Information on Reservations
What are reservations?
Reservations are the land given from European settlers to prevent the Indians and settlers from conflict between each other. Each reservation is owned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. There are 556 federally recognized American Indian tribes that call the United States home. Although not all 556 tribes have a reservation, there are approximately only 310 reservations that are federally recognized. This leads some tribes to share land, while others are left with none.
Living conditions on the reservations.
The living conditions on the reservations are catastrophically poor and difficult. There are even some reservations that report up to 85% unemployment from their tribe. Many of them do not even have the support from the American government. This leads young Indians into a circle of poverty and addiction passed down from their parents.
Where are reservations located?
Reservations are located all over the continental and non-continental United States and are pieces of land typically in states where the tribes were originally located at before the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The most amount of reservations located in one state are in Alaska, of which there are 221 of them with a population of approximately 261,746.
