Land area
Land of the Creek and Seminole in Oklahoma, ceded 1873 (area 543)
- 1873
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Secretary of Interior authorized to negotiate for cession of a jiortiou of the Creek country as follows”
In the record
Bought by the United States from the Creek for the Seminole under an 1873 act, 175,000 acres east of the earlier Creek-Seminole line. The area covers about 0 thousand acres in what is now Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole as the people of this land.
Today, Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Kialegee Tribal Town, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and 1 more 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:
- Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town
- Kialegee Tribal Town
- Muscogee (Creek) Nation
- Poarch Band of Creek Indians
- Thlopthlocco Tribal Town
- Florida Tribes (Moultrie Creek)
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 4
- Muscogee (Creek)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Seminoleas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Seminole Nation of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Seminole Tribe of Floridamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 543
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1873-03-03
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Creek; Seminole
- States
- OK
- Counties
- Seminole
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Indian Territory 3
- Geometry
- No shape in the Forest Service layer
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium
- Notes
- No shape in the source