Land area
Land of the Iowa in Kansas, ceded 1854 (area 323)
- 1836
Set aside as a reservation
By Iowa and Sauk and Fox of the Missouri (West of Missouri) at Fort Leavenworth (1836)
- 1854
Ceded to the United States
- 1854
Partly ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Cede tract assigned them by treaty of Sept. 17, 1836”
- 1861
Named in the record
By Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and Iowa at Great Nemaha Agency, Nebraska Territory (1861)
In the record
Assigned in 1836 to the Iowa and the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri; the Iowa ceded their share in 1854, and the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri ceded theirs the next day. The area covers about 94 thousand acres in what is now Kansas.
The 1899 record names Iowa as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The OSU treaty text records a cession for the proceeds of land sales; the cited sources do not describe coercion.
Today, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa Tribe of 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
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 3
- Iowaas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraskamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Iowa Tribe of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 3
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1836-09-17primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1836-09-17primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1854-05-17primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1854-05-17primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1854-05-18primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1861-03-06primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1861-03-06primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Kansas 2 (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
- 323
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1836-09-17; 1854-05-17; 1854-05-18; 1861-03-06
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Iowa
- States
- KS
- Counties
- Brown; Doniphan
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Kansas 2
- 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