Chapter 2 - 2.2
Chapter 2: The Indian reservation today
2.2. Population, the number of the reservations
There was a different number of Reservations in the United States of America over the years. According to the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the number of reservations in the United States in 1908, including the 19 Spanish grants to the Pueblo Indians, was 161, aggregating 52,013,010 acres (Indian Reservation History 2011). At the present time, the area of reservation makes up around 52.7 million acres which account for 2,21 percent of the United States’ lands. (Indian Reservation U.S. Twenty first century). On these lands “there are about 310 Indian reservations in the United States, meaning not all of the country's 550-plus recognized tribes have a reservation — some tribes have more than one reservation, some share reservations, while others have none”(Indian Reservation). In terms of the population some reservations can be pointed out as more densely populated than the others. To this group belong such reservations as: Navajo with around 125,000 people on its lands, Pine Ridge which populations account for 14,484 people and the Fort Apache where the number of people make up about 11,854 (Terry American Indian Population by Reservations and Statistical Areas).