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A part of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation is Indian territory of the Three Tribes recognized in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). [ 7 ] Created in 1870 by the U.S. government, the reservation was named after Fort Berthold , a United States Army fort located on the northern bank of the Missouri River some twenty miles downstream (southeast ...
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 ...
The Wind River Indian Reservation is the seventh-largest American Indian reservation in the United States by area and the fifth-largest [6] by population. The land area is approximately 2.2 million acres (3,438 sq mi; 8,903 km 2), and the total area (land and water) is 3,532.01 square miles (9,147.9 km 2).
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]
The Darlington Agency was an Indian agency on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation prior to statehood in present-day Canadian County, Oklahoma. The agency was established in 1870. The agency established at Fort Supply the previous year was moved to a more accessible location for the tribes.
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.
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.
Federal Indian policy establishes the relationship between the United States ... (1789–1828), removal and reservations (1829–1886), assimilation (1887 ...