Land area
Land of the Methow and Okanagan in Idaho, Montana and Washington, recorded 1871 (area 532)
- 1871
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “Territory originally claimetl by Metliow, Okanagan, Iwiotenay, I'end d'Oreille, Colville, North Spokane, San Voeil, and other tribes”
In the record
Claimed by the Methow, Okanagan and other tribes and taken by the United States without any treaty; the 1899 federal record lists no cession, only reservations made by executive order. The area covers about 4.9 million acres in what is now Idaho, Montana and Washington.
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
- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Nation government National Bison Range restoration (about 18,800 acres) Website
- Puyallup Tribe of Indians Nation government 1989 Land Claims Settlement (about $162-163M)
- Potlatch Fund Native-led Native philanthropy and grantmaking to Native individuals and Native-led organizations Give on their site Website
- Duwamish Tribal Services (Real Rent Duwamish) Native-led Real Rent Duwamish: Seattle residents pay voluntary 'rent' 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.
Located in 3
Nations named for this land 1, matched by the Forest Service, under review
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1871-01-01primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Montana 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Idaho (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Washington 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
- 532
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1871-01-01
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Methow; Okanagan
- States
- ID; MT; WA
- Counties
- Bonner; Boundary; Kootenai; Lincoln; Mineral; Pend Oreille; Sanders; Shoshone
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Montana 1; Idaho; Washington 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.
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- Land area
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