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Makah · makah · qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌ · Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation · qwidiccaʔa·txMakah
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- Region
- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Makah as a party: Treaty of Neah Bay (Makah), 1855.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 3 cessions of land from Makah: about 100 thousand acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Makah in Washington, ceded 1855 (area 355), about 102 thousand acres, ceded under Treaty of Neah Bay (Makah), 1855.
One court case turned on its rights: United States v. Washington (Boldt decision).
The records group it with Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington. Today, Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
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.
The record over time
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.
Names
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Self-names
- qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌Makah (Qʷiqʷidiččaq)
Official names
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement100 thousand
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
3 cessions. Follow Makah through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation
- Duwamish Tribe
- Snohomish Tribe of Indians
- Steilacoom Tribe
- Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington
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
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 3, as named in the 1899 record
Part of 1
Party to 1
Named in 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- makah.com/makah-tribal-info/unclassified
the Makah People, the qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌ lived in a world that revolved around the sea and land
- federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/30/2026-01899.txtprimary record
Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation
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