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Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1785–1866, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 183,085 km² in 29 cessions across Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Cherokee · Cherokee nation west of Mississippi river

Royce 491, 1866Royce 203, 1835Royce 490, 1835Royce 489, 1833Royce 143, 1827Royce 144, 1827Royce 101, 1819Royce 102, 1819Royce 103, 1819Royce 104, 1819Royce 106, 1819Royce 83, 1817Royce 84, 1817Royce 76, 1816Royce 79, 1816Royce 64, 1806Royce 85, 1806Royce 86, 1806Royce 57, 1805Royce 58, 1805Royce 59, 1805Royce 105, 1805Royce 107, 1805Royce 108, 1805Royce 109, 1805Royce 52, 1804Royce 42, 1798Royce 8, 1791Royce 3, 1785
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
3November 28, 1785 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
8July 2, 1791 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
42October 2, 1798 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
52October 24, 1804 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
57October 25, 1805 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
58October 27, 1805 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
59October 27, 1805 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
105October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
107October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
108October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
109October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
64January 7, 1806; September 11, 1807 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
85January 7, 1806; July 8, 1817 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
86January 7, 1806; July 8, 1817 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
76March 22, 1816 Cherokee Royce’s schedule · treaty text
79September 14, 1816 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
83July 8, 1817 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
84July 8, 1817 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
101February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
102February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
103February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
104February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
106February 27, 1819 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
143May 6, 1827 Cherokee nation west of Mississippi river · with United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma Royce’s schedule · treaty text
144May 6, 1827 Cherokee nation west of Mississippi river · with United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma Royce’s schedule · treaty text
489February 14, 1833; July 19, 1866; March 3, 1893 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
203December 29, 1835 Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
490December 29, 1835; July 19, 1866; April 27, 1868 Cherokee · with United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma Royce’s schedule · treaty text
491July 19, 1866; February 28, 1877 Cherokee · with United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma Royce’s schedule · treaty text

Lands proven before the Indian Claims Commission

Areas on the Commission’s 1978 map that this nation, or nations it is part of, proved they held when the United States took them:

Trails across these lands

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.