Land area
Land of the Miami in Kansas, ceded 1854 (area 329)
- 1838
Recognized as Native land
- 1840
Set aside as a reservation
- 1854
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Promised to the Miami in Kansas in 1838 and assigned in 1840, then ceded in the 1854 treaty, except a 70,000-acre reserve. The area covers about 361 thousand acres in what is now Kansas.
The 1899 record names Miami as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The OSU treaty text records a negotiated cession and allotment; the cited sources do not describe coercion.
Today, Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana, Inc. and Miami 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
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
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.
Agreements recorded for this land 3
- Miami at Forks of the Wabash, Indiana (1838)1838suggested
- Miami at Forks of the Wabash, Indiana (1840)1840suggested
- Miami at Washington, DC (1854)1854suggested
Nations named for this land 2
- Miamias named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Miami Tribe of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1838-11-06primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1838-11-06primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1840-11-28primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1840-11-28primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1854-06-05primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1854-06-05primary 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
- 329
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1838-11-06; 1840-11-28; 1854-06-05
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Miami
- States
- KS
- Counties
- Linn; 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
- Medium