Land area
Land of the Piankishaw in Illinois, ceded 1805 (area 63)
- 1805
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Ceded by the Piankishaw in December 1805, the tract in Illinois between the Wabash and the Kaskaskia cession. The area covers about 2.6 million acres in what is now Illinois.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The OSU text records a negotiated cession for an annuity and goods; the sources cited do not describe coercion.
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
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
- Miami Tribe of Oklahomasuggested
- Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahomasuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Piankashaw at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (1805)1805suggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1805-12-30primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1805-12-30primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Illinois 1 (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
- 63
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1805-12-30
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Piankishaw
- States
- IL
- Counties
- Clay; Crawford; Edwards; Effingham; Fayette; Gallatin; Hamilton; Jasper; Lawrence; Marion; Richland; Wabash; Wayne; White
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Illinois 1
- 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