Pomona College’s collection represents more than 100 tribes and peoples, including those listed below. The Benton is working to adopt the names Indigenous tribes gave to themselves instead of those assigned to them by settler colonizers. This process is ongoing and requires more specific identification of items, for which the help of Indigenous descendants of makers and scholarly experts is very welcome. Where two names are given, the first represents how the tribe names itself today, while the second (in parentheses) is how the tribe was identified in the past, retained here to reflect proper identification still in progress.
Acoma
Aleut
Ancestral Puebloan
Anishinaabe
Apache
Arapaho
Arctic Tribe
Arnella
Assiniboine
Athabascan
Blackfoot
Caddo
Caddo-Delaware
Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians
Central Algonkian
Central Plains Tribe
Chemehuevi
Cherokee
Cheyenne
Chippewa
Chitimacha
Choctaw
Chorotega
Cochiti
Comanche
Costa Rican
Cree
Crow
Dakota
Delaware
Diegueño
Diné (Navajo)
Eastern Woodlands Tribe
Fox
Haida
Haudenosaunee
Havasupai
Hill Maidu
Hohokam
Hopi
Hupa
Hupa-Yurok
Inuit
Ipai (Diegueño)
Iroquois
Isleta
Jemez
Jicarilla Apache
Kiowa
Klamath
Klikitat
Laguna
Lakota
Lapps
Los Coyotes
Lower Great Lakes
Luiseño
Maidu
Makah
Manuella
Maricopa
Matis
Menominee
Mescalero Apache
Mimbres
Mission Indians
Miwok
Modoc
Mogollon
Mohave
Monache (W.M.)
Mono
Morongo Band of Mission Indians
Mountain Maidu
Nampeyo
Nez Perce
North Platte
Northern Paiute (Paviotso)
Northern Plains
Northwest Coastal Tribe
Northwestern Tribe
Ojibwe
Paiute
Panamint
Panamint-Shoshone
Patium
Patwin
Peruvian
Picarus
Pima
Plains Tribe
Plateau
Pomo
Pueblo
Ramona
Relocated Woodlands Tribe
Sac
Salado
San Ildefonso
Santa Clara
Santo Domingo
Sauk
Seri
Shoshone
Sioux
Somerton Tribe
Southern Paiute
Southwestern Tribe
Stalo
Tlingit
Tohono O'odham
Tonkawa
Tulare
Ute
Valley Maidu
Volcan (Mission Indians)
Walapai
Washo
Western Apache
Western Mono
White Mountain Apache
White River Apache
Winnebago
Woodlands Tribe
Yaki
Yakima
Yokut
Yuki
Yuma
Zia
Zuni