Wilson ~ Indian Land Problems / Land Planning Report
TABLE VI. — Basic Indian land statistics, 1934 — *North Dakota
| Agency or jurisdiction and reservation | Date established | Original area of reservation | Land acquisition since establishment | Total acres acquired since establishment | Reductions other than allotted and alienated land | Dates of major allotments | Total number of allotments made | Acreage of allotments | Land alienated by sales patent in fee, certificates of competency, etc. | Living allotments | Deceased allotments | Tribal | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Acreage of ceded lands | (1a) Remunerations, if any | (2) Acreage of surplus opened to settlement | (3) Miscellaneous losses of land | Total of (1), (2), and (3) | Number | Acres Agricultural | Acres Irrigable | Acres Grazing | Total Acres | Number | Acres Agricultural | Acres Irrigable | Acres Grazing | Total Acres | Acres Agricultural | Acres Irrigable | Acres Grazing | Total Acres | Reserve for agencey, school, etc. | ||||||||||||
| Acres Agricultural | Acres Irrigable | Acres Grazing | Total Acres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand total | 2,037,477 | 2,037,477 | 264,795 | 417,050 | 681,845 | 7,034 | 1,325,302 | 348,209 50 | 4,026 | 162,818 | 571,603 | 734,421 | 1,207 | 40,692 | 202,030 | 242,722 | 1,679 | 22,890 | 24,569 | 1,728 | 4,033 | 5,761 | |||||||||
| Fort Berthold (A. and R.) | Apr. 12, 1870 | 623,589 | 623,589 | 0 | 1910-15 | 3,406 | 605,875 | 37,370 | 3,016 | 136,689 | 424,487 | 561,176 | 39 | 2,239 | 5,090 | 7,329 | 1,659 | 14,932 | 16,591 | 478 | 645 | 1,123 | |||||||||
| Fort Totten (A.): Devils Lake (R.) | Feb. 19, 1867 | 220,834 | 220,834 | 87,160 | 2,330 | 89,490 | 1892 | 1,205 | 129,504 | 78,883 | 146 | 8,148 | 6,542 | 14,690 | 471 | 14,514 | 21,467 | 35,981 | 20 | 60 | 80 | 760 | 1,000 | 1,760 | |||||||
| Sisseton (A. and R.) | Feb. 19, 1867 | 18,018 | 18,018 | 0 | 1887, 1891 | 223 | 18,018 | 13,658 | 17 | 1,422 | 122 | 1,544 | 22 | 2,633 | 183 | 2,816 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Standing Rock (A. and R.) | Feb. 2, 1889 | 716,336 | 716,336 | 177,635 | 177,635 | 1905-15 | 1,874 | 528,085 | 201,550 | 595 | 12,694 | 117,245 | 129,939 | 675 | 21,306 | 175,290 | 196,596 | 7,898 | 7,898 | 480 | 2,238 | 2,718 | |||||||||
| Turtle Mountain (A. and R.) | Dec. 21, 1882 | 458,700 | 458,700 | 27 414,720 | 414,720 | 1904 | 326 | 43,820 | 16,748 | 9 252 | 3,865 | 23,207 | 9 27,072 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 150 | 160 | |||||||||||||
Note: Calculated totals shown. Difference from printed document in red.
State:
- 1 Does not include Leupp.
- 2 Executive order, Nov. 22, 1915, to correct error in original survey of reservation.
- 3 Sale of townsite, Dec. 12, 1908.
- 4 Coolidge Reservoir.
- 5 13,610 acres added by Trust Patent 239,049 in Dec. 14, 1911. 80 acres added by secretarial withdrawal, Feb. 2, 1907.
- 6 Act of Feb. 28, 1919, Capitan Grande Dam site.
- 7 Sale F D 1,068,069, Feb. 14, 1934.
- 8 Act of Congress, 32 Stat. 257.
- 9 Report does not distinguish between living and deceased allotments. Figure represents total trust lands.
- 9a Reports received since this table was compiled indicate that these figures should be 149 for Panca and 7 for Tonkawa.
- 10 51,337 acres of this worthless.
- 11 750 acres of this worthless.
- 12 19,052 acres of this worthless.
- 13 Right of occupancy only, title remains with Bishop of Monterey.
- 14 Area specified in Executive order, June 28, 1912.
- 15 All other Seminole lands, areas purchased under acts of 1894-1910 and Monroe Reservation.
- 16 Given allotments on public domain.
- 17 Unexplained difference between present land holdings and original area.
- 18 Purchased through court action by Iowa State Highway Commission for right-of-way for U.S. Highway No. 30.
- 19 1,331 acres of this worthless.
- 20 Desert land.
- 21 125,547 acres of this worthless.
- 22 May 7, 1868, 30,530,765 acres; Apr. 11, 1882, 1,559,000 acres; Mar. 3, 1891, 1,208,960 acres; Apr. 27, 1904, 1,082,000 acres.
- 23 5,650 acres July 10, 1882, unidentified reduction. 701 acres Mar. 3, 1887, Custer Battlefield; 1,578 acres Feb. 12, 1889; Mar. 1, 1893, unidentified reduction; 7,650 acres railroad purposes; 550 acres Custer County; 44,805 acres State school lands; 60,733 acres total miscellaneous reductions.
- 24 Bought by U.S. Reclamation Service, June 28, 1915, for the sum of $23,858.75.
- 25 Does not include Southern Navajo.
- 26 Executive order, Jan. 16, 1911.
- 27 Restored to public domain, Executive order, Mar. 24, 1884.
- 28 Reserved for military and mission purposes.
- 29 Oklahoma school lands.
- 30 Sale of school and agency land.
- 31 Sold to Modocs, June 23, 1874.
- 32 Sold, agreement of Dec. 2, 1901, ratified by act, May 27, 1902.
- 33 588 acres sold for townsites of Miami, Okla., act of Mar. 2, 1891; 1,412 acres sold act of Mar. 3, 1909.
- 34 40 acres reserved and later patented to Catholic mission; 400 acres of school reserve sold under agreement of May 2, 1899, ratified by act of Mar. 3, 1901.
- 35 10,041 acres sold under agreement of Dec. 2, 1901; 104 acres of school and agency land sold.
- 36 Sold under act of Mar. 3, 1909.
- 37 26,111 acres Apr. 28, 1904 (33 Stat. L. 567), 440 acres sale of school farm Apr. 28, 1904.
- 38 448,000 acres by Executive order, Dec. 21, 1865; 177,563 acres by agreement, July 13, 1892.
- 39 Cemetery.
- 40 Reserved for churches and cemetery.
- 41 43,520 acres purchased for State school lands; 12,634 acres church lands.
- 42 Does not include Allen Canyon.
- 43 Act of June 4, 1898.
- 44 Act of Mar. 22, 1906, 34 Stat. 80, and Executive order of Sept. 15, 1916.
- 45 5,586 acres for homesteads May 22, 1909; 294 acres for townsite land 2528, Jan. 18, 1907.
- 46 26 acres for churches Office Letter Land 61035, Aug. 5, 1907; 100 acres for Wilson grant, Nov. 3, 1906.
- 47 Including 7,024 acres of water rights.
- 48 City blocks and tracts.
- 49 Timber land.
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