First, choose a map (below), then find the number on the map of the area that interests you, then match that number in the Treaty List below. Each map has mulitple numbers that correspond with the numbers in the list below. There are no maps in this series for Maryland, Kentucky, South Carolina, or Virginia. One Chickasaw cession includes part of Kentucky and is shown on a Tennessee map.
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      The maps are from the original book Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Compiled by Charles C. Royce. It was published in The 18th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology -- 1896-’97, Vol II, Smithsonian Institution, printed by the Government Printing Office, 1899. The cession (treaty) text is from Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Vol. II (Treaties), Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, Washington : Government Printing Office, 1904. Both books are from the collection of Fred Smoot.
      Neither of the books contain pre-federal treaty cessions, such as Henderson’s Purchase (Transylvania Land Company). For a history of pre-federal treaties, see our Colonial Period Indian Land Cessions In Tennessee page.
      Also included in our list of treaties are selected historical documents that pertain to the treaties and are placed in chronological order along with those treaties.

      NOTE: The cession numbers found on the Royce maps are matched to text entries also found in his book. This gives us the date, place, nation, etc., of the cession. The cession information is then matched to a treaty from Kappler’s book. Additional southern area treaties (generally not involving land cessions) which are not found on the Royce maps, are included in chronological order (below) and are linked as such: (***).