Historical piecemeal land allocations under the Dawes Act facilitated sales to non–Native Americans, resulting in some reservations becoming severely fragmented, with pieces of tribal and privately held land being treated as separate enclaves. Some of the country's 574 federally recognized tribes govern more than one of the 326 Indian reservations in the United States, while some share reservations, and others have no reservation at all. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is sovereign, 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. Protected areas ( Conservation district, National monument, National park)Īn American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S.Unorganized Borough / Census area / Villages / District (USVI) / District (AS).Indian reservation ( list) / Hawaiian home land / Alaska Native tribal entity / Pueblo / Off-reservation trust land / Tribal Jurisdictional Area.Ranging from the 1.32-acre (0.534 hectare) Pit River Tribe's cemetery in California to the 17 million–acre (64,750 square kilometer) Navajo Nation Reservation located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah 326 (map includes the 310 as of May 1996)Ībout 1 million (total) – 165,158 ( Navajo Nation)
