Arctic Borough (82.5%)
- Wade Hampton Census Area (92.5%)
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (70.9%)
Arizona
- Apache County (76.9%)
Montana
- Big Horn County (59.2%)
- Glacier County (61.8%)
- Roosevelt County (55.8%)
Nebraska
- Thurston County (52.0%)
New Mexico
- McKinley County (74.7%)
North Dakota
- Rolette County (73.0%)
- Sioux County (84.6%)
South Dakota
- Bennett County (52.1%)
- Buffalo County (81.6%)
- Corson County (60.8%)
- Dewey County (74.2%)
- Mellette County (52.4%)
- Oglala Lakota County (94.2%)
- Todd County (85.6%)
- Ziebach County (72.3%)
Utah
- San Juan County (55.7%)
Wisconsin
- Menominee County (87.3%)
National rankings
- Shannon County (94.20%)
- Wade Hampton Census Area (92.53%)
- Menominee County (87.26%)
- Todd County (85.60%)