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2. Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation

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   The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe has a federal reservation, the Duckwater Reservation (38°55′49″N 115°42′37″W), in Nye County, Nevada. [1] The reservation was established in 1940, when the tribe purchased the 3,272-acre (13.24 km 2) Florio Ranch and 21 families moved onto the land. [5] Today, it is approximately 3,815 acres (15.44 km 2).

3. Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement ...

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   The Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute nations have settled their water-rights claims with the state of Arizona. Here, a stream winds through the arid Navajo Reservation.

4. Gadsden Purchase - Wikipedia

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   The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west ...

5. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area - Wikipedia

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   The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Clark County, Nevada, United States, is an area managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of its National Landscape Conservation System, and protected as a National Conservation Area. It is about 15 miles (24 km) west of Las Vegas. More than three million people visit the area each year. [2]

6. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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   The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away free.

7. Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California - Wikipedia

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   Miwok, Maidu, and Nisenan [4] The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California are a federally recognized tribe of Washoe Indians, living in California and Nevada. There are several Washoe communities south and east of Lake Tahoe united under a tribal council. [5] The Washoe people own over 64,300 acres (26,000 ha) in public domain allotments (PDA ...