Acoma Indian Reservation

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Houses at Acoma Pueblo, 1941. Photo by Ansel Adams
Houses at Acoma Pueblo, 1941. Photo by Ansel Adams

Main article: Acoma Pueblo

The Acoma Indian Reservation is located in parts of Cibola, Socorro, and Catron counties, New Mexico, USA, and covers 1,541.033 km² (594.996 sq mi). The number of tribal members is about 6000. The reservation borders the Laguna Indian Reservation to the east and is near El Malpais National Monument due west. A total of 2,802 people were living on the reservation's lands, as reported in the 2000 census.

The Acoma Pueblo is the heart of the reservation and is held as the oldest continuously inhabited place in the United States.[1]

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  1. ^ Weatherford, J. McIver (1988). Indian givers: how the Indians of the Americas transformed the world. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 225. ISBN 0-449-90496-2.