Land area
Land of the Great and Little Osage in several states, ceded 1825 (area 123)
- 1825
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Ceded by the Great and Little Osage in 1825, giving up lands in Missouri, Arkansas and a large area west of them, reaching into Kansas and Oklahoma. The area covers about 47 million acres in what is now Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Osage as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The Oklahoma State treaty text records a negotiated cession in St. Louis; the Kansapedia article describes the Osage losing land through repeated treaties but does not call this one coerced.
Today, The Osage Nation carries the history of the people named here.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
Links marked “suggested” were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Located in 4
Nations named for this land 2, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Osagesuggested
- The Osage Nationsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Osage at St. Louis (1825)1825suggested
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1825-06-02primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1825-06-02primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Arkansas 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Missouri 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Kansas 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Indian Territory 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- USDA Forest Service, Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States (digitized Royce maps)reference work
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 123
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1825-06-02
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Great and Little Osage
- States
- AR; KS; MO; OK
- Counties
- Adair; Alfalfa; Allen; Anderson; Barton; Bates; Benton; Blaine; Bourbon; Butler; Canadian; Cass; Chase; Cherokee; Cleveland; Coffey; Craig; Crawford; Creek; Delaware; Dewey; Dickinson; Edwards; Ellis; Ellsworth; Finney; Ford; Franklin; Garfield; Grant; Gray; Greenwood; Harper; Harvey; Hodgeman; Hughes; Jackson; Jasper; Kay; Kingfisher; Lane; Lincoln; Linn; Logan; Lyon; Major; Marion; Mayes; McDonald; McIntosh; McPherson; Miami; Morris; Muskogee; Ness; Newton; Noble; Nowata; Okfuskee; Oklahoma; Osage; Ottawa; Pawnee; Payne; Pottawattamie; Reno; Rice; Rogers; Rush; Russell; Scott; Sedgwick; Seminole; Stafford; Tulsa; Vernon; Wabaunsee; Wagoner; Washington; Woods; Woodson; Woodward
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Arkansas 1; Missouri 1; Kansas 1; Indian Territory 1
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium