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Category: History & Society
Date:
1849 - present
Areas Of Involvement:
reservation
natural resource
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U.S. Department of the Interior, executive division of the U.S. federal government responsible for most of the country’s federally owned lands and natural resources, as well as reservation communities for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Created in 1849, it encompasses the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Minerals Management Service, the Office of Surface Mining, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Maren Goldberg.