State
Oklahoma
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 39 cessions that lie at least partly in Oklahoma, from 1818 to 1893, under 14 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Quapaw, Shawnee, Kaskaskia, Ottawa, Wea and 21 more.
The atlas records 9 broken treaty promises here, including Curtis Act (1898) and Oklahoma statehood (1907): Five Tribes governments dismantled and lands allotted, McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020): the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was never disestablished and Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (2022): concurrent state jurisdiction over non-Indians in Indian country. Land has come back here: Fort Reno return campaign (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes).
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Who is doing the work
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Nation government Seeking return of about 6,700 acres at Fort Reno
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 49
- Land of the Great and Little Osage in Arkansas and Oklahoma, ceded 1818 (area 97)1818
- Land of the Quapaw in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, ceded 1818 (area 94)1818
- Kaw (Kanza): annuities delayed, sale and removal from Kansas (1873), and Kaw Lake1825suggested
- Land of the Great and Little Osage in several states, ceded 1825 (area 123)1825
- Reservation of the Cherokee nation west of Mississippi river in Oklahoma (area 144)1827
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 498)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 500)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 501)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 504)1832
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, recorded 1832 (area 499)1832
- Land of the Cherokee in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 489)1833
- Land of the Creek and Seminole in Oklahoma, recorded 1833 (area 404)1833
Show all 49
- Land of the Creek in Oklahoma, recorded 1833 (area 486)1833
- Land of the Creek in Oklahoma, recorded 1833 (area 487)1833
- Reservation of the Cherokee in Oklahoma (area 492)1833
- Reservation of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma (area 505)1833
- Land of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, ceded 1866 (area 485)1855
- Land of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, recorded 1855 (area 367)1855
- Land of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, recorded 1855 (area 368)1855
- Land of the Seminole in Oklahoma, ceded 1866 (area 480)1856
- Fort Wise (1861), Sand Creek (1864) and the Little Arkansas reparations (1865)1864suggested
- Land of the Comanche and Kiowa in Oklahoma and Texas, ceded 1867 (area 511)1865
- Reservation of the Seminole in Oklahoma (area 481)1866
- Land of the Certain Wyandot, Kaskaskia and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 502)1867
- Land of the Comanche and Kiowa in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 510)1867
- Land of the Potawatomi in Oklahoma, ceded 1891 (area 506)1867
- Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi in Oklahoma, ceded 1891 (area 495)1867
- Land of the Arapaho and Cheyenne in Oklahoma, ceded 1891 (area 525)1869
- Land of the Great and Little Osage in Oklahoma, recorded 1870 (area 534)1870
- Land of the Kickapoo in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 650)1870
- Seminole Nation v. United States (1942): annuities paid to corrupt officials despite treaty duties1870suggested
- Reservation of the Kansa in Oklahoma (area 535)1872
- Reservation of the Wichita in Oklahoma (area 540a)1872
- Land of the Creek and Seminole in Oklahoma, ceded 1873 (area 543)1873
- Land of the Eastern Shawnee in Oklahoma, ceded 1874 (area 571)1874
- Chiricahua Apache: the 1872 reservation abolished (1876) and 27 years as prisoners of war (1886-1912/14)1876suggested
- Land of the Pawnee in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 591)1876
- Land of the Nez Percé (Joseph's band) in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 606)1878
- Land of the Ponka in Oklahoma, recorded 1878 (area 628)1878
- Reservation of the Missouri and Oto in Oklahoma (area 627)1881
- Fort Reno: military reserve carved from the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation (1883-2026)1883suggested
- Reservation of the Iowa in Oklahoma (area 649)1883
- Reservation of the Indians educated at Chilocco Indian Industrial School in Oklahoma (area 657)1884
- Land of the Creek or Muscogee in Oklahoma, ceded 1889 (area 698)1889
- Medicine Lodge (1867) and Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903): allotment without the promised three-fourths consent1892suggested
- Curtis Act (1898) and Oklahoma statehood (1907): Five Tribes governments dismantled and lands allotted1898suggested
- McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020): the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was never disestablished1898suggested
- Fort Reno return campaign (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes)1948suggested
- Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (2022): concurrent state jurisdiction over non-Indians in Indian country2022suggested
Organizations working here 2
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribessuggested
- Pawnee Nation of Oklahomasuggested
Sources
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