Land area
Reservation of the Uta (Uncompahgre) in Utah (area 630)
- 1882
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President sets a reserve for their occupancy, described as follows: Beginning at the SE. coiner of T. 6 S., R. 25 E., Salt Lake meridian”
In the record
Set apart in Utah as a reserve for the Uncompahgre Uta by executive order in January 1882; it formed their reserve in the 1899 federal record. Not a cession. The area covers about 1.7 million acres in what is now Utah.
This area was not ceded. The 1899 record shows it as a reservation the nation kept, at least until the record ends in 1894.
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:
Working with these nations
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Nation government Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument Give on their site Website
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB) Native-led Protecting ancestral Native American lands in the Bears Ears region 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 4, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Mexicosuggested
- Southern Ute Indian Tribesuggested
- Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservationsuggested
- Ute Mountain Ute Tribesuggested
Located in 1
Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 630
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1882-01-05
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Uta (Uncompahgre)
- States
- UT
- Counties
- Carbon; Duchesne; Uintah
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Utah 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