Land area
Land of the Bannock, Coeur d'Alene and others in Idaho, ceded 1888 (area 524)
- 1867
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President establishes a reserve known as Fort Hall reserve, on Snake river”
- 1868
Recognized as Native land
By Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868 (Eastern Shoshone and Bannock)
- 1869
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President establishes Fort Hall reserve as the one contemplated by treaty of July 3, 1868”
- 1888
Partly ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Congress ratifies agreement by which said Indians surrender the following lands, all of which are contained in T. 6 S., R. 34 E., of Boise meridian”
- 1889
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “Confirms agreement to cede to U. S. for the use of the Lemhi Indians the following lands”
In the record
Set up as the Fort Hall reserve in Idaho by executive orders of 1867 and 1869 under the 1868 treaty; only 1,840 acres for railroads were given up (1888), and an 1889 Lemhi cession was never carried out. The area covers about 1.2 million acres in what is now Idaho.
The 1899 record names Bannock, Coeur d'Alene Tribe (Schitsu'umsh) and Shoshone (Shoshoni) as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The treaty text records a negotiated reservation treaty signed by chiefs and headmen; the Supreme Court in 1937 describes it as an exchange of reservations, and no source cited describes coercion.
Today, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada (Four constituent bands: Battle Mountain Band; Elko Band; South Fork Band; and Wells Band) 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
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
- Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada (Four constituent bands: Battle Mountain Band; Elko Band; South Fork Band; and Wells Band)
Land return and Native-led work nearby
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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
- Bannockas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Coeur d'Alene Tribe (Schitsu'umsh)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Shoshone (Shoshoni)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1867-06-14primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1868-07-03primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1868-07-03primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1888-09-01primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Idaho (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
- 524
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1867-06-14; 1868-07-03; 1869-07-30; 1888-09-01; 1889-02-23
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Bannock; Coeur d'Alene; Shoshoni
- States
- ID
- Counties
- Bannock; Bingham; Caribou; Power
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Idaho
- 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