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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.
The reservation is 400 acres (1.6 km 2) large that is held in Trustee status and another 67 acres held in fee simple status. Approximately 50 tribal members on the reservation. [2] The reservation was established on July 22, 1915. [1] The tribe owns and operates the Benton Crossing Cafe in nearby Benton, California. [4]
Reservation name Tribe Counties Map Population [Note 1] Notes Bois Forte Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis: 984 Fond du Lac Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Carlton and St. Louis: 4,184 Owns off-reservation trust land in Douglas County, Wisconsin. Grand Portage Indian Reservation: Ojibwe: Cook: 618 Leech Lake Indian ...
American Indian Sovereignty and Law: An Annotated Bibliography. Native American bibliography series. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6236-4. Hays, Joel Stanford (2013). "Twisting the Law: Legal Inconsistencies in Andrew Jackson's Treatment of Native-American Sovereignty and State Sovereignty". Journal of Southern Legal History.
"The division of O'odham lands has resulted in an artificial division of O'odham society. O'odham bands are now broken up into 4 federally recognized tribes: the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Gila River Indian Community, the Ak-Chin Indian Community and the Salt River (Pima Maricopa) Indian community." (quote from the Tohono O'odham Nation website ...
The Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Lone Pine Community is a federal recognized tribe and reside on the reservation, the Lone Pine Indian Reservation in Inyo County, in central-eastern California, in the Owens River Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The reservation is 237 acres (0.96 km 2) large.
Giago founded the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and has worked to recruit Native American students into journalism through its foundation, as well as to establish Indian studies in journalism schools. [129] Connie Smith started the Lakota Country Times, a weekly newspaper which she owns. It is the official legal newspaper for ...