Selected Native Land Reserves
North AmericaCulturalPoliticalGeopoliticalLand set aside for native or aboriginal groups in selected countries
USGSLands belonging to indigenous groups shaded yellow across various region, including Canada, the United States, Pakistan, and Australia, without naming the specific groups.
In Canada, numerous small reserves of First Nation peoples are scattered across southern Canada, primarily west of Ontario, while large tracts are found in northern Canada, particularly in Nunavut, the Northwest Territory, and Yukon. In the eastern United States, Native American lands are represented as a few small enclaves. In the western United States, large Indian reservations are found in states such as Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon, with a few small scattered reservations in California. In Pakistan, the land reserve includes the federally administered tribal areas along the country’s border with Afghanistan. In Australia, the largest contiguous area of Aboriginal lands occupies much of the west-central part of the country, with smaller areas in the north, particularly in Arnhem Land and the York Peninsula bordering the Gulf of Carpentaria. Western Australia also has several smaller tracts of native land reserves.
Selected Native Land Reserves | Lightning Frequency | <0.1 flashes/km²/year | 0.1 flashes/km²/year | 0.2 flashes/km²/year | 0.4 flashes/km²/year | 0.6 flashes/km²/year | 0.8 flashes/km²/year | 1 flash/km²/year | 2 flashes/km²/year | 4 flashes/km²/year | 6 flashes/km²/year | 8 flashes/km²/year | 10 flashes/km²/year | 20 flashes/km²/year | 30 flashes/km²/year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alaska | 6.63% | 1.78% | 25.5% | 0.226% | 5.17% | |||||||||||
Arizona | 1.79% | 1.13% | 23.6% | 20.0% | 37.0% | 18.2% | ||||||||||
Utah | 2.73% | 22.2% | 65.3% | 0.130% | ||||||||||||
Yukon | 1.29% | 2.57% | 1.17% | 39.3% | 42.1% | 0.676% | 0.532% | 2.01% | ||||||||
Northwest Territories | 2.81% | 10.4% | 11.3% | 1.93% | 1.61% | 13.9% | 14.4% | 4.36% | 8.69% | |||||||
District of Columbia | 100% | |||||||||||||||
Florida | 0.168% | 52.7% | 47.1% | |||||||||||||
Idaho | 1.51% | 8.51% | 90.0% | |||||||||||||
New Hampshire | 77.0% | 23.0% | ||||||||||||||
Rhode Island | 100% | |||||||||||||||
Vermont | 4.97% | 95.0% | ||||||||||||||
Washington | 3.24% | 1.04% | 10.6% | 19.8% | 20.2% | 12.1% | 35.6% | 0.648% | ||||||||
Wyoming | 3.31% | 48.7% | 16.7% | 16.6% | 10.4% | 7.61% | ||||||||||
Nunavut | 1.10% | 41.3% | 36.7% | 7.71% | 1.80% | 1.53% | 0.139% | |||||||||
Montana | 2.86% | 1.84% | 16.7% | 6.56% | 12.0% | 2.35% | ||||||||||
Maine | 5.45% | 71.9% | ||||||||||||||
North Dakota | 2.39% | 5.40% | 24.2% | 48.6% | 17.6% | |||||||||||
Kentucky | 100% | |||||||||||||||
Nova Scotia | 8.11% | 10.6% | 36.1% | 17.3% | 27.8% | |||||||||||
Virginia | 0.585% | 33.4% | 66.0% | |||||||||||||
Delaware | 1.09% | 21.6% | 74.1% | 3.24% | ||||||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 2.52% | 8.96% | 20.3% | 68.2% | ||||||||||||
Saskatchewan | 0.267% | 0.717% | 31.5% | 16.7% | 3.54% | |||||||||||
Mississippi | 53.6% | 46.4% | ||||||||||||||
West Virginia | 90.8% | 9.25% | ||||||||||||||
Nebraska | 2.93% | 89.3% | 7.74% | |||||||||||||
Texas | 1.17% | 8.70% | 65.9% | 24.2% | ||||||||||||
Missouri | 97.2% | 2.76% | ||||||||||||||
Louisiana | 100% | |||||||||||||||
Hawaii | 0.113% | 0.444% | 32.9% | 60.0% | ||||||||||||
North Carolina | 100% | |||||||||||||||
Oregon | 1.08% | 0.565% | 3.81% | 5.52% | 5.86% | 3.52% | 49.6% | 23.8% | ||||||||
New Brunswick | 0.276% | 0.234% | 58.0% | |||||||||||||
Alabama | 41.8% | 58.2% | ||||||||||||||
New Mexico | 5.56% | 7.94% | 33.3% | 53.7% | ||||||||||||
Kansas | 96.1% | 3.88% | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin | 0.368% | 53.9% | 28.7% | 12.9% | 3.74% | |||||||||||
British Columbia | 1.64% | 6.95% | 12.6% | 20.1% | 4.57% | 5.28% | 0.164% | 6.19% | ||||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 5.05% | 7.84% | 8.94% | 30.5% | 12.3% | 3.57% | 0.308% | |||||||||
New Jersey | 9.73% | 90.3% | ||||||||||||||
South Carolina | 85.1% | 14.9% | ||||||||||||||
Michigan | 1.83% | 31.7% | 16.4% | 14.6% | 8.66% | |||||||||||
Alberta | 22.8% | 73.1% | 3.13% | |||||||||||||
Connecticut | 77.5% | 20.8% | 1.09% | |||||||||||||
Pennsylvania | 7.74% | 34.9% | 57.3% | |||||||||||||
Colorado | 1.61% | 3.18% | 32.7% | 15.2% | 10.5% | 30.1% | 8.34% | |||||||||
Nevada | 1.83% | 39.4% | 47.0% | 11.8% | ||||||||||||
Massachusetts | 2.27% | 79.0% | 18.5% | |||||||||||||
Georgia | 48.4% | 51.6% | ||||||||||||||
New York | 16.1% | 65.1% | 18.0% | 0.137% | ||||||||||||
Maryland | 2.23% | 17.7% | 58.3% | 21.7% | ||||||||||||
Québec | 11.0% | 4.90% | 11.5% | 3.83% | 3.39% | 3.67% | 19.7% | 17.8% | 0.183% | |||||||
Manitoba | 2.65% | 4.40% | 2.91% | 25.0% | 48.7% | 10.4% | ||||||||||
Oklahoma | 3.48% | 64.4% | 35.6% | |||||||||||||
Tennessee | 100% | |||||||||||||||
Ontario | 2.58% | 3.28% | 0.872% | 19.2% | 2.31% | 2.14% | 0.326% | 0.285% | ||||||||
California | 2.29% | 10.6% | 16.3% | 5.69% | 2.96% | 35.4% | 15.6% | 1.52% | ||||||||
Arkansas | 15.7% | 84.3% | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 1.77% | 2.09% | 52.0% | 45.9% | ||||||||||||
Ohio | 23.4% | 76.6% | ||||||||||||||
Indiana | 100% | |||||||||||||||
Minnesota | 1.59% | 13.4% | 3.05% | 20.4% | 21.8% | 9.11% | ||||||||||
Iowa | 5.30% | 6.65% | 14.4% | 73.6% | ||||||||||||
Illinois | 1.50% | 98.5% | ||||||||||||||