Land area
Land of the Wyandot (band residing at Big Spring) in Ohio, ceded 1832 (area 171)
- 1818
Set aside as a reservation
By Wyandot, Seneca, Shawnee, and Ottawa at St. Mary's, Ohio (1818)
- 1832
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “The band of Wyandots residing at tbe lUg Spring, in tlie county of Crawford in the state of Ohio, cede to the 1'. S. tbe reser-”
In the record
Set aside in 1818 for the Wyandot band at Big Spring as 16,000 acres, then ceded to the United States in January 1832. The area covers about 23 thousand acres in what is now Ohio.
The 1899 record names Wyandot as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The Oklahoma State treaty text records a signed supplementary agreement adding reservations and annuities, with no mention of coercion.
Today, Wyandotte 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
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
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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 2
- Wyandotas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Wyandotte Nationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1818-09-17primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1818-09-17primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1832-01-19primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1832-01-19primary 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
- 171
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1818-09-17; 1832-01-19
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Wyandot (band residing at Big Spring)
- States
- OH
- Counties
- Seneca; Wyandot
- 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.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium