At roughly 17,544,500 acres (71,000 km 2; 27,413 sq mi), the Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, exceeding the size of ten U.S. states. It is one of the few reservations whose lands overlap the nation's traditional homelands.

The Navajo Nation today is roughly 17 million acres or 27,413 sq. miles in northwestern New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, and southeastern Utah, making it the largest reservation in the United States.

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The Navajo Reservation, the largest in the country, sprawls across the upper northeast corner of Arizona and into parts of New Mexico and Utah. At 27,000 square miles, it is approximately the size of the state of West Virginia; in fact, it is larger than 10 states.

After four years of living in an overcrowded and unsanitary reservation, a treaty in 1868 allowed the Navajo to return to their original land, where they developed a barter economy. In the 1920s, oil and mineral exploration started, bringing wealth, as well as environmental problems, to the Navajo Nation and to Utah.

The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, comprising about 16 million acres, or about 25,000 square miles, approximately the size of the state of West Virginia.

On a tan background, the outline of the present Nation is shown in copper color with the original 1868 Treaty Reservation in Dark Brown. At the cardinal points in the tan field are the four sacred mountains. A rainbow symbolizing Navajo sovereignty …

The Navajo Nation has access to on-Reservation surface water, the amount of surface water available for use depends on location, drainage area, precipitation and quality. Surface water sources for the main Reservation include the mainstem of the Colorado River, the Little Colorado River, the San Juan River, and ephemeral streams and washes.

Feb 1, 2025 · Nearly 425,000 Americans claimed at least partial Navajo (self-name Diné) descent in the 2020 U.S. census, with more than 315,000 solely claiming Navajo descent. The Navajo Nation Reservation is the largest reservation in the United States with 16 million acres stretching between New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Traditional culture

The Navajo Nation reservation land base came into being at different times. Lands established following hwéeldi in the 1868 Treaty on the signature of the U.S. President gave rise to the “trust responsibility” of the U.S. federal executive branch based on the promises in the Treaty itself.