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  2. Bradworthy - Wikipedia

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    UK. England. Devon. 50°54′04″N 4°23′06″W  / . 50.901°N 4.385°W. / 50.901; -4.385. Bradworthy is a village and civil parish in Devon, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of the border with Cornwall. This location has led to it being called the "last village in North Devon" – traveling further west leads to the ...

  3. List of Indian reservations in the United States - Wikipedia

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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

  4. Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A map showing the approximate locations of Native American nations in present-day North America, c. 16th century Spanish Empire explorer Hernando DeSoto greeting Native Americans on the Mississippi River, c. 1541, depicted in an 1853 portrait by William Henry Powell, which now hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.

  5. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    On June 2, 1924, U.S. RepublicanPresident Calvin Coolidgesigned the Indian Citizenship Act, which made citizens of the United States of all Native Americans born in the United States and its territories and who were not already citizens. Prior to passage of the act, nearly two-thirds of Native Americans were already U.S. citizens.

  6. Tribal sovereignty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin - Wikipedia

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    The "Great Basin" is a cultural classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas and a cultural region located between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. The Great Basin region at the time of European contact was ~400,000 sq mi (1,000,000 km 2 ). [1]

  8. Indian reservation - Wikipedia

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    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 government in which it is located.

  9. Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    From 2006 to 2016, the Indigenous population has grown by 42.5 percent, four times the national rate. [ 34] According to the 2011 Canadian census, Indigenous peoples ( First Nations – 851,560, Inuit – 59,445 and Métis – 451,795) numbered at 1,400,685, or 4.3% of the country's total population.