Land area
Land of the Kansas in Kansas, ceded 1846 (area 264)
- 1846
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Ceded by the Kansas in 1846, 2,000,000 acres from the eastern part of their country. The area covers about 5.2 million acres in what is now Kansas.
The 1899 record names Kaw (Kanza) as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty made under documented pressure. The Kaw Nation's own history describes undelivered annuities and land speculators coveting the land; the treaty text itself records a negotiated cession with a payment.
Today, Kaw 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
- Kaw (Kanza)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Kaw Nationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Kansa at Methodist Mission, Kansas Country (1846)1846suggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1846-01-14primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1846-01-14primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Kansas 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
- 264
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1846-01-14
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Kansas
- States
- KS
- Counties
- Clay; Cloud; Dickinson; Ellis; Geary; Gove; Graham; Jackson; Lincoln; Logan; Mitchell; Osborne; Ottawa; Pottawattamie; Riley; Rooks; Russell; Shawnee; Sheridan; Thomas; Trego; Wabaunsee
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Kansas 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