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Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1818–1867, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 148,585 km² in 10 cessions across Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma.

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: Quapaw · Kaskaskia · Mixed Seneka · Peoria · Piankishaw · Seneka · Shawnee · Wea

Royce 502, 1867Royce 503, 1833Royce 505, 1833Royce 498, 1832Royce 499, 1832Royce 500, 1832Royce 501, 1832Royce 504, 1832Royce 94, 1818Royce 121, 1818
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
94August 24, 1818 Quapaw Royce’s schedule · treaty text
121August 24, 1818; November 15, 1824 Quapaw Royce’s schedule · treaty text
498December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
499December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; March 2, 1889 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
500December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
501December 29, 1832; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
504December 29, 1832; May 13, 1833; February 23, 1867; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
503May 13, 1833; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 9 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
505May 13, 1833; February 23, 1867 Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanehard's fork and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea; Wyandot · with 10 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
502February 23, 1867 Certain Wyandot; Kaskaskia; Mixed Seneka; Ottawa of Blanchard's for and Roche de Boeuf; Peoria; Piankishaw; Quapaw; Seneka; Shawnee; Wea · with 2 other present-day nations 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:

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.