Land area
Land of the Pawnee in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 591)
- 1876
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “Provides a new reservation for them in Indian territory, which new reservation is described as follows”
- 1893
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Confirms agreement made with these Indians Nov. 23, 1892, by which they cede to the U. S. all their title and interest in the following lands”
In the record
Provided to the Pawnee as a new reservation in Indian Territory by an 1876 act, then ceded in a November 1892 agreement that Congress confirmed in March 1893. The area covers about 296 thousand acres in what is now Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Pawnee as the people of this land.
Today, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma 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
- Pawneeas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Pawnee Nation of Oklahomamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1876-04-10primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1893-03-03primary 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
- 591
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1876-04-10; 1893-03-03
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Pawnee
- States
- OK
- Counties
- Noble; Payne
- 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