How many American Indian reservations are there now, and in which areas?

There are 326 Indian reservations in the United States (Bureau of Indian Affairs data 20 15). Not every one of the 567 tribes in the United States has its own reservation. Some tribes have more than one reservation, some tribes and other tribes use reservations, and some tribes have no reservations.

The total geographical area of American Indian reservation is about 56,200,000 acres (about 22,700,000 hectares or 87,800 square miles), which is slightly larger than that of Idaho (about 83,570 square miles). Among them, 65,438+02 reserves are larger than Rhode Island (about 65,438+0,265,438+04 square miles), and most of them are smaller. The largest Navajo reservation (naabeeho bináhásdzo in English) spans northeast Arizona, southeast Utah and northwest New Mexico, with a total area of 27,425 square miles, and the tribal government enjoys semi-autonomy.

The distribution of the reserved land is shown in the following figure (because the figure shows the distribution of the reserved land in May of 1996, the number of the reserved land on the figure is slightly less than now). The larger reserves are mainly distributed in the west and north, and the eastern reserves are relatively small, mainly concentrated in Mississippi in the south.