Land area
Land of the Eastern Shawnee in Oklahoma, ceded 1874 (area 571)
- 1874
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Cede a tract in NE corner of their reserve for occupancy of Modocs”
- 1875
Earlier terms confirmed
The 1899 record: “Act confirming sale by Eastern Shawnees of N. E. part of their reserve to Modocs, by agreement June 23, 1874”
In the record
Ceded by the Eastern Shawnee in a June 1874 agreement, 4,000 acres in the northeast corner of their reserve for the Modoc, confirmed by an 1875 act. The area covers about 25 thousand acres in what is now Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Shawnee as the people of this land.
Today, Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and Shawnee Tribe 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:
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
- Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Shawneeas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1874-06-23primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1875-03-03primary 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
- 571
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1874-06-23; 1875-03-03
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Eastern Shawnee
- States
- OK
- Counties
- Ottawa
- 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.
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