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erative agreements with many tribes in the buyback program, though others say they want the federal government to run the program.
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Reservations targeted in consolidation program
The Associated Press

• These are the American Indian reservations the Department of Interior plans to focus on in the next phase of a $1.9 billion buyback program of fractionated land parcels to turn over to tribal governments. The program is part of a $3.4 billion settlement over mismanaged money held in trust by the U.S. government for individual Indian landowners.
• -- Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana.
• -- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota.
• -- Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D'Alene Reservation, Idaho.
• -- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana.
• -- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, Oregon.
• -- Crow Tribe, Montana.
• -- Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana.
• -- Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona.
• -- Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, Washington.
• -- Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, Washington.
• -- Navajo Nation, Arizona.
• -- Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana.
• -- Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
• -- Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Kansas.
• -- Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma.
• -- Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, Washington.
• -- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota.
• -- Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, North Dakota and South Dakota.
• -- Squaxin Island Tribe of the Squaxin Island Reservation, Washington.
• -- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota and South Dakota.
• Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation, Washington.
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