Land area
Land of the Comanche and Kiowa in Oklahoma and Texas, ceded 1867 (area 511)
- 1865
Set aside as a reservation
By Kiowa and Comanche at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865)
- 1867
Partly ceded to the United States
In the record
Set apart for the Comanche and Kiowa by the 1865 treaty, then cut back to a smaller reservation by the 1867 Medicine Lodge treaty, which gave up the rest. The area covers about 43 million acres in what is now Oklahoma and Texas.
The 1899 record names Comanche and Kiowa as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The treaty text records a peace and reservation agreement signed by chiefs and headmen; the Oklahoma Historical Society places it amid conflict on the plains, but the text states no coercion.
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
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
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
Agreements recorded for this land 3
Located in 2
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, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1867-10-21primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1867-10-21primary 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
- 511
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1865-10-18; 1867-10-21
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Comanche; Kiowa
- States
- OK; TX
- Counties
- Armstrong; Bailey; Beaver; Beckham; Blaine; Briscoe; Caddo; Canadian; Carson; Castro; Childress; Cochran; Collingsworth; Comanche; Cottle; Cotton; Crosby; Custer; Dallam; Dawson; Deaf Smith; Dewey; Dickens; Donley; Ellis; Floyd; Foard; Gaines; Garza; Grady; Gray; Greer; Hale; Hall; Hansford; Hardeman; Harmon; Harper; Hartley; Hemphill; Hockley; Hutchinson; Jackson; Jefferson; Kingfisher; Kiowa; Lamb; Lipscomb; Lubbock; Lynn; Major; Moore; Motley; Ochiltree; Oldham; Parmer; Potter; Randall; Roberts; Roger Mills; Sherman; Stephens; Swisher; Terry; Tillman; Washita; Wheeler; Woodward; Yoakum
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- 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
- Medium