State
Arizona
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 31 cessions that lie at least partly in Arizona, from 1872 to 1893, under 1 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Apache and Hualapai (Walapai).
The atlas records 4 broken treaty promises here, including Chiricahua Apache: the 1872 reservation abolished (1876) and 27 years as prisoners of war (1886-1912/14), Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel): 2014 land exchange, Apache Stronghold litigation and the March 2026 transfer and Navajo water: the 1868 treaty reserves water but creates no duty to secure it (Arizona v. Navajo Nation, 2023).
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Everything here is linked at state level only. The atlas does not look up addresses or parcels, and a cession touching a state does not tell you whose land a particular place is.
Who is doing the work
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Nation government Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument Give on their site Website
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- The Hopi Foundation Native-led Hopi community self-determination, capacity building, leadership programs and Hopi radio Give on their site Website
- Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute Native-led Hopi land stewardship, food sovereignty and regional food hub Give on their site Website
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.
Contains 35
- Reservation of the Maricopa and Pima in Arizona (area 415)1859
- Navajo: the Long Walk and Bosque Redondo (1864-1868), ended by the 1868 treaty1864suggested
- Reservation of the Colorado River in Arizona (area 466)1865
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1872 (area 541)1871
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1874 (area 573)1871
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1875 (area 582)1871
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1877 (area 603)1871
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, ceded 1876 (area 600)1872
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1873 (area 546)1873
- Reservation of the Colorado River in Arizona (area 554)1873
- Reservation of the Papago in Arizona (area 572)1874
- Chiricahua Apache: the 1872 reservation abolished (1876) and 27 years as prisoners of war (1886-1912/14)1876suggested
Show all 35
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1876 (area 592)1876
- Reservation of the Maricopa and Pima in Arizona (area 596)1876
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1877 (area 601)1877
- Land of the Apache in Arizona, taken 1877 (area 602)1877
- Reservation of the Navabo in Arizona (area 608)1878
- Reservation of the Maricopa and Pima in Arizona (area 611)1879
- Reservation of the Maricopa and Pima in Arizona (area 612)1879
- Reservation of the Havasupai in Arizona (area 633)1882
- Reservation of the Maricopa and Pima in Arizona (area 634)1882
- Reservation of the Moki and others in Arizona (area 640)1882
- Reservation of the Papago and others in Arizona (area 639)1882
- Land of the Yuma in Arizona, ceded 1884 (area 648)1883
- Reservation of the Maricopa and Pima in Arizona (area 651)1883
- Reservation of the Walapai in Arizona (area 641)1883
- Land of the Cocopa in Arizona, recorded 1886 (area 686)1886
- Land of the Maricopa, Papago and others in Arizona, recorded 1886 (area 687)1886
- Land of the Mohave in Arizona, recorded 1886 (area 684)1886
- Land of the Moki in Arizona, recorded 1886 (area 682)1886
- Land of the Walapai in Arizona, recorded 1886 (area 683)1886
- Land of the Yuma in Arizona, recorded 1886 (area 685)1886
- Land of the White Mountain Apache in Arizona, taken 1893 (area 720)1893
- Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel): 2014 land exchange, Apache Stronghold litigation and the March 2026 transfer2014suggested
- Navajo water: the 1868 treaty reserves water but creates no duty to secure it (Arizona v. Navajo Nation, 2023)2023suggested
Organizations working here 10
- Apache Strongholdsuggested
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalitionsuggested
- Colorado Plateau Foundationsuggested
- Diné CARE (Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment)suggested
- Grand Canyon Trust (allied)suggested
- Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institutesuggested
- Native Seeds/SEARCHsuggested
- The Hopi Foundationsuggested
- Tonatierra Community Development Institutesuggested
- Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB)suggested
Sources
No source is linked to this record yet. That is a gap we are working to close.
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