Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina — lands ceded, 1785–1875

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1785–1875, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 160,582 km² in 25 cessions across Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, 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].

Cessions

Royce no.	Date	As the schedule names the parties	Sources
3	November 28, 1785	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
8	July 2, 1791	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
42	October 2, 1798	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
52	October 24, 1804	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
57	October 25, 1805	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
58	October 27, 1805	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
59	October 27, 1805	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
105	October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
107	October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
108	October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
109	October 25, 1805; February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
64	January 7, 1806; September 11, 1807	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
85	January 7, 1806; July 8, 1817	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
86	January 7, 1806; July 8, 1817	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
79	September 14, 1816	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
83	July 8, 1817	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
84	July 8, 1817	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
101	February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
102	February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
103	February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
104	February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
106	February 27, 1819	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
489	February 14, 1833; July 19, 1866; March 3, 1893	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
203	December 29, 1835	Cherokee · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
580	March 3, 1875	Cherokee, Eastern band	Royce’s schedule

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:

Cherokee · area 37, taken 1785–1835

Trails across these lands

Great Indian Warpath · 317 km within them
Natchez Trace · 136 km within them
Warriors' Path and Scioto Trail · 18 km within them
3,052 km of unnamed trails in the network

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.