Land area
Reservation of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Nebraska (area 154)
- 1830
Set aside as a reservation
By Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1830), Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Missouri
In the record
Set aside in 1830 on the Great and Little Nemaha in Nebraska for Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Yankton and Santee people of mixed descent (called half-breeds in the treaty); not a cession. The area covers about 23 thousand acres in what is now Nebraska.
The 1899 record names Iowa, Meskwaki (Fox), Omaha, Oto, Sauk (Sac) and 3 more as the people of this land.
This area was not ceded. The 1899 record shows it as a reservation the nation kept, at least until the record ends in 1894.
Today, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska and 17 more carry 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
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Working with these nations
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate) Nation government Pe' Sla (1,942 acres, Nov 30, 2012)
- Owamniyomni Okhodayapi (formerly Friends of the Falls) Native-led Dakota-led restoration and return of care for sacred St. Anthony Falls (Owamniyomni) site in Minneapolis, with… Give on their site Website
- Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) Native-led Youth programs Website
- Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (Lakota Land Systems) Native-led Lakota-led regenerative community development on Pine Ridge: Lakota Land Systems Give on their site Website
- Siċaŋġu Co (Sicangu Community Development Corporation; Wolakota Buffalo Range) Native-led Sicangu Lakota economic engine incl. Wolakota Buffalo Range, food sovereignty initiative, local foods Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Great Plains Action Society Native-led ReMatriation, land defense, Protect the Sacred, regenerative economy, civic engagement in Iowa and eastern Nebraska Give on their site Website
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
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
- Honor the Earth Native-led Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice 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.
Nations named for this land 32
- Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montanamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Crow Creek Sioux Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Dakotamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakotamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Iowaas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraskamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Iowa Tribe of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Lower Brule Sioux Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesotamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Meskwaki (Fox)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Oglala Sioux Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
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- Omahaas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Omaha Tribe of Nebraskamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Otoas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesotamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate)matched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraskamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraskamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Sauk (Sac)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesotamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Sioux (as named in treaty records)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Sissetonas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyatematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Spirit Lake Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Upper Sioux Community, Minnesotamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Wahpetonas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Yankton Sioux Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1830-07-15primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1830-07-15primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Nebraska (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
- 154
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1830-07-15
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Iowa; Medewakanton; Missouri; Omaha; Oto; Sauk and Fox; Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands); Wahpekuta
- States
- NE
- Counties
- Richardson
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Nebraska
- 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