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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Source: U.S. Department of the Interior.
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