Tribal & Territorial

The only U.S. territory whose people are U.S. nationals rather than citizens at birth, a South Pacific territory that preserves traditional Samoan land and chiefly systems

The legal obligation of the United States to protect tribal lands, resources, and self-government, rooted in treaties and in its role as trustee of tribal assets

An organized U.S. territory in the western Pacific, home to about 170,000 American citizens and major U.S. military bases

A Pacific commonwealth of about 47,000 people that chose union with the United States by covenant in 1975, after decades as a UN trust territory

The largest U.S. territory, a self-governing commonwealth of about 3.2 million American citizens without voting representation in Congress or electoral votes

The federal capital district, governed by its own elected officials under the ultimate authority of Congress, with no voting representation in Congress

A series of Supreme Court decisions beginning in 1901 that created the doctrine of unincorporated territories, where the Constitution applies only in part

The governments of the 574 federally recognized tribes, sovereign nations that make and enforce their own laws and maintain a government-to-government relationship with the United States

The five inhabited territories and several uninhabited islands under U.S. sovereignty, home to about 3.6 million people with limited representation in Washington

A Caribbean territory of about 87,000 American citizens, purchased from Denmark in 1917, with its own elected governor and legislature