Land area
Land of the Great and Little Osage in Oklahoma, recorded 1870 (area 534)
- 1870
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “Congress makes provision for a reserve for Osages in Indian Territory whenever they consent to remove from Kansas”
- 1871
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “Secretary of the Interior designates a reserve for the Osages in Indian Territory”
- 1872
Earlier terms confirmed
The 1899 record: “Confirm amended reserve selected for Osages in Indian Territory as follows: "Bounded on the E. by the ninety-sixth meridian”
In the record
Provided for by Congress in 1870 as an Osage reservation in Indian Territory, chosen in 1871, and its boundaries confirmed by an 1872 act; no cession is recorded. The area covers about 1.5 million acres in what is now Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Osage as the people of this land.
Today, The Osage Nation carries 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 2
- Osageas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- The Osage Nationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1870-07-15primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1871-03-27primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Indian Territory 3 (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
- 534
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1870-07-15; 1871-03-27; 1872-06-05
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Great and Little Osage
- States
- OK
- Counties
- Osage
- 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