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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.
Two female Wichita people in summer dress in 1870 An artist's 2016 depiction of Spiro Mounds, a Caddoan Mississippian site, as seen from the west A Caddo village near Anadarko, Oklahoma in the 1870s. Indian Territory marks the confluence of the Southern Plains and Southeastern Woodlands cultural regions.
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 lands were located in western Indian Territory south of the Cherokee Outlet and north of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Indian Reservation. [2] However, a portion of it was split off later to form the Caddo-Wichita-Delaware Indian Reservation. [3] The area occupied by the tribes is now referred to as the Cheyenne-Arapaho Oklahoma Tribal ...
Indian wars per year jumped up to 32 in 1876 and remained at 43 in 1877. [23] One of the highest casualty Indian battles that took place in American history was at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. [38] Indian war casualties in Montana went from 5 in 1875, to 613 in 1876 and 436 in 1877. [39]
This reserve was abandoned for Indian purposes on Mar. 31, 1866, and was restored to the public domain by act of Congress of July 27, 1868 Tule River or Madden Farm reservation Indians: 1856 Ca-2 402 814 This tract was informally established in 1856 as an Indian reservation. Tule Reservation size and history [note 23] Round Valley reservation ...
Kit Carson, Indian agent to the Ute Indians and the Jicarilla Apaches, 1850s [9] Leander Clark, Indian agent for the Sac and Fox in Iowa beginning in 1866; John Clum, Indian agent for the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in the Arizona Territory; John Coffee, U.S. commissioner to negotiate what became the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek [10]
In Canada, an Indian reserve (French: réserve indienne) [nb 1] or First Nations reserve (French: réserve des premières nations) is defined by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in His Majesty, [3] that has been set apart by His Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."