Listed below are the tribes and communities represented in the collection, as well as a list of where hair was collected. Please note that tribal affiliations are transcribed directly from the collections documentation and may contain misspellings, outdated and/or offensive tribal names.
Lists of Tribal Affiliations and Sites of Collection
Tribal Affiliations as Transcribed
| Acoma |
| Aleut |
| Apache |
| Arapaho |
| Arikara |
| Assiniboine |
| Bannock |
| Blackfoot |
| Chemehuevi |
| Cherokee |
| Cheyenne River Sioux |
| Cheyenne |
| Chippewa |
| Choctaw |
| Comanche |
| Concow |
| Copper River Indians |
| Cree |
| Creek |
| Crow |
| Digger |
| Eel River |
| Eskimo |
| Flathead |
| Fox; Sauk |
| Gros Ventre |
| Hoopa |
| Hopi |
| Inuit |
| Isleta |
| Jemez |
| Karok |
| Kiowa |
| Klamath |
| Kodiak |
| Laguna |
| Maidu |
| Mandan |
| Mission |
| Miwok |
| Miwok; Yosemite |
| Modoc |
| Mojave |
| Mono |
| Navajo |
| Nez Percé |
| Nisqually |
| Oglala Sioux |
| Omaha |
| Oneida |
| Otoe |
| Ottawa |
| Paiute |
| Papago |
| Pawnee |
| Pima |
| Pitt River |
| Pomo |
| Ponca |
| Potawatomi |
| Pueblo |
| Puyallup |
| Quinleute |
| San Felipe |
| San Ildefonso |
| San Juan |
| Sandia |
| Santa Ana |
| Santa Clara |
| Santo Domingo |
| Seminole |
| Shoshone |
| Siletz |
| Sioux |
| Snohomish |
| Snoqualmie |
| Suquamish |
| Swinomish |
| Tana |
| Taos |
| Tesuque |
| Tewa |
| Tulalip |
| Ukie |
| Umpqua |
| Uncompahgre |
| Ute |
| Wailaki |
| Walapai |
| Washoe |
| Wichita |
| Winnebago |
| Wintun |
| Yankton |
| Yuma |
| Zia |
| Zuñi |
List of Collecting Locations in the U.S.
| U.S. Boarding Schools or Possible Boarding School Locations | Number of Individuals Represented |
|---|---|
| Carson Indian School: Stewart, Nevada | 23 |
| Chemawa (Salem) Indian School: Chemawa, Oregon | 15 |
| Chilocco Indian School: Chilocco, Oklahoma | 21 |
| Fort Sill Indian School: Lawton, Oklahoma | 14 |
| From a "Government Teacher": Chitina, Alaska | 20 |
| Ft. Apache Indian School: White River, Arizona | 22 |
| Ft. Berthold Agency (probably from Ft. Berthold Indian Mission School): Elbowoods, North Dakota | 12 |
| Ft. Mohave Indian School: Mohave, Arizona | 8 |
| Genoa Indian School: Genoa, Nebraska | 6 |
| Hopi Agency (probably Keams Canyon Government Indian School): Keams Canyon, Arizona | 17 |
| Pawnee Indian Reservation (maybe from Pawnee Indian Boarding School): Pawnee, Oklahoma | 19 |
| Pearl River Indian Reservation: Choctaw Indian Agency, Philadelphia, Mississippi | 20 |
| Pierre Indian School: Pierre, South Dakota | 17 |
| Sherman Insitute: Riverside, California | 122 |
| Shoshone Indian School: Washakie, Wyoming | 12 |
| St. Michael's Mission: Ethete, Wyoming | 23 |
| Standing Rock School: Fort Yates, North Dakota | 12 |
| The Fort Totten Indian School: Fort Totten, North Dakota | 138 |
| U.S. Indian School: Flandreau, South Dakota | 75 |
| U.S Indian Vocational School: Albuquerque, New Mexico | 114 |
| U.S. Office of Indian Affairs Government School: Akutan, Alaska | 14 |
| Other U.S. Locations | Number of Samples |
|---|---|
| Alaska Department Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Field Services: Kodiak Island, Alaska | 20 |
| Alaska Office of Indian Affairs Field Service: Tanana, Yukon, Alaska and Nome, Alaska | 40 |
| American Museum of Natural History | 6 |
| Consolidated Chippewa Agency: Cass Lake, Minnesota | 6 |
| Crown Point, New Mexico | 27 |
| From Edward A. B. Willmer in New York (Innu samples) | 2 |
| Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico | 10 |
| Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico | 9 |
| Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota | 15 |
| Shungnak, Alaska | 2 |
| University of New Mexico | 50 |
| Utinah and Ouray Agency: Ft. Duchesne, Utah | 5 |