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The main reservation is surrounded by the Painted Cliffs, the Zuni Mountains, and the Cibola National Forest. The reservation's total land area is 723.343 sq mi (1,873.45 km 2). As noted above, the Zuni Tribe also has land holdings in Apache County, Arizona, and Catron County, New Mexico, that do not border the main reservation.
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.
The Zuni people today are federally recognized as the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, and most live in the Pueblo of Zuni on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico, United States. The Pueblo of Zuni is 55 km (34 mi) south of Gallup, New Mexico. [1] The Zuni tribe lived in multi level ...
Hawikuh is located within the boundaries of the Zuni Indian Reservation near Zuni, New Mexico. [7] The ruins of Hawikuh were excavated during 1917-23 by the Heye Foundation under the leadership of Frederick Webb Hodge , who was assistant director of the Museum of the American Indian, New York .
The river flows off the western slopes of the Zuñi Mountains in a generally southwesterly direction through the Zuni Indian Reservation to join the Little Colorado River in eastern Arizona. The Zuni River is approximately 90 miles (140 km) long, and has a drainage basin in New Mexico of approximately 1,300 square miles (3,400 km 2). [3]
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 Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to reclaim its reservation in Illinois for nearly 200 years. Wisconsin Ho-Chunk help create only tribal reservation in Illinois for ...
Black Rock is located on the Zuñi Reservation on the left bank (south side) of the Zuñi River, approximately 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Zuñi, on the north side of NM Route 53. [7] Immediately to the east of the community is the Black Rock Reservoir, [7] [8] which was created in 1908 by damming the Zuni River. [9]