Land area
Land of the Uta (Tabeguache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuchi, Yampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands) in Colorado and Utah, ceded 1868 (area 515)
- 1868
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Given up by the Uta bands in the March 1868 treaty, which gave up all claim to their land outside the new reservation, in Colorado and Utah. The area covers about 19 million acres in what is now Colorado and Utah.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The treaty text records a negotiated reservation treaty signed in Washington by Ute representatives; no coercion is described in the text.
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:
- Affiliated Ute Citizens of the State of Utah
- Southern Ute Indian Tribe
- Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation
- Ute
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
- 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
- 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 2, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Mexicosuggested
- Ute Mountain Ute Tribesuggested
Located in 2
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Treaty with the Ute (Kit Carson Treaty), 18681868suggested
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1868-03-02primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1868-03-02primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Colorado 1 (Library of Congress)primary 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
- 515
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1868-03-02
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Uta (Tabeguache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuchi, Yampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands)
- States
- CO; UT
- Counties
- Alamosa; Conejos; Costilla; Eagle; Grand; Gunnison; Mineral; Moffat; Pitkin; Rio Grande; Routt; Saguache; San Juan; Summit; Uintah
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Colorado 1; 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