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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. •
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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