Land area
Land of the Seneka of Sandusky river in Ohio, ceded 1831 (area 163)
- 1817
Set aside as a reservation
By Treaty of the Maumee Rapids (Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie), 1817
- 1818
Set aside as a reservation
By Wyandot, Seneca, Shawnee, and Ottawa at St. Mary's, Ohio (1818)
- 1831
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Granted to the Seneca of Sandusky as 30,000 acres in 1817 and enlarged by 10,000 acres in 1818, then ceded to the United States in February 1831. The area covers about 46 thousand acres in what is now Ohio.
How it was taken: a removal treaty. The OSU treaty text provides for exchange of Ohio lands and removal west of the Mississippi, which it says the Seneca solicited.
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:
- Cayuga Nation
- Seneca-Cayuga Nation
- Seneca Nation of Indians
- Tonawanda Band of Seneca
- Haudenosaunee (Six Nations)
Working with these nations
- Oneida Indian Nation Nation government About 18,000 acres in trust (2022 est.), 25,000-acre cap under 2013 agreement
- Rematriation Native-led Indigenous women-led media, education, community advocacy Give on their site Website
- The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Allied land trust Funder/partner in several tribal land returns 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
- 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.
Agreements recorded for this land 3
Nations named for this land 2, matched by the Forest Service, under review
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1817-09-29primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1817-09-29primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1818-09-17primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1818-09-17primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1831-02-28primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Ohio (detail) (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
- 163
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1817-09-29; 1818-09-17; 1831-02-28
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Seneka of Sandusky river
- States
- OH
- Counties
- Sandusky; Seneca
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Ohio (detail)
- 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.
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