Land area
Land of the Wyandot in Michigan, ceded 1818 (area 95)
- 1809
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “reserve for tbe Wyaiidots, two tracts, not exceeding 5,000 acres, at lirownstown and ilaguagua, Michigan terri- tory, provided that if”
- 1818
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Set aside for the Wyandot at Brownstown by an act of February 1809, then ceded to the United States by the Wyandot in September 1818. The area covers about 0 thousand acres in what is now Michigan.
The 1899 record names Wyandot as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The Oklahoma State treaty text records a signed exchange of two Michigan tracts for a smaller reserved tract, with no mention of coercion.
Today, Wyandotte 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
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) Nation government Ojibwe treaty rights in ceded territories, natural resource stewardship, manoomin, and a Land Conservancy program… 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 2
- Wyandotas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Wyandotte Nationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Wyandot at St. Mary's, Ohio (1818)1818suggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1809-02-28primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1818-09-20primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1818-09-20primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Michigan 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
- 95
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1809-02-28; 1818-09-20
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Wyandot
- States
- MI
- Counties
- Wayne
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Michigan 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