User:Kartchnerj/Sandbox Indian

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A
Agency -- the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, usually responsible one or more tribes residing on a reservation

B
Band -- a subdivision of a tribe

BIA -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs in the United States.

N
Nation -- after the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, a term often used to mean a tribe which had organized under that Act

O
Office of Indian Affairs -- the forerunner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

R
Rancheria -- a term used almost exclusively in California for a small reservation, often to describe a parcel of land purchased by a tribe and subsequently recognized by the federal or state government.

Reservation -- a parcel of land reserved by the United States government upon which a tribe or tribes were to reside

T
Tribe -- a term applied by non-Indians to a group of Native Americans, usually of a common linguistic or cultural stock