Land area
Land of the Sauk and Fox in Iowa, ceded 1837 (area 244)
- 1837
Ceded to the United States
By Sauk and Fox (Confederated Tribes) at Washington, DC (1837)
In the record
Ceded by the Sauk and Fox in 1837, 1,250,000 acres in Iowa west of their 1832 cession. The area covers about 1.3 million acres in what is now Iowa.
The 1899 record names Meskwaki (Fox) and Sauk (Sac) as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The OSU treaty text records a cession by the confederated tribes, through chiefs and delegates, for payments and a removal term; no coercion is stated.
Today, Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska and Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma 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
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
- 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.
Nations named for this land 5
- Meskwaki (Fox)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- 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
- Sauk (Sac)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 2
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1837-10-21primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1837-10-21primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Iowa 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
- 244
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1837-10-21
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Sauk and Fox
- States
- IA
- Counties
- Benton; Buchanan; Davis; Fayette; Iowa; Jefferson; Johnson; Keokuk; Linn; Van Buren; Washington
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Iowa 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.
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