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Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1851–1892, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 81,180 km² in 7 cessions across Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming.

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: Gros Ventre · Mandan · Arikara · Arapaho · Assiniboin · Cheyenne · Crow · Sioux

Royce 716, 1892Royce 712, 1891Royce 713, 1891Royce 300, 1851Royce 529, 1851Royce 620, 1851Royce 621, 1851
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
300September 17, 1851 Arapaho; Arikara; Assiniboin; Cheyenne; Crow; Gros Ventre; Mandan; Sioux · with 21 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
529September 17, 1851; April 12, 1870 Arikara; Gros Ventre; Mandan · with Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana Royce’s schedule · treaty text
620September 17, 1851; April 12, 1870; July 13, 1880 Arikara; Gros Ventre; Mandan · with Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana Royce’s schedule · treaty text
621September 17, 1851; April 12, 1870; July 13, 1880 Arikara; Gros Ventre; Mandan · with Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana Royce’s schedule · treaty text
712March 3, 1891 Gros Ventre; Mandan · with Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana Royce’s schedule
713March 3, 1891 Gros Ventre; Mandan · with Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana Royce’s schedule
716June 17, 1892 Fort Berthold Reservation 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:

No trail in Project Homeland crosses these lands yet. A map that shows one, traced in, would add it.

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.