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Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1805–1855, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 171,351 km² in 8 cessions across Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, 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: Chickasaw · Choctaw

Royce 367, 1855Royce 368, 1855Royce 485, 1855Royce 178, 1832Royce 100, 1818Royce 80, 1816Royce 81, 1816Royce 55, 1805
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
55July 23, 1805 Chickasaw Royce’s schedule · treaty text
80September 20, 1816 Chickasaw Royce’s schedule · treaty text
81September 20, 1816; October 19, 1818 Chickasaw Royce’s schedule · treaty text
100October 19, 1818 Chickasaw Royce’s schedule · treaty text
178October 20, 1832 Chickasaw Royce’s schedule · treaty text
367June 22, 1855 Chickasaw; Choctaw · with 3 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
368June 22, 1855 Chickasaw; Choctaw · with 3 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
485June 22, 1855; April 28, 1866 Chickasaw; Choctaw · with 3 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text

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.