State
Arkansas
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 8 cessions that lie at least partly in Arkansas, from 1808 to 1835, under 7 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Osage, Quapaw, Choctaw, Cherokee and Caddo.
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Who is doing the work
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
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Connections
Contains 8
- Land of the Great and Little Osage in Arkansas and Missouri, ceded 1808 (area 67)1808
- Land of the Great and Little Osage in Arkansas and Oklahoma, ceded 1818 (area 97)1818
- Land of the Quapaw in Arkansas, ceded 1824 (area 121)1818
- Land of the Quapaw in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, ceded 1818 (area 94)1818
- Land of the Choctaw in Arkansas, ceded 1825 (area 122)1820
- Land of the Great and Little Osage in several states, ceded 1825 (area 123)1825
- Land of the Cherokee nation west of Mississippi river in Arkansas, ceded 1828 (area 143)1827
- Land of the Caddo in Arkansas and Louisiana, ceded 1835 (area 202)1835
Sources
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