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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 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 ...
Location of Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation: 833 4,215 Southeastern Grays Harbor County and southwestern Thurston County: Colville Indian Reservation: 9,353 1,400,000 Primarily in the southeastern section of Okanogan County and the southern half of Ferry County: Cowlitz Reservation: 4,800 152 Ridgefield, WA (Clark ...
The Warm Springs Reservation is one of the last holdouts in the U.S. of speakers of the Chinook Jargon because of its utility as an intertribal language. The forms of the Jargon used by elders in Warm Springs vary considerably from the heavily-creolized form at Grand Ronde. Kiksht, Numu and Ichishkiin Snwit languages are taught in the Warm ...
There are seven Native American reservations in Oregon that belong to seven of the nine federally recognized Oregon tribes: Burns Paiute Indian Colony, of the Burns Paiute Tribe: 13,738 acres (55.60 km 2) in Harney County. Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Reservation, of Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians is less than ...
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation ( Cheyenne: Tsėhéstáno; formerly named the Tongue River) is the federally recognized Northern Cheyenne tribe. Located in southeastern Montana, the reservation is approximately 690 square miles (1,800 km 2) in size and home to approximately 6,000 Cheyenne people.
The Havasupai Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Havasupai people, surrounded entirely by the Grand Canyon National Park, in Coconino County in Arizona, United States. It is considered one of America's most remote Indian reservations. The reservation is governed by a seven-member tribal council, led by a chairman who is ...
The Tohono O'odham Nation governs four separate pieces of land, including the Tohono O'odham and San Xavier Indian Reservations and the San Lucy district near Gila Bend. Tonto Apache Reservation: Tonto Apache: Dilzhę́’é 1974 120 0.13 (0.34) Gila: White Mountain Apache Reservation: Apache (White Mountain) Dził Łigai Si'án N'dee 1891 13,409