TPS SONY GRANT: NATIVE ISLANDS – RESERVATIONS AND SACRED LANDS IN THE AMERICAN WEST – The Photo Society

I sometimes found little difference between reservation land and the rest of the United States, as reservations are generally checkerboarded with regards to ownership and jurisdiction. Some land is tribal, other land might be county, state or federal. Often a reservation includes non-native mostly white populations who, due to economic status, generally inhabit the best and most valuable land. But reservations in general are often the best and most fertile land in a region, or even the homeland of a particular tribe, but an assigned location granted through American congressional and executive order. Still, there are areas where the cultural landscape is intact, such as with sacred sites.