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Land of the Great and Little Osage, Iowa and others in Missouri, ceded 1808 (area 69)

Shape traced from the 1899 maps; approximate. Open on the map
  1. 1808

    Ceded to the United States

    The 1899 record: “leding to tlie T. .S. all lauds lying E. of said line and N. of the southwardly bank of the river Arkansas”

  2. 1824

    Partly ceded to the United States

    By Sauk and Fox at Washington, DC (1824)

  3. 1824

    Partly ceded to the United States

    By Iowa at Washington, DC (1824)

In the record

Ceded by the Great and Little Osage at Fort Clark in November 1808; in August 1824 the Sauk and Fox and the Iowa each also gave up any claim to this same Missouri land. The area covers about 11 million acres in what is now Missouri.

The 1899 record names Iowa, Meskwaki (Fox), Osage and Sauk (Sac) as the people of this land.

How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The Oklahoma State treaty text records a negotiated cession in Washington with stated payments; no source cited describes coercion in 1824.

Today, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, The Osage Nation, Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska and Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma carry the history of the people named here.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.

See this cession on the map

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:

Native legal and land defense, nationally

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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 5

  • Iowaas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
  • Meskwaki (Fox)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
  • Osageas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
  • Sauk (Sac)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
  • The Osage Nationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested

Agreements recorded for this land 2

Located in 1

Sources

  1. Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1808-11-10primary record
  2. Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1808-11-10primary record
  3. Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1824-08-04primary record
  4. Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1824-08-04primary record
  5. Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1824-08-04primary record
  6. Royce’s map sheet: Missouri 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
  7. 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
69
Dates in the 1899 record
1808-11-10; 1824-08-04; 1824-08-04
Kind of instrument
Treaty or agreement
Peoples as named in the 1899 record
Great and Little Osage; Iowa; Sauk and Fox
States
MO
Counties
Adair; Audrain; Boone; Caldwell; Callaway; Carroll; Chariton; Clark; Clay; Clinton; Daviess; De Kalb; Gentry; Grundy; Howard; Knox; Lewis; Linn; Livingston; Macon; Mercer; Monroe; Montgomery; Putnam; Randolph; Ray; Schuyler; Scotland; Shelby; Sullivan; Worth
Map sheets in the 1899 record
Missouri 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

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