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Delaware Nation, Oklahoma

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1795–1854, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 161,329 km² in 37 cessions across Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio.

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: Delaware · Potawatomi · Wyandot · Chippewa · Ottawa · Shawnee · Miami · Wea

Royce 316, 1854Royce 317, 1854Royce 425, 1854Royce 488, 1854Royce 263, 1842Royce 430, 1836Royce 150a, 1829Royce 87, 1817Royce 88, 1817Royce 150, 1817Royce 71, 1809Royce 72, 1809Royce 73, 1809Royce 89, 1807Royce 90, 1807Royce 91, 1807Royce 53, 1805Royce 54, 1805Royce 56, 1805Royce 49, 1804Royce 11, 1795Royce 12, 1795Royce 13, 1795Royce 14, 1795Royce 15, 1795Royce 16, 1795Royce 17, 1795Royce 18, 1795Royce 19, 1795Royce 20, 1795Royce 21, 1795Royce 22, 1795Royce 23, 1795Royce 24, 1795Royce 25, 1795Royce 26, 1795Royce 27, 1795
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
11August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
12August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
13August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
14August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
15August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
16August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
17August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
18August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
19August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
20August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
21August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
22August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
23August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
24August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
25August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
26August 3, 1795; June 7, 1803 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
27August 3, 1795 Chippewa; Delaware; Eel River; Kaskaskia; Kickapoo; Miami; Ottawa; Piankishaw; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 38 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
49August 18, 1804; August 27, 1804; August 21, 1805 Delaware; Miami; Piankishaw · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
53July 4, 1805 Chippewa; Delaware; Munsee; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 34 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
54July 4, 1805 Chippewa; Delaware; Munsee; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 34 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
56August 21, 1805 Delaware; Eel River; Miami; Potawatomi; Wea · with 9 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
89November 17, 1807; September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
90March 3, 1807; September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
91March 3, 1807; September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
71September 30, 1809; October 26, 1809; June 4, 1816 Delaware; Eel River Miami; Kickapoo; Miami; Potawatomi; Wea · with 11 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
72September 30, 1809 Delaware; Eel River Miami; Miami; Potawatomi · with 8 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
73September 30, 1809; December 9, 1809; June 4, 1816 Delaware; Eel River Miami; Kickapoo; Miami; Potawatomi; Wea · with 11 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
87September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
88September 29, 1817 Chippewa; Delaware; Ottawa; Potawatomi; Seneka; Shawnee; Wyandot · with 36 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
150September 29, 1817; August 3, 1829 Delaware (band on Sandusky river) Royce’s schedule · treaty text
150aSeptember 24, 1829; October 26, 1832 Delaware [supplemental to treaty of Oct. 3, 1818] Royce’s schedule · treaty text
430September 17, 1836; May 17, 1854; March 6, 1861 Delaware Royce’s schedule · treaty text
263March 17, 1842; December 14, 1843; April 1, 1850; January 31, 1855 Delaware; Wyandot · with Wyandotte Nation, Oklahoma Royce’s schedule · treaty text
316May 6, 1854 Delaware Royce’s schedule · treaty text
317May 6, 1854; June 8, 1858 Delaware Royce’s schedule · treaty text
425May 6, 1854; May 30, 1860; July 2, 1861 Delaware Royce’s schedule · treaty text
488May 6, 1854; May 30, 1860; July 4, 1866 Delaware 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:

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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.