Land area
Reservation of the Comanche and Kiowa in Colorado, Kansas and Texas (area 478)
- 1865
Set aside as a reservation
By Kiowa and Comanche at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865)
In the record
Set apart as a reservation for the Comanche and Kiowa by the October 1865 treaty; not a cession. Part of the rest was returned to the public domain by an 1875 act. The area covers about 126 million acres in what is now Colorado, Kansas and Texas.
The 1899 record names Comanche and Kiowa as the people of this land.
This area was not ceded. The 1899 record shows it as a reservation the nation kept, at least until the record ends in 1894.
Today, Comanche Nation, Oklahoma and Kiowa Tribe 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
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
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- Right Relationship Boulder (Land Group) Native-led Funds tribal youth camps and gatherings, plant-gathering access, trail content with tribes, pushes for tribal… 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
- Comancheas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Comanche Nation, Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Kiowaas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Kiowa Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 3
Agreements recorded for this land 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1865-10-18primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1865-10-18primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Kansas 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Colorado 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Texas (portion of) (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
- 478
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1865-10-18
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Comanche; Kiowa
- States
- CO; KS; TX
- Counties
- Archer; Atascosa; Baca; Bandera; Baylor; Bent; Bexar; Blanco; Borden; Bosque; Brown; Burnet; Callahan; Clark; Clay; Coke; Coleman; Comanche; Concho; Coryell; Costilla; Crane; Crockett; Dimmit; Duval; Eastland; Ector; Edwards; Erath; Fisher; Ford; Frio; Gillespie; Glasscock; Grant; Gray; Hamilton; Haskell; Hood; Howard; Irion; Jack; Johnson; Jones; Kearny; Kendall; Kent; Kerr; Kimble; King; Kinney; Knox; La Salle; Lampasas; Las Animas; Live Oak; Llano; Loving; Martin; Mason; Maverick; McCulloch; McMullen; Meade; Medina; Menard; Midland; Mills; Mitchell; Morton; Nolan; Otero; Palo Pinto; Parker; Prowers; Reagan; Real; Runnels; San Saba; Schleicher; Scurry; Seward; Shackelford; Somervell; Stanton; Stephens; Sterling; Stevens; Stonewall; Sutton; Taylor; Throckmorton; Tom Green; Upton; Uvalde; Val Verde; Ward; Webb; Winkler; Young; Zapata; Zavala
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Kansas 1; Colorado 1; Texas (portion of)
- 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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