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Fort Sill Apache Tribe

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Official name
Fort Sill—Chiricahua—Warm Springs—Apache Tribe (previously listed as Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma)
Recorded status
Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)
Region
Oklahoma

In the record

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Fort Sill Apache Tribe: Chiricahua Apache: the 1872 reservation abolished (1876) and 27 years as prisoners of war (1886-1912/14).

This nation carries the history of Apache and Chiricahua Apache in the treaty record.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Act of CongressExecutive orderShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

178018001850190019502000todayTreatiesJerome Agreement (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache), 1892 / Act of 1900 (1892)Treaty with the Apache (Santa Fe), 1852 (1852)Treaty of Fort Atkinson with the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, 1853 (1853)Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho at Little Arkansas River, Kansas (1865) (1865)Treaty of Medicine Lodge (Kiowa, Comanche and Apache), 1867 (1867)Land takenLand of the Apache (Southern) in New Mexico, ceded 1874 (area 531) (1874)Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1872 (area 541) (1872)Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1873 (area 546) (1873)Land of the Apache (Jicarilla bands) in New Mexico, ceded 1876 (area 563) (1876)Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1874 (area 573) (1874)Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1875 (area 582) (1875)Land of the Southern Apache in New Mexico, ceded 1877 (area 587) (1877)Land of the Southern Apache in New Mexico, ceded 1875 (area 588) (1875)Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1876 (area 592) (1876)Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1876 (area 600) (1876)Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1877 (area 601) (1877)Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1877 (area 602) (1877)Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1877 (area 603) (1877)Land of the Apache (Jicarilla) in New Mexico, ceded 1884 (area 624) (1884)Land of the Apache (Mescalero) in New Mexico, ceded 1883 (area 643) (1883)Land of the Apache (eastern bands) in New Mexico and Texas, recorded 1886 (area 688) (1886)Land of the Apache (western bands) in New Mexico, recorded 1886 (area 689) (1886)Land of the White Mountain Apache in Arizona, taken 1893 (area 720) (1893)Promises brokenChiricahua Apache: the 1872 reservation abolished (1876) and 27 years as prisoners of war (1886-1912/14) (1876)Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel): 2014 land exchange, Apache Stronghold litigation and the March 2026 transfer (2014)In courtApache Stronghold v. United States (Oak Flat; Chi'chil Bildagoteel) (2024)Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)Lopez v. United States (Oak Flat application) (2026)Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe (1982)Navajo Nation v. U.S. Forest Service (2008)Oak Flat land-exchange litigation, Ninth Circuit (2026) (2026)United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation (2011)White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker (1980)

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

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Other names in English

Land recorded as ceded

This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:

Apache About 144 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894
  • Act of Congress132 million
  • Executive order11 million

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

22 cessions. Follow Apache through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

Native legal and land defense, nationally

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Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 3, matched by the Forest Service, under review

Carries the treaty history of 2

Named in 1

Sources

  1. fortsillapache-nsn.gov/history-and-traditional-culture/history/reference work
    Today’s tribal members are survivors and descendants of the Chiricahua Apache tribe
  2. federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2026/01/30/2026-01899.htmlprimary record
    Fort Sill—Chiricahua—Warm Springs—Apache Tribe (previously listed as Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma)
  3. Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
    Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).
  4. fortsillapache-nsn.gov/reference work
    The Fort Sill Apache Tribe is comprised of the descendants of the Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apaches
Research notes

Name as printed in V042.

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