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The People

92.1 percent of the people are of European descent. Native Americans make up 2.3 percent of the state's total population. A majority of them live on the Wind River Reservation, 900,000 hectares (2.2 million acres) in west central Wyoming, the home of the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes. Some 0.8 percent of the population is black, 0.6 percent is Asian, 0.1 percent is Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and 4.3 percent are of mixed heritage or did not report ethnicity in the 2000 census. Hispanics, who can be of any race, represent 6.4 percent of the population.

The 1998 census put Wyoming's population at 481,000. The State Capital is Cheyenne, other Major Cities or Towns include Casper, Laramie, Rock Springs, Gillette, Sheridan, Green River, Evanston, Riverton and Rawlins.