Re-introducing the Lakota Lands Information System

The Pine Ridge Land Information System (PRLIS) is a web-based land information system designed to assist members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe to access information about their lands and resources. The PRLIS was developed Village Earth (a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit in partnership with the Oglala Sioux Tribe Land Office and made possible with support from the Indian Land Tenure Foundation.

Allotment Timeline on the Pine Ridge Reservation

Allotment on the Pine Ridge Reservation

About this Dashboard This data dashboard, developed by the Native Lands Advocacy Project, summarizes allotment data for the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and Nebraska and made available to the public through the Bureau of Land Management’s General Land Office website. 0 Allotments 0 Years of Coverage 0 Data Visualizations 0 Possible Visualizations About the […]

Leasing of Native Lands by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs

About this Dashboard This data dashboard displays the acres of native lands leased by the Bureau of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1985 and can be filtered by Native land area and year. 0 Native Land Areas 0 Years of Coverage 0 k Possible Visualizations About the Data Village Earth with support from the Indian […]

Data on Native Land Acreage and Leasing

About this Dashboard This data dashboard summarizes results from a comprehensive search for data availability on Native land areas and leasing of Native lands between 1887 and 2020. About the Data This data displays the years of data acquired by the Native Lands Advocacy Project as part of an exhaustive search of libraries, government publications, […]

Total Area of US Native Lands in Acres: 1912-1984

About this Dashboard This data dashboard summarizes land area data from the Annual Report of the Commission of Indian Affairs for the years 1912-1920 and the BIA Annual Report of Indian Lands for the years 1966, 1975, 1978, 1979,  1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1983, and 1984 and can be filtered by one or more native […]

The Status of Native Lands

THE STATUS OF NATIVE LANDS The US Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is responsible for the administration and management of 68.5 million surface acres and 57 million acres of subsurface mineral estates held in trust by the United States Government for Native Americans and tribes. But how well are these assets being managed and what data exists […]

Bureau of Indian Affairs Land Area Totals for US Native Lands for 2019

About this Dashboard This data dashboard presents 2019 land area totals from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs for Native Lands for 491 native lands and off-reservation trust lands. The data includes acreage totals for Fee, Trust and Restricted lands broken down by Individual and Tribal for each of the 491 native land area. 0 […]