Land area
Land of the Uta in Colorado, ceded 1873 (area 566)
- 1868
Set aside as a reservation
- 1872
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “Secretary of the Interior authorized to negotiate with Utes for cession of the S. part of their reservation by treaty of Mar. 2, 1868”
- 1873
Ceded to the United States
- 1874
Earlier terms confirmed
The 1899 record: “Ratifies agreement with Uta of Sept. 13, 1873, for cession of a portion of their reserve by treaty Mar. 2, 1868”
- 1876
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “President declares a tract in Uncompahgre valley to be a portion of Ute reservation, in accordance with agreement ratified Apr. 29, 1874”
In the record
Set apart as part of the Uta reservation by the 1868 treaty, then ceded in a September 1873 agreement ratified in April 1874; a 4-mile-square tract in the Uncompahgre Valley was kept in 1876. The area covers about 3.7 million acres in what is now Colorado.
How it was taken: an act of Congress. The Oklahoma State database prints the Act of April 29, 1874 (18 Stat. 36) that ratifies and confirms Brunot's agreement and sets out its text.
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:
Working with these nations
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Nation government Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument Give on their site Website
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- 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 4, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Mexicosuggested
- Southern Ute Indian Tribesuggested
- Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservationsuggested
- Ute Mountain Ute Tribesuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 2
- Treaty with the Ute (Kit Carson Treaty), 18681868suggested
- Brunot Agreement with the Ute, 1873-741873suggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1868-03-02primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1868-03-02primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1872-04-23primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1873-09-13primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1876-08-17primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Colorado 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
- 566
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1868-03-02; 1872-04-23; 1873-09-13; 1874-04-29; 1876-08-17
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Uta
- States
- CO
- Counties
- Archuleta; Dolores; Hinsdale; La Plata; Mineral; Montezuma; Ouray; San Juan; San Miguel
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Colorado 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.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium