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English: Indian Land Areas Judicially Established 1978 and American Indian Reservations This map was created by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office of Trust Services (OTS) Division of Water and Power (DWP) and is currently retained and disseminated by the BIA Branch of Geospatial Support (BOGS) function, Lakewood, CO. Plot Date: July 2015
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.
Indian Country, as defined by Congress in 1948 (18 U.S.C.A. 1151) is: a) "all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights-of way running through the reservation, b) all dependent Indian communities within the borders of ...
Indian Land High School was built in 1927 where QuikTrip (1049) now stands at the corner of Collins Road and Charlotte Highway, enrolling grades 1-11 (Kindergarten and the 12th grade were not yet established in South Carolina schools). The first graduating class was four young women: Ms. Annie Mae Jackson, Ms. Azalee Morrow, Ms. Florence ...
American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly (1997) excerpt and text search; Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (abridged edition, 1986) Ruppel, Kristin T. (2007). Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of Allotment. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Below are listed the international lesbian conferences organised by ILIS in Europe in conjunction with local lesbian organisations, the presence of ILIS representatives at three UN World Conferences on Women, as well as the Latin American and Asian Lesbian Conferences that were organised either with the help of ILIS or to which ILIS member groups attended:
The Connecticut Indian Land Claims Settlement was an Indian Land Claims Settlement passed by the United States Congress in 1983. [1] The settlement act ended a lawsuit by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe to recover 800 acres of their 1666 reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut. The state sold this property in 1855 without gaining ratification by the ...
One of these statutes, enacted in 1889, allotted each male Sioux head of household 320 acres (1.3 km 2) of land and most other individuals 160 acres (0.65 km 2), with the land to be held in trust by the United States. Prior to 1910, the lands of deceased allottees passed to their heirs "according to the laws of the State or Territory" where the ...