Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1868–1884, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 95,019 km² in 4 cessions across New Mexico, Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 519 | June 1, 1868 | Navaho | Royce’s schedule · treaty text |
| 615 | January 6, 1880 | Navaho | Royce’s schedule |
| 655 | May 17, 1884; November 19, 1892 | Navaho | Royce’s schedule |
| 658 | May 17, 1884; April 24, 1886 | Navaho | 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:
Trails across these lands
- Zuni–Hopi–Mojave trade route ·
- 90 km of unnamed trails in the network
Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands
- The Navajo Country, 1916
- Ives’s Colorado River and the Hopi mesas, 1858
- Grand Canyon, Paria to Diamond Creek, 1874
- Northern Arizona and southern Utah, 1873 (Wheeler)
- Gallatin's tribes of North America, 1836
- New Mexico, 1851 (Parke and Kern)
- Territory of New Mexico, 1867
- Texas and New Mexico, 1857
- Warren's map of the West, 1857
- Whipple’s 35th-parallel survey, 1853–54
- Simpson’s wagon routes across the Great Basin, 1859