Land area
Land of the Kickapoo in Kansas, ceded 1854 (area 325)
- 1832
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “The boundaries as changed are as follows ... so as to include in the lands assigned the Kickapoos at least 1,200 square miles”
- 1854
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Assigned to the Kickapoo in Kansas by 1832 treaties; this is the part they ceded in 1854, while keeping a reserve. The area covers about 495 thousand acres in what is now Kansas.
The 1899 record names Kickapoo as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The OSU treaty text records a negotiated cession for payment; the cited sources do not describe coercion.
Today, Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas, Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma and Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas 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 4
- Kickapooas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texasmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansasmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Kickapoo at Washington, DC (1854)1854suggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1832-11-26primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1832-11-26primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1854-05-18primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1854-05-18primary 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
- 325
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1832-11-26; 1854-05-18
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Kickapoo
- States
- KS
- Counties
- Atchison; 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