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Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Settlers awaiting the official signal that they may cross onto the Fort Hall Indian Reservation and claim tribal land deemed “surplus” by the U.S. government, Pocatello, Idaho, 1902.
Native American reservations in the United States
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Fletcher, Alice Cunningham
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American anthropologist