Statewide coverage of 1870 American Indian Reservations. Reservation boundaries cross into the adjacent states. For example, the Navajo Nation crosses into New Mexico. Population data is from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Purpose
To use in GIS systems for historical study and analysis. This datasets is made available to interested persons through the University of Arizona's instance of Open Geoportal. It has been provided to assist educators, students, researchers, and policy makers in mapping and/or analysis applications.
Bounding Box
West
-114.698884
East
-108.517655
North
37.024666
South
33.635169
ISO Topic Category
society
boundaries
Theme Keyword
Population
American Indian Reservations
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.
Place Keyword
Arizona
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Place Keyword
Navajo
State of Arizona
Colorado River Indian Tribes Administration
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNIS
Temporal Keyword
1870
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
Chris Kollen, University of Arizona Library
Point of Contact
Contact
Chris Kollen
Position Name
Data Curation Librarian
Delivery Point
P.O. Box 210055
City
Tucson
Administrative Area
AZ
Postal Code
85721-0055
Country
U.S.
Email
kollen@email.arizona.edu
Phone
(520) 305-0495
Spatial Reference Information
Reference System Identifier
Code
NAD83 / UTM zone 12N (EPSG:26912)
Code Space
EPSG
Version
7.9
Data Quality Information
Absolute External Positional Accuracy
Result
Accuracy ~50 meters (Scale at 1:126,720) to 1 km (Scale 1:2,000,000)
Lineage
Process Step
Description
Dataset renamed from 1870_reservations.shp to Arizona_AmerIndianReservations_1870.shp by Ben Hickson with the University of Arizona Library. Metadata fields corresponding the Open Geoportal Working Group Best Practices Guide (http://opengeoportal.org/working-groups/metadata/) were also updated.
