Nation
Walpapi (Woll-pah-pe) band of Snake · woll-pah-pe · Hunipuitöka · Snake · Walpapi · HunipuitokaWalpapi (Woll-pah-pe) band of Snake
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- Region
- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Walpapi (Woll-pah-pe) band of Snake as a party: Snake (Woll-pah-pe) at Sprague River Valley, Oregon (1865).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 1 cession of land from Walpapi (Woll-pah-pe) band of Snake in 1865: about 420 thousand acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. It came through removal treaties.
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
Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.
Self-names
- HunipuitökaNorthern Paiute (as printed)
Land recorded as ceded
- Removal treaty420 thousand
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
1 cession. Follow Walpapi (Woll-pah-pe) band of Snake through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
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- 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
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Party to 1
Land recorded in this nation’s name 1, as named in the 1899 record
Sources
- oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/treaty-with-the-snake-northern-paiuteunclassified
negotiated the agreement with the Hunipuitöka, a Northern Paiute group that originally inhabited portions of central Oregon
Research notes
Label as printed in NARA (TLA-T-337); not the same record as nat-yahooskin-snake.
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