Land area
Land of the Apache (Jicarilla) in New Mexico, ceded 1884 (area 624)
- 1880
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President sets apart a reserve for them, as follows: Beginning at the SW. corner of the Mexican "Tierra Amarilla grant"”
- 1884
Taken back by the United States
The 1899 record: “President restores to public domain reserve set apart by Executive order of Sept. 21, 1880”
In the record
Set apart as a reserve for the Jicarilla Apache in 1880, then returned to the public domain in 1884. The area covers about 294 thousand acres in what is now New Mexico.
The 1899 record names Apache as the people of this land.
Today, Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Fort Sill Apache Tribe, Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, Mescalero Apache Tribe, San Carlos Apache Tribe and 3 more 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:
- Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
- Fort Sill Apache Tribe
- Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas
- Mescalero Apache Tribe
- San Carlos Apache Tribe
- Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona
- White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona
- Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Nation government Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument Give on their site Website
- Taos Pueblo Nation government Blue Lake return, 48,000 acres, Dec 15, 1970 (Pub. L. 91-550) Website
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund) Native-led Legal advocacy 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 2
- Apacheas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexicomatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1880-09-21primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1884-05-15primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: New Mexico 2 (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
- 624
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1880-09-21; 1884-05-15
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Apache (Jicarilla)
- States
- NM
- Counties
- Rio Arriba
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- New Mexico 2
- 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