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Indian reservations. An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state ...
Federally recognized reservations. 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.
The reservation lies in parts of seven counties; in descending order of land area they are: Uintah, Duchesne, Wasatch, Grand, Carbon, Utah, and Emery counties. The total land area is 6,769.173 square miles (17,532.08 km 2) with control of the lands split between Ute Indian Allottees, the Ute Indian Tribe, and the Ute Distribution Corporation.
Colville Tribes. The Colville Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the Northwestern United States, in north central Washington, inhabited and managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which are federally recognized . Established in 1872, the reservation currently consists of 2,825,000 acres (4,410 sq mi; 11,430 ...
Reservation lands in the contiguous United States as of 2019. Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States. The U.S. federal government recognized American Indian tribes as independent nations and came to policy agreements with ...
The Great Sioux Reservation is an Indian reservation created by the United States through treaty with the Sioux , principally the Lakota, who dominated the territory before its establishment. [ 1] In the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the reservation included lands west of the Missouri River in South Dakota and Nebraska, including all of present ...
Lummi Indian Reservation: 6,590 21,000 West of Bellingham, in western Whatcom County: Makah Indian Reservation: 1,356 27,950 On Cape Flattery in Clallam County: Muckleshoot Indian Reservation: 3,300 3,850 Southeast of Auburn in King County: Nisqually Indian Reservation: 588 4,800 Western Pierce County and eastern Thurston County: Nooksack ...
Not a federally recognized reservation but is a pueblo built on land given to the Piro/Manso/Tiwa tribe in 1852. Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation around 2,000 population Ute: Wʉgama Núuchi — — San Juan: Reservation is primarily located in Colorado (La Plata, Montezuma). Zia Pueblo: Zia: Tsi'ya 737 121,613 Sandoval: Zuni Indian ...