Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma — lands ceded, 1864

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1864, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 58,345 km² in 2 cessions across California, Oregon.

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
462	October 14, 1864	Klamath; Modok; Snake Indians, Yahooskin band · with Klamath Tribes, Oregon	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
463	October 14, 1864	Klamath; Modok; Snake Indians, Yahooskin band · with Klamath Tribes, Oregon	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:

Modoc · area 114, taken 1851–1864

Trails across these lands

Siskiyou Trail · 104 km within them
689 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.