Land area
Land of the Arapaho and Cheyenne in Oklahoma, ceded 1891 (area 525)
- 1869
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President establishes a reservation for them on N. fork of Canadian river, in lieu of one designated by treaty of Oct. 28, 1867”
- 1891
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Also cede to the U. S., subject to allotment, the following lands: Commencing at a point where the Washita river crosses the ninety-eighth degree of W. longitude”
In the record
Set apart for the Cheyenne and Arapaho on the North Fork of the Canadian River by executive order in 1869, then ceded, subject to allotments, in an agreement Congress confirmed in March 1891. The area covers about 4.4 million acres in what is now Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Arapaho and Cheyenne as the people of this land.
Today, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming and Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana 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:
- Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana
Working with these nations
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
- 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 3
- Arapahoas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Cheyenneas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribesmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 525
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1869-08-10; 1891-03-03
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Arapaho; Cheyenne
- States
- OK
- Counties
- Beckham; Blaine; Caddo; Canadian; Custer; Dewey; Ellis; Kingfisher; Roger Mills; Washita
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Indian Territory 3
- 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