Approximately 29,000 miles are under the jurisdiction of BIA and tribes and another 73,000 miles are under State and local ownership. Public roads provide access to and within Indian reservations, Indian trust land, restricted Indian land, and Alaska native villages. Because most tribal lands are considered independent government entities, coordination and uniformity are not always clear. These roads may be a mix of US government, public, tribal, and some private roads. Wikipedia maintains a list of the largest Indian reservations and the states in which they are located. Twelve of the reservations are larger than Rhode Island. Navajo Nation is the largest and is about the same size as West Virginia. While the map shows only only the continental United States, reservations exists in Alaska and Hawaii. There are about 310 such reservations as reviewed by the United States Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). There are a large number of roads, particularly in the western half of the United States, that are located on American Indian Reservations.
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