Land area
Land of the Missouri and Oto in Nebraska, ceded 1854 (area 314)
- 1854
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Ceded by the Oto and Missouri in 1854, all their country west of the Missouri River in Nebraska, except a reserve they kept on the Big Blue River. The area covers about 1.8 million acres in what is now Nebraska.
The 1899 record names Oto as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The OSU treaty text records a negotiated cession for annuities; the Kansas Historical Society page describes persuasion but nothing specific to this treaty.
Today, Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma 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
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 2
- Otoas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Oto and Missouri at Washington, DC (1854)1854suggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1854-03-15primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1854-03-15primary 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
- 314
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1854-03-15
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Missouri; Oto
- States
- NE
- Counties
- Butler; Cass; Nemaha; Otoe; Saunders; Seward
- 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
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