Land area
Land of the Kaskaskia, Peoria and others in Kansas, recorded 1832 (area 327)
In the record
The area covers about 96 thousand acres in what is now Kansas.
The 1899 record names Kaskaskia and Wea as the people of this land.
The record ties this land to 3 agreements: Kaskaskia and Peoria (including Michigamea, Cahokia, and Tamaroa) at Castor Hill, Missouri (1832), Piankashaw and Wea at Castor Hill, Missouri (1832) and Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea at Washington, DC (1854). Which one ceded it has not been checked yet, so the map dates it by the first.
How it was taken: a removal treaty. The OSU treaty text arranges a move west of Missouri in exchange for ceded claims and annuities, and records the Peoria dispute over the 1818 treaty.
Today, Peoria Tribe of Indians of 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
Native legal and land defense, nationally
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- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners 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
- Kaskaskiaas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Miami Tribe of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Weaas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 3
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1832-10-27primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1832-10-27primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1832-10-29primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1832-10-29primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1854-05-30primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1854-05-30primary 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
- 327
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1832-10-27; 1832-10-29; 1854-05-30
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Kaskaskia; Peoria; Piankishaw; Wea
- States
- KS
- Counties
- Miami
- 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
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