Land area
Land of the Uintah Uta in Utah, ceded 1888 (area 431)
- 1861
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President sets apart Uintah valley, Utah, for various bands of Utes in Utah, so as to include the entire valley of Uintah river within Utah territory”
- 1887
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “The President sets apart as the Uintah military reservation the following lands: Beginning at a point 2 miles due N. of the flagstaff of Fort Du Chesne”
- 1888
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Congress restores part of the Uintah valley reservation to the public domain, as follows: Beginning at a milepost numbered 19, Du Bois' survey”
In the record
Set apart for Ute bands as the Uintah Valley reserve in 1861; part was taken for a military reservation in 1887, and part returned to the public domain by an 1888 act. The area covers about 2.3 million acres in what is now Utah.
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
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Nation government Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument Give on their site Website
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB) Native-led Protecting ancestral Native American lands in the Bears Ears region 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
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1861-10-03primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1887-09-01primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Utah 1 (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
- 431
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1861-10-03; 1887-09-01; 1888-05-24
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Uintah Uta
- States
- UT
- Counties
- Duchesne; Uintah; Utah; Wasatch
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Utah 1
- 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