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Colorado River Agency:
- Chemehuevi Tribe
- Colorado River Indian Tribes
- Fort Mojave Tribe
Eastern Nevada Agency:
- Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone
Battle Mountain Band
- Elko Band
- South Fork Band
- Wells Band
Ely Shoshone Tribe
- Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Indian Reservation
- Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation
- Duckwater Shoshone Tribe
Fort Apache Agency:
- White Mountain Apache Tribe
Fort Yuma Agency:
- Cocopah Tribe
- Quechan Tribe
Hopi Agency:
- Hopi Tribe
Papago Agency:
- Tohono O'odham
Pima Agency:
- Ak Chin Indian Community
- Gila River Indian Community
Salt River Agency:
- Fort McDowell Yavapai Tribe
- Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community
- Pascua Yaqui Tribe
San Carlos Agency:
- San Carlos Apache Tribe
Truxton Canon Agency:
- Havasupai Tribe
- Hualapai Tribe
- Tonto Apache Tribe
- Yavapai-Apache Nation
- Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
Uintah & Ouray Agency:
- Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians
- Ute Indian Tribe
Western Nevada Agency:
- Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California
- Carson Community Council
- Reno-Sparks Community Council
- Stewart Community Council
- Woodfords Community Council
- Dresslerville Community Council
Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe Lovelock Paiute Tribe Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Walker River Paiute Tribe Winnemucca Paiute and Shoshone Tribe Summit Lake Paiute Tribe Yerington Paiute TribeYomba Shoshone Tribe
Southern Paiute Agency
- Kaibab Band of Paiutes
- Las Vegas Paiute Tribe
- Moapa Band of Paiutes
- San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe
- Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
- Cedar Band
- Indian Peaks Band
- Kanosh Band
- Koosharem Band
- Shivwits Band
Where were most Native American reservations located?
Though Alaska is home to nearly half of the country's 574 federally recognized tribes, the Last Frontier is home to just one reservation. Nearly one in six Alaskans is Native American, the highest proportion of any U.S. state.
Where did Native Americans live in the West?
The western part of the present-day United States, extending from the top corner of Washington, through California and into parts of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho, was home to a diverse array of Native American groups. They lived off the region's rich natural resources.
When were reservations for Native Americans created in the American West?
In 1851, Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which created the Indian reservation system and provided funds to move Indian tribes onto farming reservations and hopefully keep them under control.
What Indian tribes lived in the West?
The Indians in the Southwest and Far West were the Navajo, the Nez Perce, and the Apache which were also in the Plains Indians tribes. The Indians in the Southwest and Far West, such as the Navajo, lived in what became Arizona and New Mexico. Northeastern Oregon was home to the Nez Perce tribe.