tribal lands
Native community grounds
Tribal lands are territories legally recognized as belonging to or reserved for indigenous peoples, particularly Native American nations in the United States.
These lands often have distinct legal status, with tribal governments exercising sovereignty over them: The pipeline route was diverted to avoid tribal lands.
The term appears in discussions of treaty rights, natural resources, and jurisdictional questions between tribal and federal authorities.
- federal recognitionGovernment's formal tribal acknowledgment
- tribal councilIndigenous community's ruling body
- tribal schoolsIndigenous-run educational institutions
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
treaties · allotment · jurisdiction · sacred spaces · medicine wheel · self-determination · forests · ancestral homelands · tribal governance · reservation system · biodiversity · fishing rights · conservation areas · pueblo · rivers · buffalo · homeland · wildlife corridors
- Tribal Sovereigntytribal nations, tribal sovereignty, federal recognition, tribal governance, tribal councils
- US geographystates, capitals, state boundaries, state lines, regions
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Native AmericansCherokee, Apache, Navajo, Sioux, Mohawk
- Southwestmesa, Monument Valley, Arizona, New Mexico, Grand Canyon
- CherokeeCherokee Nation, Cherokee syllabary, Sequoyah, Trail of Tears, clan mothers
tribal landsfederal property
Holdings of the national government
federal lands · state lands · crown land · government land · national parks
tribal landsconquered lands
Areas seized through warfare
colonial settlements · occupied territory · reservation land