native reservations
Tribal land allotments
Native reservations are lands set aside by governments for indigenous peoples, typically as a result of treaties, forced relocations, or federal policy.
In the United States, reservations are sovereign territories governed by tribal nations: She grew up on the Navajo reservation.
In Canada, the equivalent term is reserves.
The system reflects a history of displacement and contested sovereignty.
- protected landsAreas with legal conservation status
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- treaty rightsPact-secured legal entitlements
- broken treatiesAgreements no longer honored
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
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native reservationsfederal land
Government-owned territory
public land · state land · private property · private land · colonial territories
native reservationscolonial settlements
Established communities in claimed territories
European settlements · frontier towns · homesteads · plantations
native reservationsurban centers
Densely populated municipal areas
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