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This work, therefore, is a tribute to those few tribes that inhabit the Greater Southwest. In 2016 there were 566 federally recognized tribes in the United States. State recognized tribes amount to 130. California tribes or rancherías number 108. Arizona has 22 federally recognized Indian communities. While the total indigenous population residing on the reservations may be close to 2.9 million (with another 3 plus million off the reservation), and even though part of their land and identities has been restored, only 2% of the topography of the United States is Indian Country today. The narrative of this work is primarily focused on that time when close to 100% of the terrain of the Southwest was Indian Country (see map, Figure 0-1). The colonizer’s “holocaust” changed all of this by creating the “Lost Worlds of 1863.”

ssss1 The Progression of Land Loss. Reconfiguration by Geraldine Raat of information found in Peter Nabokov’s “The Closing In” in Part Four of Native Americans: An Illustrated History (Atlanta: Turner Publishing Inc., 1993), p. 369.