Tribes with Historical Ties to Colorado

If you are not from Colorado, you can receive Colorado residency if you are an enrolled citizen of a federally recognized tribe with historical ties to Colorado according to the Colorado American Indian Tribes In-State Tuition Act.

Qualifying tribes

  • Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
  • Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
  • Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
  • Comanche Nation, Oklahoma
  • Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
  • Crow Tribe
  • Eastern Shoshone Tribe (Wind River Reservation)
  • Fort Sill Apache Tribe
  • The Hopi Tribe
  • Jicarilla Apache Nation
  • Kewa Pueblo (formerly the Pueblo of Santo Domingo)
  • Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
  • Mescalero Apache Tribe
  • Navajo Nation
  • Northern Arapaho Tribe
  • Northern Cheyenne Tribe
  • Oglala Sioux Tribe
  • Ohkay Owingeh (Pueblo of San Juan)
  • Osage Nation
  • Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
  • Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
  • Pueblo of Acoma
  • Pueblo de Cochiti
  • Pueblo of Isleta
  • Pueblo of Jemez
  • Pueblo of Laguna
  • Pueblo of Nambe
  • Pueblo of Picuris
  • Pueblo of Pojoaque
  • Pueblo of San Felipe
  • Pueblo of San Ildefonso
  • Pueblo of Sandia
  • Pueblo of Santa Ana
  • Pueblo of Santa Clara
  • Pueblo of Taos
  • Pueblo of Tesuque
  • Pueblo of Zia
  • Rosebud Sioux Tribe
  • San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe
  • Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
  • Southern Ute Indian Tribe
  • Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
  • Three Affiliated Tribes
  • Ute Indian Tribe (Uintah & Ouray Reservation)
  • Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
  • Wichita & Affiliated Tribes
  • Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
  • Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation