State
Colorado
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 11 cessions that lie at least partly in Colorado, from 1861 to 1882, under 6 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Bannock and 1 more.
The atlas records 3 broken treaty promises here, including Fort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory, Fort Wise (1861), Sand Creek (1864) and the Little Arkansas reparations (1865) and Ute: the 1868 Colorado reservation, Brunot (1873), the 1880 Act, 1881 removal, and Hagen v. Utah (1994). Land has come back here: Right Relationship Boulder Land Group.
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
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- Right Relationship Boulder (Land Group) Native-led Funds tribal youth camps and gatherings, plant-gathering access, trail content with tribes, pushes for tribal… 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 15
- Land of the Arapaho and Cheyenne in Colorado, ceded 1865 (area 477)1851
- Land of the Arapaho of Upper Arkansas and Cheyenne of Upper Arkansas in several states, ceded 1861 (area 426)1851
- Fort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory1858suggested
- Land of the Uintah Uta in Colorado, Nevada and Utah, recorded 1861 (area 432)1861
- Fort Wise (1861), Sand Creek (1864) and the Little Arkansas reparations (1865)1864suggested
- Reservation of the Comanche and Kiowa in Colorado, Kansas and Texas (area 478)1865
- Land of the Bannock and Shoshoni in several states, ceded 1868 (area 520)1868
- Land of the Uta (Tabeguache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuchi, Yampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands) in Colorado and Utah, ceded 1868 (area 515)1868
- Land of the Uta in Colorado, ceded 1873 (area 566)1868
- Land of the Uta in Colorado, recorded 1868 (area 616)1868
- Land of the Uta in Colorado, recorded 1868 (area 617)1868
- Ute: the 1868 Colorado reservation, Brunot (1873), the 1880 Act, 1881 removal, and Hagen v. Utah (1994)1873suggested
Organizations working here 6
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalitionsuggested
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribessuggested
- Colorado Plateau Foundationsuggested
- First Nations Development Institutesuggested
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF)suggested
- Right Relationship Boulder (Land Group)suggested
Sources
No source is linked to this record yet. That is a gap we are working to close.
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