Land area
Reservation of the Zuñi in New Mexico (area 645)
- 1877
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President sets apart reserve for their occupancy, as follows: Beginning at the one hundred and thirty-sixth milestone”
- 1883
Earlier terms confirmed
The 1899 record: “President amends boundaries named in Executive order of Mar. 16, 1877”
In the record
Set apart as the Zuñi reservation by executive order in 1877, with boundaries amended in 1883; not ceded. The area covers about 226 thousand acres in what is now New Mexico.
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
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
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Taos Pueblo Nation government Blue Lake return, 48,000 acres, Dec 15, 1970 (Pub. L. 91-550) Website
- Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund) Native-led Legal advocacy Give on their site Website
- Native Seeds/SEARCH Native-led Seed bank and seed return to Indigenous growers (Rematriation Seed Donations program) Give on their site Website
- Tewa Women United Native-led Native women-led environmental, reproductive and gender justice work in Tewa homelands, including environmental… 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
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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 1, matched by the Forest Service, under review
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1877-03-16primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1883-05-01primary 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
- 645
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1877-03-16; 1883-05-01
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Zuñi
- States
- NM
- Counties
- McKinley
- 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