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Refrigerators and telephones are two amenities no household can do without, right? Wrong — especially for American Indians living on reservations.
This Brief, one of a series, uses data collected in the 1990 Census of Population and Housing to examine housing characteristics of American Indian households on reservations and their associated trust lands. The term “American Indian households” includes all housing units where the householder has identified himself or herself as American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut.
This Brief looks at the degree to which they lacked complete kitchen facilities, telephones, and motor vehicles. It also examines how they heated their homes. The Brief compares them with both American Indian households not living on reservations and all households in the United States.
There are 314 reservations and trust lands in the United States. Trust lands are property associated with a particular American Indian reservation or tribe, held in trust by the Federal Government. In this Brief, the term “reservation” also includes trust lands.
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