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Nearly half of the enrolled members of the Navajo tribe live outside the nationʼs territory, and the total enrolled population is 300,048, as of July 2011. [74] As of 2016, 173,667 Diné lived on tribal lands.
The overwhelming majority of Diné are enrolled in the Navajo Nation. Some Diné are enrolled in the Colorado River Indian Tribes, another federally recognized tribe. With more than 399,494 [1] enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [5] the Navajo Nation is the second largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. [6] The Navajo ...
The Dawes Commission authorized applications for tribal enrollment in the Five Tribes on March 3, 1893, in an attempt to convince the tribes to cede Indian lands to the federal government. [2] The 1896 Applications for Enrollment were commissioned at the insistence of the Dawes Commission, not at the insistence of the Five Tribes themselves.
Navajo Nation President signed a resolution to provide $2,000 in hardship funds to adults and $600 to minors who are enrolled members of the tribe.
Basing citizenship off specific enrollment rolls, like the Dawes Roll (that were taken after more than 80 years after Removal, after the Civil War, and after tribal government restructuring), is what scholar Fay A. Yarbrough calls "dramatically different from older conceptions" of tribal identity based on clan relationships, "in which ...
The Colorado River Indian Tribes (Mohave: Aha Havasuu, Navajo: Tó Ntsʼósíkooh Bibąąhgi Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bináhásdzo) is a federally recognized tribe consisting of the four distinct ethnic groups associated with the Colorado River Indian Reservation: the Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo. The tribe has about 4,277 enrolled members.
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Window Rock, known in Navajo as Tségháhoodzání (pronounced [tsʰéɰáhòːtsání]), is a city and census-designated place that serves as the capital of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe by both land and tribal enrollment. [3]