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<citation>
<citeinfo>
<origin>Cartographic Products Management Branch</origin>
<pubdate>20000101</pubdate>
<title>1990 American Indian Areas/Alaska Native Areas</title>
<geoform>vector digital data</geoform>
<onlink>http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/na1990.html</onlink>
</citeinfo>
</citation>
<descript>
<abstract>
There are both legal and statistical American Indian,
and Alaska Native entities for which the U.S. Census
Bureau provides data for Census 2000. The legal
entities consist of federally recognized American Indian
reservations and off-reservation trust land areas, the
tribal subdivisions that can divide these entities, state
recognized American Indian reservations, and Alaska Native
Regional Corporations. The statistical entities are Alaska
Native village statistical areas, Oklahoma tribal statistical
areas, tribal designated statistical areas, and state
designated American Indian statistical areas. Tribal
subdivisions can exist within the statistical Oklahoma tribal
statistical areas.

In all cases, these areas are mutually exclusive in that
no American Indian, or Alaska Native can overlap another
tribal entity, except for tribal subdivisions, which
subdivide some American Indian entities, and Alaska Native
village statistical areas, which exist within Alaska Native
Regional Corporations. In some cases where more than one
tribe claims jurisdiction over an area, the U.S. Census
Bureau creates a joint use area as a separate entity to
define this area of dual claims.

The cartographic boundary files are a generalized extract from
the U.S. Census Bureau&apos;s TIGER database. Line
simplification/smoothing  was performed with a tolerance of
0.005 decimal degrees and a coordinate reduction using the
Douglas-Peucker method with a tolerance of 0.0003 decimal
degrees. Very small polygons were eliminated when the
combination of geographic codes existed elsewhere. The
geography was clipped back to the shoreline of the United
States, in contrast to TIGER/LineŽ which shows the full
extent of geography out to the 3-mile limit.
</abstract>
<purpose>
These generalized cartographic boundary files are originally
produced to support the spatial geographic infrastructure
for certain mapping functions within the Census Bureau&apos;s
American Fact Finder and in support of the LandView
Geographic Data Viewer. The generalized files have a much
smaller file size than the original file extraction from the
Census Bureau&apos;s TIGER database, resulting in faster download
and processing times.
</purpose>
</descript>
<timeperd>
<timeinfo>
<sngdate>
<caldate>19900101</caldate>
</sngdate>
</timeinfo>
<current>publication date</current>
</timeperd>
<status>
<progress>Complete</progress>
<update>As needed</update>
</status>
<spdom>
<bounding>
<westbc>172.46087000</westbc>
<eastbc>-65.22152710</eastbc>
<northbc>71.34294128</northbc>
<southbc>17.88511467</southbc>
</bounding>
</spdom>
<keywords>
<theme>
<themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Categories</themekt>
<themekey>boundaries</themekey>
</theme>
<theme>
<themekt>None</themekt>
<themekey>Cartographic</themekey>
<themekey>Boundary</themekey>
<themekey>generalized</themekey>
<themekey>government</themekey>
<themekey>boundaries</themekey>
<themekey>Alaska</themekey>
<themekey>statistical</themekey>
<themekey>Village</themekey>
<themekey>Native</themekey>
<themekey>ANVSA</themekey>
<themekey>American Indian Reservation</themekey>
<themekey>American Indian Off-Reservation Trust Land</themekey>
<themekey>Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area</themekey>
<themekey>State Designated American Indian Statistical Area</themekey>
<themekey>Tribal Designated Statistical Area</themekey>
<themekey>American Indian Tribal Subdivision</themekey>
</theme>
<theme>
<themekt>FGDC Framework Themes</themekt>
<themekey>FWGOVERNMENTALUNITS</themekey>
</theme>
<place>
<placekt>None</placekt>
<placekey>United</placekey>
<placekey>States</placekey>
<placekey>Alabama</placekey>
<placekey>Alaska</placekey>
<placekey>Arizona</placekey>
<placekey>Arkansas</placekey>
<placekey>California</placekey>
<placekey>Colorado</placekey>
<placekey>Connecticut</placekey>
<placekey>Delaware</placekey>
<placekey>DC</placekey>
<placekey>Florida</placekey>
<placekey>Georgia</placekey>
<placekey>Hawaii</placekey>
<placekey>Idaho</placekey>
<placekey>Illinois</placekey>
<placekey>Indiana</placekey>
<placekey>Iowa</placekey>
<placekey>Kansas</placekey>
<placekey>Kentucky</placekey>
<placekey>Louisiana</placekey>
<placekey>Maine</placekey>
<placekey>Maryland</placekey>
<placekey>Massachusetts</placekey>
<placekey>Michigan</placekey>
<placekey>Minnesota</placekey>
<placekey>Mississippi</placekey>
<placekey>Missouri</placekey>
<placekey>Montana</placekey>
<placekey>Nebraska</placekey>
<placekey>Nevada</placekey>
<placekey>New Hampshire</placekey>
<placekey>New Jersey</placekey>
<placekey>New Mexico</placekey>
<placekey>New York</placekey>
<placekey>North Carolina</placekey>
<placekey>North Dakota</placekey>
<placekey>Ohio</placekey>
<placekey>Oklahoma</placekey>
<placekey>Oregon</placekey>
<placekey>Pennsylvania</placekey>
<placekey>Rhode Island</placekey>
<placekey>South Carolina</placekey>
<placekey>South Dakota</placekey>
<placekey>Tennessee</placekey>
<placekey>Texas</placekey>
<placekey>Utah</placekey>
<placekey>Vermont</placekey>
<placekey>Virginia</placekey>
<placekey>Washington</placekey>
<placekey>West Virginia</placekey>
<placekey>Wisconsin</placekey>
<placekey>Wyoming</placekey>
</place>
</keywords>
<accconst>None</accconst>
<useconst>The boundaries in this file are for statistical purposes only. They do not represent legal boundaries.</useconst>
<ptcontac>
<cntinfo>
<cntorgp>
<cntorg>
U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division,
Geographic Products Management Branch
</cntorg>
</cntorgp>
<cntaddr>
<addrtype>mailing</addrtype>
<address>4700 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400</address>
<city>Washington</city>
<state>DC</state>
<postal>20233-7400</postal>
<country>US</country>
</cntaddr>
<cntaddr>
<addrtype>physical</addrtype>
<address>8903 Presidential Parkway, Room 520 WP1</address>
<city>Upper Marlboro</city>
<state>Maryland</state>
<postal>20772</postal>
<country>US</country>
</cntaddr>
<cntvoice>301-763-1128</cntvoice>
<cntfax>301-457-4710</cntfax>
<cntemail>tiger@census.gov</cntemail>
<hours>7am - 5pm EST</hours>
<cntinst>http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/CP_Contact.htm</cntinst>
</cntinfo>
</ptcontac>
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<metd>20030514</metd>
<metc>
<cntinfo>
<cntorgp>
<cntorg>
U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division,
Cartographic Products Management Branch
</cntorg>
</cntorgp>
<cntpos>
Cartographic Products Management Branch Metadata
Coordinator
</cntpos>
<cntaddr>
<addrtype>mailing</addrtype>
<address>4700 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400</address>
<city>Washington</city>
<state>DC</state>
<postal>20233-7400</postal>
<country>US</country>
</cntaddr>
<cntaddr>
<addrtype>physical</addrtype>
<address>8903 Presidential Parkway, Room 301 WP1</address>
<city>Upper Marlboro</city>
<state>Maryland</state>
<postal>20772</postal>
<country>US</country>
</cntaddr>
<cntvoice>301-763-1101</cntvoice>
<cntfax>301-457-4710</cntfax>
<cntemail>zachariah.meade.turner.iii@census.gov</cntemail>
<hours>7am - 5pm EST</hours>
<cntinst>http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/CP_Contact.htm</cntinst>
</cntinfo>
</metc>
<metstdn>
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial
Metadata
</metstdn>
<metstdv>FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
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