This report provides a portrait of the American Indian and Alaska Native population in the United States and discusses the largest specified tribal groupings, reservations, Alaska Native village statistical areas (ANVSAs), and areas outside reservations and ANVSAs
(outside tribal areas) at the national level. It is part of the Census 2000 Special Reports series that presents demographic, social,
and economic characteristics collected from Census 2000. In Census 2000, 4.3 million people, or 1.5 percent of the total U.S. population,
reported that they were American Indian and Alaska Native. This number included 2.4 million people, or 1 percent, who reported only American Indian and Alaska Native as their race.