Land area
Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 452)
- 1864
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “Provides for vacation and sale of certain Indian reserves, viz: Spanish Fork reserve, Corn Creek reserve, San Pete reserve, Deep Creek reserve”
- 1878
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Repeals portion of act of May 5, 1864, and directs restoration to the public domain the several tracts above described in Nos. 449 to 452”
In the record
One of four Utah reserves for the Uta set up between 1856 and 1859 (probably the Deep Creek reserve); an 1864 act provided for vacating and selling them, and an 1878 act returned them to the public domain. The area covers about 23 thousand 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
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Working with these nations
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Nation government Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument Give on their site Website
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- 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
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, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Mexicosuggested
- Southern Ute Indian Tribesuggested
- Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservationsuggested
- Ute Mountain Ute Tribesuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1864-05-05primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1878-06-18primary 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
- 452
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1864-05-05; 1878-06-18
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Uta
- States
- UT
- Counties
- Tooele
- 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
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