State
Utah
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 14 cessions that lie at least partly in Utah, from 1861 to 1892, under 5 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Shoshone (Shoshoni), Navajo (Diné) and Bannock.
The atlas records 5 broken treaty promises here, including Western Shoshone: Treaty of Ruby Valley (1863) and the ICC payment the Nation refuses, Bears Ears National Monument (2016-2026): designation, reductions, restoration and the July 2026 action (context, not a treaty claim) 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: Ute Indian Tribe and Utah trust land disputes.
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
- Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB) Native-led Protecting ancestral Native American lands in the Bears Ears region 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 20
- Land of the Uintah Uta in Colorado, Nevada and Utah, recorded 1861 (area 432)1861
- Land of the Uintah Uta in Utah, ceded 1888 (area 431)1861
- Box Elder (Fort Bridger) 1863: no recognized title, no compensation (Northwestern Shoshone)1863suggested
- Reservation of the Shoshone-Goship in Nevada and Utah (area 447)1863
- Reservation of the Shoshoni (Western bands) in several states (area 444)1863
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 449)1864
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 450)1864
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 451)1864
- Land of the Uta in Utah, ceded 1878 (area 452)1864
- Land of the Bannock and Shoshoni in several states, ceded 1868 (area 520)1868
- Land of the Navaho in New Mexico and Utah, ceded 1868 (area 519)1868
- Land of the Uta (Tabeguache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuchi, Yampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands) in Colorado and Utah, ceded 1868 (area 515)1868
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- Ute: the 1868 Colorado reservation, Brunot (1873), the 1880 Act, 1881 removal, and Hagen v. Utah (1994)1873suggested
- Land of the Paiute in California, Nevada and Utah, recorded 1874 (area 558)1874
- Reservation of the Uta (Uncompahgre) in Utah (area 630)1882
- Land of the Navaho in Utah, ceded 1892 (area 655)1884
- Western Shoshone: Treaty of Ruby Valley (1863) and the ICC payment the Nation refuses1951suggested
- Bears Ears National Monument (2016-2026): designation, reductions, restoration and the July 2026 action (context, not a treaty claim)2017suggested
- Navajo water: the 1868 treaty reserves water but creates no duty to secure it (Arizona v. Navajo Nation, 2023)2023suggested
- Ute Indian Tribe and Utah trust land disputessuggested
Organizations working here 6
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalitionsuggested
- Bears Ears Partnership (formerly Friends of Cedar Mesa)suggested
- Colorado Plateau Foundationsuggested
- Grand Canyon Trust (allied)suggested
- Great Basin Water Networksuggested
- 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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