Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This dataset consists of polygons representing Indian Reservations in the County of San Diego as documented by the County of San Diego Assessor's Office, Mapping Division. An Indian Reservation is an area of land managed by a native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. The polygons are intedned to represent those lands recogonized as part of the Indian Nation by the Bureau of Indian Affarirs (BIA). The data does not include parcels that may be owned by a Tribe but which are not officially recogonized as reservation lands by BIA.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Because tribes possess tribal sovereignty, even though it is limited, laws on tribal lands vary from the surrounding area. These laws can permit legal casinos on reservations for example. The tribal council, not the local or federal government, generally has jurisdiction over reservations. Most Indian reservations were established by the federal government. The name "reservation" comes from the conception of the Indian tribes as independent sovereigns at the time of the U.S. Constitution was ratified. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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County of San Diego Assessor's Office, Mapping Divsion