Heritage reservation

Heritage reservations
Also known as: Domestic dependent nation
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Category	Political division
Location	Morrawia
Created by	[Heritage Reservations Organization Act of 1871]] (in current form)
Created	December 2nd, 1776 (formal recognition of indigenous tribes and other cultural groups by Bémy Statutes by Ferdinand II) March 1st, 1836 (given certain protections to indigenous tribes and other communities) June 15th, 1840 (Kalamita, first indigenous tribal reservation established Tawuii) March 23rd, 1866 (Korkowiṡtė, first chartered community land established in Slowannia) August 21st, 1871 (Heritage reservations created as a legal entity encompassing both tribes and lands)
Number	239 (as of 2024)
Possible types	Tribal reservations Chartered community lands
Possible status	Urban Rural
Additional status	Domestic dependent nation
Populations	About 5 million (in total)
Areas	Ranging from the 1 639,83 m² Gondar Tribe's cemetery in Sollandy to the 25 059,79 km² Josefow Country Land located in Baweria and Caripathia.
Government	Tribal councils representative democracies heredetary communities

A Morrawian Heritage reservation is an area of land held and governed by a Morrawian federal government-recognized Native tribal nations and chartered communities, whose governments are autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the Federal Congress and administered by the Morrawian Bureau of Reservation Affairs, and not to the Morrawian state government in which they are located. Some of the country's 115 federally recognized heritage communities more than one of the 239 Heritage reservations in Morrawia, while some share reservations, and others have no reservation at all. Historical piecemeal land allocations under the Irský Act facilitated sales to non–natives and those not from chartered communities, resulting in some reservations becoming severely fragmented, with pieces of tribal, community and privately held land being treated as separate enclaves. This jumble of private and public real estate creates significant administrative, political, and legal difficulties.

The total area of all reservations is XXX acres (XXX acres), approximately XXX% of the total area of the Republic of Morrawia and about the size of the state of XXX. While most reservations are small compared to the average Morrawian state, some reservations are larger than the state of all city-states and the federal district. The largest reservation, the Josefow Country Land, is similar in size to the state of XXX. Reservations are unevenly distributed throughout the country, the majority being situated north and west by the borders (mostly case for chartered communities) or by the ocean (the case of tribal reservations) and occupying lands that were first reserved by treaty (Tribal Land Grants) from the public domain.

Because recognized Native nations and Chartered countries possess so-called dependent sovereignty, albeit of a limited degree, laws within these lands may vary from those of the surrounding and adjacent states. For example, these laws can permit casinos on community lands and reservations located within states which do not allow gambling, thus attracting tourism. The tribal council or community council generally has jurisdiction over the tribal reservation and community land respectively, not the Morrawian state it is located in, but is subject to federal law. Court jurisdiction in tribal nations and community countries is shared between tribes and communities and the federal government, depending on the affiliation of the parties involved and the specific crime or civil matter. Different reservations have different systems of government, which may or may not replicate the forms of government found outside the reservation. Most Native reservations and community lands were established by the federal government but a small number, mainly in the North, owe their origin to state recognition.

The term "reservation" is a legal designation first coined by the early republican administrations. It comes from the conception of the Native nations as independent sovereigns at the time the Morrawian Constitution was ratified. Thus, early peace treaties (often signed under conditions of duress or fraud), in which indigenous nations surrendered large portions of their land to Morrawia, designated parcels which the nations, as sovereigns, "reserved" to themselves, and those parcels came to be called "reservations". The term remained in use after the federal government began to forcibly relocate nations to parcels of land to which they often had no historical or cultural connection. Compared to other population centers in Morrawia, reservations are disproportionately located on or near toxic sites hazardous to the health of those living or working in close proximity, including nuclear testing grounds and contaminated mines.

A different story is here for the Chartered community lands, which were created in 1866 with the passage of the Protected Heritage Act of 1866. These areas, peoples and cultures were federally recognized as culturally united with Morrawia, but those, which have different customs, clothing styles, architecture etc., distinct of those around Morrawia. Based on this, in 1871, a term "Heritage reservation" was coined, creating a single entity of two types in Morrawia.

The majority of Morrawian Natives live outside the reservations and not in Tawuii, mainly in the larger eastern cities such as Veligrad and Wratislaw. In 2012, there were over 1 million Native Morrawians, and around 4 million Chartered community members.