Land area
Land of the Nez Percé (Joseph's band) in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 606)
- 1878
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “Provides for their removal from Fort Leavenworth and their location upon a reserve in Indian Territory”
- 1893
Ceded to the United States
The 1899 record: “Confirms agreement made with these Indians Oct. 21, 1891, by which they cede to the U. S. all their title and interest in the following lands”
In the record
Bought from the Cherokee for Joseph's band of Nez Percé under an 1878 act; they deeded it to the United States in 1885, and the Tonkawa ceded it in an agreement confirmed in March 1893. The area covers about 98 thousand acres in what is now Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) as the people of this land.
Today, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Nez Perce 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, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Nez Perce (Nimiipuu)suggested
- Nez Perce Tribesuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1878-05-27primary 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
- 606
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1878-05-27; 1893-03-03
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Nez Percé (Joseph's band)
- States
- OK
- Counties
- Grant
- 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