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Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker River Reservation, Nevada

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1864–1875, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 245,601 km² in 9 cessions across California, Nevada, Oregon, 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].

Named in the treaties as: Paiute · Shoshoni · Snake

Royce 577, 1875Royce 589, 1875Royce 558, 1874Royce 560, 1874Royce 561, 1874Royce 562, 1874Royce 576, 1873Royce 537, 1871Royce 460, 1864
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
460April 28, 1864 Paiute · with 19 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
537March 14, 1871; September 12, 1872 Paiute; Shoshoni; Snake · with 28 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
576March 12, 1873; February 12, 1874; March 3, 1875 Paiute · with 19 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
558February 12, 1874 Paiute · with 23 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
560March 19, 1874 Paiute · with 19 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
561March 23, 1874 Paiute · with 19 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
562March 23, 1874 Paiute · with 23 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
577March 3, 1875; July 3, 1875 Paiute · with 19 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
589May 15, 1875; January 28, 1876 Paiute; Shoshoni · with 28 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule

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.