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The Wind River Indian Reservation is the seventh-largest American Indian reservation in the United States by area and the fifth-largest [ 6 ] by population. The land area is approximately 2.2 million acres (3,438 sq mi; 8,903 km 2), and the total area (land and water) is 3,532.01 square miles (9,147.9 km 2).
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [ 1 ] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
The Northern Cheyenne were allies of the Lakota in the Black Hills War of 1876–1877. The United States government established the Tongue River Indian Reservation, which consisted of 371,200 acres (1,502 km 2) of land, under the executive order given by President Chester A. Arthur on November 16, 1884. The boundaries originally did not include ...
Map 1. Some of the 1851 Fort Laramie territories. Later and at different times, each tribe would enter into new treaties with the US. The result was an often-changing patchwork of bigger and smaller parts of the initial allocations, newly established reservations, and former tribal land turned into new US territory. The bold outline shows the ...
The Uinta and Ouray Indian Reservation is the second-largest Indian Reservation in the US – covering over 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of land. [2] [12] Tribal owned lands only cover approximately 1.2 million acres (4,855 km 2) of surface land and 40,000 acres (160 km 2) of mineral-owned land within the 4 million acres (16,185 km 2 ...
The lands were located in western Indian Territory south of the Cherokee Outlet and north of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Indian Reservation. [2] However, a portion of it was split off later to form the Caddo-Wichita-Delaware Indian Reservation. [3] The area occupied by the tribes is now referred to as the Cheyenne-Arapaho Oklahoma Tribal ...
The Uinta and Ouray Indian Reservation is the second-largest Indian Reservation in the US – covering over 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of land. [57] [58] Tribal owned lands only cover approximately 1.2 million acres (4,855 km 2) of surface land and 40,000 acres (160 km 2) of mineral-owned land within the 4 million acres (16,185 km 2 ...