White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona — lands ceded, 1864–1886

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1864–1886, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 574,407 km² in 4 cessions across New Mexico, Texas.

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: Apache · Apache (Southern) · Apache (eastern bands) · Apache (western bands)

Cessions

Royce no.	Date	As the schedule names the parties	Sources
448	January 15, 1864	Apache · with 6 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
531	November 9, 1871; November 24, 1874	Apache (Southern) · with 6 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
688	October 1, 1886	Apache (eastern bands) · with 4 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
689	October 1, 1886	Apache (western bands) · with 2 other present-day nations	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:

Chiricahua Apache · area 138, taken 1872–1886
Chiricahua Apache · area 139, taken 1874–1886
Jicarilla Apache · area 134, taken 1865–1886
Kiowa · Comanche & Apache · area 133, taken 1865–1886
Mescalero Apache · area 135, taken 1865–1886
Mescalero Apache · area 136, taken 1865–1886
Tonto Apache · area 141, taken 1871–1886
Western Apache · area 140, taken 1871–1886

Trails across these lands

Comanche War Trail · 625 km within them
Zuni–Hopi–Mojave trade route · 183 km within them
Gila River trail · 3 km within them
364 km of unnamed trails in the network

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.