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The Indian Act gives the Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations the right to "determine whether any purpose for which lands in a reserve are used is for the use and benefit of the band." [17] Title to land within the reserve may be transferred to only the band or to individual band members. Reserve lands may not be seized legally, nor is the ...
The village was a site of significant cultural, economic, and social activity, where neighboring Indigenous nations gathered for potlatches and trade. [4] Following the passage of the Indian Act in 1876, the Joint Indian Reserve Commission was tasked with surveying and designating reserve lands for Indigenous peoples. In 1877, the commission ...
Proportion of Indigenous Americans in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census This is a list of Indian reservations and other tribal homelands in the United States.
Children outside some of the 27 houses at Boggabilla Station, November 1952. Aboriginal reserves in New South Wales, together with Stations, and Aboriginal Missions in New South Wales were areas of land where many Aboriginal people were forced to live in accordance with laws and policies.
An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state government in which it is located.
Typical uses of off-reservation trust land include housing, agriculture or forestry, and community services such as health care and education. [1] The US Census has provided data for trust lands since the 1980 Census .
In April 2015, MCFN had an enrolled population of 2,330 people, 850 of whom lived on the MCFN Reserve. The first nation governs the 2,392.6 ha (5,912 acres) [5] parcel of New Credit 40A Indian Reserve known as Reserve 40B [citation needed] near Hagersville, Ontario. This reserve is located beside the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Brantford.
[5] [6] According to the most recent census, Attawapiskat has 1,549 people living on reserve. [5] The Attawapiskat reserve has been the subject of several state of emergency announcements by Spence in recent years, due to the reserve's poor housing conditions. The announcements have received national media coverage.