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Populations are the total census counts and include non-Native American people as well, sometimes making up a majority of the residents. The total population of all of them is 1,043,762. [citation needed] A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental United States
The city of Billings is approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the reservation boundary. It has a land area of 3,593.56 square miles (9,307.3 km 2) and a total area of 3,606.54 square miles (9,340.9 km 2), [6] making it either the fifth or sixth-largest reservation in the country (alternating with the Standing Rock Reservation depending on ...
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).
In March 2012, the Fort Belknap community received a herd of pure-bred plains bison (Bison bison bison) from Yellowstone National Park that had been quarantined at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. [6] The tribes on these reservations introduced the bison to their local ranges, a century after they were exterminated in the area.
In June 1877, several bands of the Nez Perce, numbering about 750 men, women, and children and resisting relocation from their native lands on the Wallowa River in northeast Oregon to a reservation in west-central Idaho on the Clearwater river, attempted to escape to the east through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming over the Rocky Mountains into the ...
The National Park Service celebrated Yellowstone’s milestone birthday by recognizing the land's "original stewards." America's first national park turns 150, but Native Americans cared for ...
In November 2014, an additional 136 American Bison from Yellowstone National Park were added to the Fort Peck Herd. [17] The preserve has also been enlarged to 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ; 20 sq mi) as Fort Peck Fish and Game works toward their target goal of 1,000 bison, which scientists feel is the minimum herd size necessary to restore the Bison ...
1. Cody, Wyoming. As its name suggests, Cody was founded by "Buffalo Bill" Cody himself. The discovery of oil fields and the founding of nearby Yellowstone National Park have ensured the town has ...
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