Land area
Land of the Chickasaw in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, ceded 1816 (area 80)
- 1816
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Ceded by the Chickasaw in 1816, land north of the Tennessee River and a strip south of it, in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. The area covers about 5.4 million acres in what is now Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The 1899 record names Chickasaw as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The Oklahoma State treaty text records a signed agreement with annuities and reservations; it does not mention coercion.
Today, The Chickasaw Nation carries 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:
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.
Located in 3
Nations named for this land 1, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Chickasawsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Chickasaw at Chickasaw Council House (1816)1816suggested
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1816-09-20primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1816-09-20primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Alabama (northern portion) (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Mississippi (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Tennessee and Alabama (portions of) (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
- 80
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1816-09-20
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Chickasaw
- States
- AL; MS; TN
- Counties
- Colbert; Cullman; Fayette; Franklin; Giles; Hardin; Hickman; Humphreys; Lamar; Lauderdale; Lawrence; Lewis; Limestone; Lowndes; Madison; Marion; Maury; Monroe; Morgan; Perry; Walker; Wayne; Winston
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Alabama (northern portion); Mississippi; Tennessee and Alabama (portions of)
- 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