From Alabama to Yosemite: 50 US places with Native American origins

In the 2020 United States census, some 3.7 million people - about 1 percent of the population- identified as American Indian or Alaska Native alone. Including those who also reported another race, the figure reaches 9.7 million, or nearly 3 percent.

Dr Crystal Cavalier-Keck, a member of the Occaneechi Band tribe of the Saponi Nation in North Carolina, traces her ancestry...