State
Wyoming
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 8 cessions that lie at least partly in Wyoming, from 1851 to 1876, under 5 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Shoshone (Shoshoni), Arapaho, Chippewa (Ojibwe), Cheyenne, Crow (Apsáalooke) and 6 more.
The atlas records 3 broken treaty promises here, including Fort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory, Fort Laramie 1868 and the Black Hills: abrogation by the Act of Feb. 28, 1877 and Crow Tribe and Herrera v. Wyoming (2019): treaty hunting right survives statehood.
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Who is doing the work
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
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Connections
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Contains 11
- Land of the Arapaho of Upper Arkansas and Cheyenne of Upper Arkansas in several states, ceded 1861 (area 426)1851
- Land of the Arikara, Gros Ventre and others in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming, ceded 1870 (area 529)1851
- Land of the Blackfoot and Chippewa, Ontonagon band in Montana and Wyoming, recorded 1851 (area 398)1851
- Land of the Crow in Montana and Wyoming, ceded 1868 (area 517)1851
- Fort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory1858suggested
- Land of the Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne and others in several states, ceded 1876 (area 597)1868
- Land of the Bannock and Shoshoni in several states, ceded 1868 (area 520)1868
- Land of the Shoshoni in Wyoming, ceded 1872 (area 539)1868
- Land of the Shoshoni in Wyoming, recorded 1868 (area 540)1868
- Fort Laramie 1868 and the Black Hills: abrogation by the Act of Feb. 28, 18771874suggested
- Crow Tribe and Herrera v. Wyoming (2019): treaty hunting right survives statehood2014suggested
Sources
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