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Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1851–1880, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 114,233 km² in 9 cessions across Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington.

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: Nez Percé · Nez Percé (Moses' band) · Nez Percè, Blackfoot and Flathead Nations · Nez Percé (Joseph's band)

Royce 618, 1880Royce 642, 1879Royce 659, 1879Royce 606, 1878Royce 545, 1873Royce 366, 1855Royce 441, 1855Royce 442, 1855Royce 399, 1851
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
399September 17, 1851; October 17, 1855 Nez Percè, Blackfoot and Flathead Nations · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
366June 11, 1855 Nez Percé Royce’s schedule · treaty text
441June 11, 1855; June 9, 1863 Nez Percé Royce’s schedule · treaty text
442June 11, 1855; June 9, 1863; August 15, 1894 Nez Percé Royce’s schedule · treaty text
545June 16, 1873; June 10, 1875 Nez Percé Royce’s schedule
606May 27, 1878; March 3, 1893 Nez Percé (Joseph's band) Royce’s schedule
642April 19, 1879; February 23, 1883 Nez Percé (Moses' band) Royce’s schedule
659April 19, 1879; May 1, 1886 Nez Percé (Moses' band) Royce’s schedule
618March 6, 1880; July 7, 1883; July 4, 1884; May 1, 1886 Nez Percé (Moses' 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:

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.