Q: How many Native American reservations are in the U.S.? What is the total number of residents?
—Don White, Atlanta
A: There were 324 federal Indian reservations – covering about 56.2 million acres – according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
The Navajo Nation Reservation, which is in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, is the largest at 16 million acres, the Bureau of Indian Affairs states on its website (bia.gov).
The Census Bureau provides statistics for 617 American Indian and Alaska Native legal and statistical areas, which include off-reservation trust lands, tribal designated statistical areas, state Indian reservations and state designated statistical areas.
There are approximately 5.2 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives in the U.S. About 22 percent (or 1.14 million) lived in “American Indian areas” in 2010, the Census Bureau stated.
Q: I just read the Ross Harris story in a recent AJC. Why was he denied bond?
—Jim Clyburn, Clermont
A: A Cobb County detective testified at a hearing last July that Harris was basically leading a second life and was thought to be a flight risk.
Police said Harris had sexted at least six different women, including at least one teenager, on the day he left his son, Cooper, in his car as he went to work instead of dropping him off at his day care center on June 18, 2014.
Police say Harris also never called 911 after he discovered his 22-month-old son Cooper that afternoon.
He was charged with malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of child cruelty and three counts related to the sexting.
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