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Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1833–1876, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 92,351 km² in 5 cessions across Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota.

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: Pawnee (four confederated bands) · Pawnee · Confederated Pawnee: Grand Pawnee, Pawnee Loup, Pawnee Republicans, Pawnee Tappaye residing on the Platt and Loup Fork

Royce 591, 1876Royce 408, 1857Royce 590, 1857Royce 270, 1848Royce 191, 1833
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
191October 9, 1833 Confederated Pawnee: Grand Pawnee, Pawnee Loup, Pawnee Republicans, Pawnee Tappaye residing on the Platt and Loup Fork Royce’s schedule · treaty text
270August 6, 1848 Pawnee (four confederated bands) Royce’s schedule · treaty text
408September 24, 1857 Pawnee (four confederated bands) Royce’s schedule · treaty text
590September 24, 1857; April 10, 1876 Pawnee Royce’s schedule · treaty text
591April 10, 1876; March 3, 1893 Pawnee 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.