Land area
Land of the Great and Little Osage in Arkansas and Oklahoma, ceded 1818 (area 97)
- 1818
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Ceded by the Great and Little Osage in 1818, land between the Arkansas and Verdigris rivers and the Osage line, in Arkansas and Oklahoma. The area covers about 2.0 million acres in what is now Arkansas and Oklahoma.
The 1899 record names Osage as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The treaty text ties the cession to claims for property taken by Osage war parties and annuity deductions; Kansapedia describes intrusions into Osage lands, but neither source uses coercive language beyond that debt-like arrangement.
Today, The Osage 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
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
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
- Osageas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- The Osage Nationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 2
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- Osage at St. Louis (1818)1818suggested
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1818-09-25primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1818-09-25primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Arkansas 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Indian Territory 1 (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
- 97
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1818-09-25
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Great and Little Osage
- States
- AR; OK
- Counties
- Adair; Benton; Crawford; Muskogee; Sequoyah; Wagoner; Washington
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Arkansas 1; Indian Territory 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