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American Indian Alaska Native Native Hawaiian AIANNH Areas

2025 - Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data HIFLD


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Federal American Indian Reservations, Off-Reservation Trust Lands (ORTL), State American Indian Reservations, Hawaiian Home Lands (HHL), Alaska Native Village Statistical Areas (ANVSA), Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Areas (OTSA), State Designated Tribal Statistical Areas (SDTSA), Tribal Designated Statistical Areas (TDSA), American Indian Joint-Use Areas (AIJUA), Joint-Use Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Areas; January 1, 2024 vintage Federal (federal AIRs) are areas that have been set aside by the United States for the use of tribes, the exterior boundaries of which are more particularly defined in the final tribal treaties, agreements, executive orders, federal statutes, secretarial orders, or judicial determinations. The Bureau of Indian Affairs maintains a list of all federally recognized tribal governments and makes final determination of the inventory federal AIRs. The Census Bureau recognizes federal reservations (and associated off-reservation trust lands) as territory over which American Indian tribes have primary governmental authority. American Indian reservations can be legally described as colonies, communities, Indian colonies, Indian communities, Indian rancheria, Indian reservations, Indian villages, pueblos, rancherias, ranches, reservations, reserves, settlements, or villages. The Census Bureau contacts representatives of American Indian tribal governments to identify the boundaries for federal reservations through its annual Boundary and Annexation Survey. Federal reservations may cross state and all other area boundaries.