State
New York
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 19 cessions that lie at least partly in New York, from 1784 to 1838, under 5 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) and Seven Nations of Canada.
The atlas records 5 broken treaty promises here, including Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1838): sale of Seneca reservations and the 1842 and 1857 corrections, Canandaigua 1794 and the Kinzua Dam (1958-1965) and Tuscarora and the Niagara Power Project (1960). Land has come back here: Oneida Indian Nation reacquisition and trust applications and Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center buys Adirondack land.
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
- Oneida Indian Nation Nation government About 18,000 acres in trust (2022 est.), 25,000-acre cap under 2013 agreement
- Rematriation Native-led Indigenous women-led media, education, community advocacy Give on their site Website
- Shinnecock Kelp Farmers Native-led Indigenous kelp farming and Shinnecock Bay restoration 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 26
- Fort Stanwix 1784: cession by Haudenosaunee delegates who lacked authority1784suggested
- Land of the Six Nations in New York, ceded 1784 (area 2)1784
- Land of the Six Nations in New York, recorded 1794 (area 10)1794
- Land of the Six Nations in New York, recorded 1794 (area 9)1794
- Oneida land (New York): 1795 sale without federal approval1795suggested
- Reservation of the Seven Nations of Canada in New York (area 28)1796
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1802 (area 32)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1802 (area 36)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1802 (area 37)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 38)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 39)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 40)1797
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- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 29)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 30)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 31)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 33)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 34)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 35)1797
- Reservation of the Seneka in New York (area 41)1797
- Land of the Seneka in New York, ceded 1838 (area 45)1802
- Land of the The several tribes of New York Indians in New York, recorded 1838 (area 250)1838
- Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1838): sale of Seneca reservations and the 1842 and 1857 corrections1838suggested
- Canandaigua 1794 and the Kinzua Dam (1958-1965)1958suggested
- Tuscarora and the Niagara Power Project (1960)1958suggested
- Oneida Indian Nation reacquisition and trust applications1970suggested
- Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center buys Adirondack land2022suggested
Organizations working here 4
- Oneida Indian Nationsuggested
- Rematriationsuggested
- Shinnecock Kelp Farmerssuggested
- Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Centersuggested
Sources
No source is linked to this record yet. That is a gap we are working to close.
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- Confidence
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