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  2. Local government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Guam has villages, the U.S. Virgin Islands has districts, and American Samoa has districts and unorganized atolls. [4] [5] [6] Each Indian Reservation is subdivided in various ways. For example, the Navajo Nation is subdivided into agencies and Chapter houses, while the Blackfeet Nation is subdivided into Communities.

  3. Settlement and community houses in the United States

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    Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.

  4. List of American utopian communities - Wikipedia

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    Community based on Communal ownership of property [2] Brook Farm: Massachusetts George Ripley Sophia Ripley: 1841 1846 A Transcendent community. Transcendentalism is a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England. North American Phalanx: New Jersey Charles Sears 1841 1856 A Fourier Society community.

  5. List of ethnic enclaves in North American cities - Wikipedia

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    Urban Indians, communities developed by small enclaves of Native Americans/First Nations and Alaskan Natives since the 1930s. They tend to form small percentages of the urban areas' population. Virtually every major city in the US has an American Indian community. See Rancherie/ Ranchería for urban Indian parts of Las Vegas, Nevada and Reno ...

  6. Category:Types of communities - Wikipedia

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    This category is for the many types of community discussed throughout Wikipedia, and it is a subcategory of Category:Community. For articles about specific communities, see Category:Communities . For articles and subcategories that are about community topics , see Category:Community .

  7. Living Small: Charming Tiny Home Communities Across America - AOL

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    Spur, Texas. Spur, Texas is not exclusively a tiny home community, but claims to be the first U.S. town to have welcomed tiny homes. In 2014, the town passed first-in-the-nation legislation that ...

  8. Community - Wikipedia

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    These are also called communities of place. Identity-based: range from the local clique, sub-culture, ethnic group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilisation, or the global community cultures of today. They may be included as communities of need or identity, such as disabled persons, or frail aged people.

  9. Village (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In formal usage, a "village" is a type of administrative division at the local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from legislating on local government, the states are free to have political subdivisions called "villages" or not to and to define the word in many ways.