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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.
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.
List of historical Indian reservations in the United States; List of Indian reservations in the United States; List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes; Native American Heritage Sites (National Park Service) Native Americans in the United States; Outline of United States federal Indian law and policy
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Official Tribal Name People(s) Total Pop. (2010) [2] In-State Pop. (2010) [2] Tribal Headquarters [2] County Jurisdiction [2]; Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians: Shawnee
At roughly 17,544,500 acres (71,000 km 2; 27,413 sq mi), the Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, exceeding that of ten U.S. states. It is one of the few reservations whose lands overlap the nation's traditional homelands.
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]
The Wind River Indian Reservation is the seventh-largest American Indian reservation in the United States by area and the fifth-largest [6] by population. The land area is approximately 2.2 million acres (3,438 sq mi; 8,903 km 2), and the total area (land and water) is 3,532.01 square miles (9,147.9 km 2).