Land area
Land of the Christian Indians in Ohio, ceded 1823 (area 6)
- 1788
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “Congress set apart a tract of 4,000 acres at Salem on Muskin- gum river for Christian Indians”
- 1823
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “with which to purchase and extinguish the Indian title to three tracts of land, containing 4,00(1 acres each, lying on Jluskingnm river”
In the record
Set apart by Congress in 1788 as a 4,000-acre tract at Salem on the Muskingum River for the Christian Indians; an 1823 act paid to buy out their title, which they gave up in November 1823. The area covers about 0 thousand acres in what is now Ohio.
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
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
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Connections
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Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1788-09-03primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1823-03-03primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Ohio (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
- 6
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1788-09-03; 1823-03-03
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Christian Indians
- States
- OH
- Counties
- Tuscarawas
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Ohio
- 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