State
New Mexico
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 38 cessions that lie at least partly in New Mexico, from 1865 to 1886, under 2 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Apache, Navajo (Diné), Osage, Santo Domingo Pueblo, Taos Pueblo and 1 more.
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), Taos Pueblo and Blue Lake: taken in 1906, returned in 1970 and Navajo water: the 1868 treaty reserves water but creates no duty to secure it (Arizona v. Navajo Nation, 2023). Land has come back here: Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo.
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
- Taos Pueblo Nation government Blue Lake return, 48,000 acres, Dec 15, 1970 (Pub. L. 91-550) Website
- Colorado Plateau Foundation Native-led Grants to Native-led organizations protecting Colorado Plateau lands, waters and cultures Give on their site Website
- Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund) Native-led Legal advocacy 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 43
- Reservation of the Gila Apache in New Mexico (area 424)1860
- Navajo: the Long Walk and Bosque Redondo (1864-1868), ended by the 1868 treaty1864suggested
- Reservation of the Apache in New Mexico (area 448)1864
- Land of the Osage in Kansas and New Mexico, ceded 1865 (area 476)1865
- Land of the Navaho in New Mexico and Utah, ceded 1868 (area 519)1868
- Reservation of the Navaho in New Mexico (area 518)1868
- Land of the Apache (Southern) in New Mexico, ceded 1874 (area 531)1871
- Land of the Apache (Jicarilla bands) in New Mexico, ceded 1876 (area 563)1873
- Land of the Apache (Mescalero) in New Mexico, ceded 1883 (area 643)1873
- Reservation of the Apache (Mescalero) in New Mexico (area 644)1873
- Land of the Southern Apache in New Mexico, ceded 1875 (area 588)1874
- Land of the Southern Apache in New Mexico, ceded 1877 (area 587)1875
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- Chiricahua Apache: the 1872 reservation abolished (1876) and 27 years as prisoners of war (1886-1912/14)1876suggested
- Reservation of the Zuñi in New Mexico (area 645)1877
- Land of the Apache (Jicarilla) in New Mexico, ceded 1884 (area 624)1880
- Reservation of the Navaho in New Mexico (area 615)1880
- Land of the Navaho in New Mexico, taken 1884 (area 658)1884
- Land grant of the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico (area 663)1886
- Land grant of the Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico (area 668)1886
- Land grant of the Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico (area 677)1886
- Land grant of the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico (area 662)1886
- Land grant of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico (area 679)1886
- Land grant of the Nambe Pueblo in New Mexico (area 678)1886
- Land grant of the Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico (area 667)1886
- Land grant of the Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico (area 665)1886
- Land grant of the Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico (area 674)1886
- Land grant of the San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico (area 666)1886
- Land grant of the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico (area 673)1886
- Land grant of the San Juan Pueblo in New Mexico (area 664)1886
- Land grant of the Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico (area 676)1886
- Land grant of the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico (area 680)1886
- Land grant of the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico (area 671)1886
- Land grant of the Santo Domingo Pueblo in New Mexico (area 669)1886
- Land grant of the Sia Pueblo in New Mexico (area 675)1886
- Land grant of the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico (area 670)1886
- Land grant of the Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico (area 672)1886
- Land grant of the Zuñi in New Mexico (area 681)1886
- Land of the Apache (eastern bands) in New Mexico and Texas, recorded 1886 (area 688)1886
- Land of the Apache (western bands) in New Mexico, recorded 1886 (area 689)1886
- Reservation of the Apache (Jicarilla bands) in New Mexico (area 691)1887
- Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo1906suggested
- Taos Pueblo and Blue Lake: taken in 1906, returned in 19701906suggested
- Navajo water: the 1868 treaty reserves water but creates no duty to secure it (Arizona v. Navajo Nation, 2023)2023suggested
Organizations working here 7
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalitionsuggested
- Colorado Plateau Foundationsuggested
- Grand Canyon Trust (allied)suggested
- Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund)suggested
- Native Seeds/SEARCHsuggested
- Taos Pueblosuggested
- Tewa Women Unitedsuggested
Sources
No source is linked to this record yet. That is a gap we are working to close.
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