- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
The Fort Berthold Indian Reservation is a U.S.
Indian reservation inNorth Dakota that is home for theThree Affiliated Tribes which consists of theMandan ,Arikara andHidatsa peoples. The reservation was created by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 with nearly 12 million acres (49,000 km²) in North Dakota,South Dakota ,Montana andWyoming . The current incarnation was created in 1870 by the U.S. government and is located on theMissouri River in McKenzie, Mountrail, Ward, McLean, Mercer and Dunn counties. The reservation presently consists of 988,000 acres (4,000 km²) of which 457,837 acres (1,853 km²) are owned by Native Americans, either as allotted land or directly by the tribe.The population of the reservation was 3776 out of 8400 registered tribe members. Unemployment was at 42%.
In 1951 with the construction of
Garrison Dam approximately a quarter of the reservation was flooded to createLake Sakakawea . This flooding required the reservation seat in New Town to be moved to its present location. The current reservation now hosts acasino built in 1993 in New Town as well as theFour Bears Bridge which opened in 2005.The 2000 census reported a population of 5,915 persons living on a land area of 3,415.923 km² (1,318.895 sq mi). With the creation of Lake Sakakawea there is also a significant amount of water area on the reservation, amounting to 683.182 km² (263.778 sq mi) or one-sixth of the reservation's surface area. Its largest communities are the cities of New Town and Parshall.
Communities
*Four Bears Village
*Mandaree
*New Town
*Parshall
*White ShieldReferences
* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CHECK_SEARCH_RESULTS=N&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-tree_id=4001&-transpose=N&-all_geo_types=N&-redoLog=false&-geo_id=14000US38025940100&-geo_id=14000US38053940100&-geo_id=14000US38055940300&-geo_id=14000US38057940300&-geo_id=14000US38061940100&-geo_id=14000US38061940200&-geo_id=14000US38061940300&-geo_id=14000US38101940300&-geo_id=25000US1160&-search_results=25000US1160&-_showChild=Y&-format=&-fully_or_partially=N&-_lang=en&-show_geoid=Y Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota] United States Census Bureau
External links
* [http://www.in-forum.com/specials/DyingTongues/graphics/demographics.pdf#search='fort%20berthold%20reservation' Info sheet on the Reservation from Dying Tongues] .
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