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An American Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs...

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1758

8.29.1758

The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.

1901

8.6.1901

Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

1962

6.14.1962

The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.