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nameDetermining Race & Ethnicity

The following chart may help in connecting geographic/national origin with a race to be reported in Data Exchange:

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Note: On the two-part Questionnaire for Race and Ethnic Data found here, if Part 1 Ethnicity is checked “Yes; Hispanic/Latino” then the student is reported as Hispanic Ethnicity ‘True’ and Hispanic Ethnicity and of any race on their Student Record no matter what race code is selected in Part 2. Hispanic students are not reported as multiracial.

If an individual considers themselves to be:

… or comes from one of the following countries or regions:

..and assuming single-race, the individual may be identified as:

European American

Northern Europe such as Britain (Scotland, Ireland, Wales), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden

Western Europe such as Belgium, France, Holland, Luxembourg

Central Europe such as Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland

Eastern Europe such as Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine Southern Europe such as Bosnia, Catalonia, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain

Other such as Caucasus, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan

White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East

Middle Eastern American

Afghanistan, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen

North African American

Algeria, Egypt, Morocco

Australian or New Zealander – not an indigenous person

Australia, New Zealand

Asian American

Asian Indian, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Okinawa, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lankan, Thailand, Vietnam, or ancestry groups such as Hmongs, Mongolians, Iwo Jiman, Maldivian

Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent.

Black, African American, Afro-American

Bahamas, Barbados, Botswana, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jamaica, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Nigriti, South Africa, Sudan, Tobago, Trinidad, West Indies, Zaire.

Black: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups in Africa

Pacific Islander

Caroline Islands, Fiji, Guam, Hawaiian Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Polynesia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tarawa Islands, Tonga

Native Hawaiian - Pacific Islander : A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands .

Aborigine, Indigenous, Australian, Torres Straits Islander

Australia, New Zealand, Torres Straits Islands

Indigenous Americans / First Nations Tribes:

Though not an exhaustive list, the following list may help in your observations.

Abenaki

Algonquian

Apache

Arapahoe

Arikara

Assiniboine

Assiniboine Sioux

Bannock

Blackfeet

Brotherton

Burt Lake Band

Caddo

Cahuilla

California Tribes

Canadian & Latin American

Catawba

Cayuse

Chehalis

Chemakuan

Chemehuevi

Cherokee

Cherokee Shawnee

Cheyenne

Cheyenne-Arapaho

Chickahominy

Chickasaw

Chinook

Chippewa

Chippewa Cree

Chitimacha

Choctaw

Choctaw-Apache

Chumash

Clear Lake

Coeur D’Alene

Coharie

Colorado River Indian

Colville

Comanche

Coos, Lower Umpqua, & Siuslaw

Coos

Coquille

Costanoan

Coushatta

Cowlitz

Cree

Creek

Croatan

Crow

Cumberland

Cupeno

Delaware

Diegueno

Eastern Tribes

Esselen

Fort Belknap

Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota

Fort McDowell

Fort Hall

Gabrieleno

Grand Ronde

Guilford

Gros Ventres

Haliwa-Saponi

Hidatsa

Hoopa

Hoops Extension

Indians of Person County

Iroquois

Juaneno (Acjachemem)

Kalispel

Karuk

Kaw

Kickapoo

Kiowa

S’Klallam

Klamath

Konkow

Kootenai

Lassik

Long Island

Luiseno

Lumbee

Lummi

Majdu

Makah

Maliseet

Mandan

Mattaponi

Menominee

Metrolina

Miami

Miccosukee

Micmac

Mission Indians

Miwok

Me-Wuk

Modoc

Mohegan

Monacan

Mono

Nanticoke

Nanticoke-Lenni-Lenape

Narragansett

Navajo

Nez Perce

Nipmuc

Nomlaki

Northwest Tribes

Omaha

Oneida Tribe

Oregon Athabaskan

Otoe-Missouria

Ottawa

Pajute

Pamunkey

Passamaquoddy

Pawnee

Penobscot

Peoria

Pequot

Pima

Piscataway

Pit River

Pomo & Pit River Indians

Pomo

Ponca

Potawatomi

Powhatan

Pueblo

Puget Sound Salish

Quapaw

Quinault

Rappahannock

Reno-Sparks

Round Valley

Sac and Fox

Salinan

Salish

Salish & Kootenai

Schaghticoke

Seminole

Serrano

Shasta

Shawnee

Shinnecock

Shoalwater Bay

Shoshone

Te-Moak Tribes of Western

Shoshone Indians of Nevada

Paiute-Shoshone

Siletz

Siuslaw

Spokane

Stockbridge-Munsee

Tohono O'Odham

Tolowa

Tonkawa

Trinidad

Tygh

Umatilla

Umpqua

Wailaki

Walla-Walla

Wampanoag

Warm Springs

Wascopum

Washoe

Wichita

Wind River

Yakama Cowlitz

Yaqui

Yavapai Apache

Yokuts

Yuchi

Yuman

Yurok

Alaskan


Alaska Native Tribes:

Though not an exhaustive list, the following list may help in your observations.

Alaska Native

Alaska Indian Tribes

Alaska Indian

Alaska Athabascans

Tlingit-Haida

Tsimshian

Sealaska

Southeast Alaska

Eskimo Tribes

Greenland Eskimo

Inuit

Inupiat Eskimo

Siberian Eskimo

Cupiks Eskimo

Yup’ik

Aleut Tribes

Aleut

Alutiiq Aleut

Bristol Bay Aleut

Chugach Aleut

Eyak

Koniag Aleut

Sugpiaq

Unangan Aleut

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