Land purchases for tribes expands to 63 reservations

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The U.S. Interior Department says it’s adding 63 American Indian reservations in 16 states to a $1.9 program that seeks to restore land to tribal ownership:

- Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma

- Apache Tribe, Oklahoma

- Blue Lake Rancheria, California

- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma

- Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma

- Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma

- Colorado River Indian Tribe of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona and California

- Comanche Nation, Oklahoma

- Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon

- Eastern Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma

- Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin

- Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Reservation, California

- Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, California

- Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin

- Hoopa Valley Tribe, California

- Hopi Tribe, Arizona

- Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation, Washington

- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan

- Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas

- Kiowa Indian Tribe, Oklahoma

- Kootenai Tribe, Idaho

- Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Wisconsin

- Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Wisconsin

- Minnesota Chippewa - Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake), Minnesota

- Minnesota Chippewa - Grand Portage Band, Minnesota

- Minnesota Chippewa - Leech Lake Band, Minnesota

- Minnesota Chippewa - Mille Lacs Band, Minnesota

- Minnesota Chippewa - White Earth Band, Minnesota

- Morongo Band of Mission Indians, California

- Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Washington

- Nisqually Indian Tribe, Washington

- Omaha Tribe, Nebraska

- Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma

- Pala Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pala Reservation, California

- Pawnee Nation, Oklahoma

- Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California

- Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico

- Quileute Tribe of the Quileute Reservation, Washington

- Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Wisconsin

- Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota

- Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Rincon Reservation, California

- Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska

- Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma

- Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, Michigan

- Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska

- Skokomish Indian Tribe, Washington

- Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota

- Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation, Washington

- Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin

- Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation, Washington

- Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, California

- The Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma

- The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma

- The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma

- The Seminole Nation, Oklahoma

- Tohono O’odham Nation, Arizona

- Tulalip Tribes, Washington

- Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota

- Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah

- Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

- Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker River Reservation, Nevada

- Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California

- Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico