federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is sovereign, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.
Ranging from the 1.32-acre (0.534 hectare) Pit River Tribe's cemetery in California to the 17 million–acre (64,750 square kilometer) Navajo Nation Reservation located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah 326 (map includes the 310 as of May 1996)Ībout 1 million (total) – 165,158 ( Navajo Nation)
