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Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

NCES 2008-084
September 2008


Table 1.2c.  Number and percentage distribution of the non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native alone population, by designated area: 2000

Residential location Number Percent
Total 2,068,883 100.0
American Indian/Alaska Native Areas and Alaska Native Regional Areas 969,625 46.9
American Indian reservation and off-reservation trust land—federal 505,904 24.5
American Indian reservation and off-reservation trust land—state 908 #
Oklahoma tribal statistical area 226,900 11.0
Tribal designated statistical area 2,207 0.1
State designated American Indian statistical area 80,783 3.9
Alaska Native village statistical area 57,574 2.8
Alaska Native Regional Corporation 95,349 4.6
Other areas 1,099,258 53.1
# Rounds to zero.
NOTE: "Alone" refers to respondents who selected American Indian/Alaska Native and not any other race category. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, tables 2 and 34, based on Decennial Census, 2000.