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Created in 1870 by the U.S. government, the reservation was named after Fort Berthold, a United States Army fort located on the northern bank of the Missouri River some twenty miles downstream (southeast) from the mouth of the Little Missouri River. [8] The green area (529) on the map turned U.S. territory on April 12, 1870, by executive order.
There are 17,228 enrolled members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation as of 16 June 2023. Approximately 2/3rd reside off the Reservation and 1/3rd live on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation;. Membership (citizenship) is derived from the 1936 Indian Census roll of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
Alabama Indian Affairs Commission (AIAC) was created by a legislative act in 1984 [1] and represents more than 38,000 American Indian families who are residents of the U.S. state of Alabama.
Robert Alden, Indian Agent for the Fort Berthold Agency in the Dakota Territory, 1877–1877. Known as Rev. Robert Alden in Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. Herman Bendell, Last Indian Agent for the Arizona Territory, 1871-1873; Kit Carson, Indian agent to the Ute Indians and the Jicarilla Apaches, 1850s [8]
The Three Tribes sold a segment of land to the United States in 1870. The last treaty that diminished the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation was signed in 1886 (ratified in 1891). [26] In the next century, the tribes would win a claims case and receive payment for some of the land lost by executive order fifty years before. [27]
In July 2018 the United States' Federal Register issued an official list of 573 tribes that are Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. [1] The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana became the 574th tribe to gain federal recognition on December 20, 2019.
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]
In 1984, when the Alabama Indian Affairs Commission was established to represent Native American interests in the state, the group attained state recognition. [2] The group is headquartered in Falkville, Alabama. [9] In 1997 the Echota Cherokee organization reported that they had 22,000 members. Only 21 members participated in the cited survey ...