This week, we explore one of America’s great demographic mysteries: Why did the 2020 Census show the American Indian and Alaska Native population soaring by 85 percent?
Siri Rishi dances while singing a mantra in a field in Sagaponack, N.Y., named for the Shinnecock Indian Nation word meaning "land where the large ground nuts grow." : We’re pretty sure the most anticipated debut related to Native Americans this year is a much-delayed and much-less-snappily named release from the U.S.
We here at the Department of Data are dedicated to exploring the weird and wondrous power of the data that defines our world. The Census Bureau definition of Native American is not limited to tribes originating on the turf of today’s United States. More than 40 percent of those Census calls single-race American Indian and Alaska Native have Indigenous roots reaching outside our current borders, including the Aztecs, a Mesoamerican people whose modern descendants are known in Mexico as the Nahua.about 387,000 Americans claimed a full background as Aztec — nearly 20 times the number reported in 2010.
But the bit that really braised our brains is this: While the number of people claiming to be single-race Cherokee fell slightly in the 2010 Census, the number claiming to be at least part Cherokee skyrocketed from 770,000 to about 1.5 million. Still, the Census Bureau didn’t create this population of surprise Native Americans. It just revealed it with a change in methodology. And it raises another big question: Why are there so many Cherokees, out of all the possible American Indian identities?
also led some White Southerners to embrace the Cherokee as fellow victims of federal overreach — though Smithers is quick to point out it was often those Southerners’ ancestors who led the calls for Cherokee removal in the first place.
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