USDA Forest Service Geospatial Service and Technology Center, USDA Forest Service 20180529 010000 vector digital data http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php Sixty-seven maps from "Indian Land Cessions in the United States," compiled by Charles C. Royce and published as the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897 have been scanned, georeferenced in JPEG2000 format, and digitized to create this feature class of cession maps. The mapped cessions and reservations included in the 67 maps correspond to entries in Royce's Schedule of Indian Land Cessions (Schedule), "indicating the number and location of each cession by or reservation for the Indian tribes from the organization of the Federal Government to and including 1894, together with descriptions of the tracts so ceded or reserved, the date of the treaty, law or executive order governing the same, the name of the tribe or tribes affected thereby, and historical data and references bearing thereon," as set forth in the subtitle of the Schedule. For several years, the U.S. Forest Service’s Office of Tribal Relations (OTR) has explored opportunities to improve accuracy and completeness of mapping data of contemporary and historical tribal land areas through conversations with Forest Service Lands and Engineering staff. The data's utility has been demonstrated in numerous instances; for example, in support of improved decision-making surrounding both incident and resource management, meeting Forest Service treaty and trust responsibilities, defining the scope of tribal needs and interests on Forest Service lands, and identification of cooperative opportunities, such as those authorized by the Tribal Forest Protection Act. That much of the land Tribes ceded to the United States through treaties are now National Forest Service lands compels the Forest Service to try and determine the tribal interests that may still exist in those lands today, regardless of whether the Tribes are still physically on the land or were removed. 20180419 20180419 Complete None planned -124.743039 -74.518933 49.009346 24.891108 ISO 19115 Topic Categories boundaries None U.S. Forest Service Treaties Schedule of Indian Land Cessions Royce Kappler None This data is for informational purposes only. The USDA Forest Service makes no warranty, expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, reliability, completeness or utility of these geospatial data, or for the improper or incorrect use of these geospatial data. These geospatial data and related maps or graphics are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The data and maps may not be used to determine title, ownership, legal descriptions or boundaries, legal jurisdiction, or restrictions that may be in place on either public or private land. Natural hazards may or may not be depicted on the data and maps, and users should exercise due caution. The data are dynamic and may change over time. The user is responsible to verify the limitations of the geospatial data and to use the data accordingly. USFS Chief Information Office, Enterprise Data Warehouse data@fs.fed.us USDA Forest Service Office of Tribal Relations Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.5.1.7333 OTR added or edited 89 rows of the data made available to them in January of 2018 by the National NAGPRA Program. The edits are associated with the following Cession Map IDs: 69, 134, 172, 661, and 690. Changes made by the OTR have not been reviewed or approved by the National NAGPRA Program. The Forest Service will continue to collaborate with other federal agencies and work to improve the accuracy and completeness of the data included in this dataset. Errors identified since the dataset was published in 2015 have been corrected, and we request that you notify us of any additional errors we may have missed or that have been introduced. Please contact Rebecca Hill, Policy Analyst, U.S. Forest Service, Office of Tribal Relations, at rebeccahill@fs.fed.us with any questions or concerns with regard to the data included in this dataset. Data is complete as of publication. Each Royce map was georeferenced against one or more of the following USGS 1:2,000,000 National Atlas Feature Classes contained in \NatlAtlas_USGS.gdb: cities_2mm, hydro_ln_2mm, hydro_pl_2mm, plss_2mm, states_2mm. Cessions were digitized as a file geodatabase (GDB) polygon feature class, projected as NAD83 USA_Contiguous_Lambert_Conformal_Conic, which is the same projection used to georeference the maps. The feature class was later reprojected to WGS 1984 Web Mercator (auxiliary sphere) to optimize it for the Tribal Connections Map Viewer. Polygon boundaries were digitized as to not deviate from the drawn polygon edge to the extent that space could be seen between the digitized polygon and the mapped polygon at a viewable scale. Topology was maintained between coincident edges of adjacent polygons. The cession map number assigned by Royce was entered into the feature class as a field attribute. The Map Cession ID serves as the link referencing relationship classes and joining additional attribute information to 752 polygon features, include the following: Data transcribed from Royce's Schedule; Date(s), in the case of treaties, the date the treaty was signed, not the date of the proclamation; Tribe(s), the name(s) used in the treaty and/or the Schedule; Map Name(s), the name of the map(s) on which a cession number appears; URLs for the corresponding entry in the Schedule (Internet Archive) for each unique combination of a Date and reference to a Map Cession ID (historical references in the Schedule are included); URLs for the corresponding treaty text, including the treaties catalogued by Charles J. Kappler in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (HathiTrust Digital Library), executive order, or other federal statute (Library of Congress and University of Georgia) identified in each entry with a reference to a Map Cession ID or IDs; URLs for the image of the Royce map(s) (Library of Congress) on which a given cession number appears; The name(s) of the present-day Indian tribe or tribes related to name(s) as they appeared in the Schedule or the corresponding primary text; and the present-day states and counties included wholly or partially within a Map Cession boundary. 20150601 The 2018 dataset includes changes to four Cession Map IDs: 69, 328, 340, and 539. During the 2017-2018 revision of the attribute data, it was noted that seven of the Cession Map IDs are missing spatial representation in the Feature Class. The missing data is associated with the following Cession Map IDs: 47 (Illinois 1), 65 (Tennessee and Bordering States), 128 (Georgia), 129 (Georgia), 130 (Georgia), 543 (Indian Territory 3), and 690 (Iowa 2).The 2018 dataset includes changes to 15 dates associated with the following Cession Map IDs: 7, 69, 256, 258, 329, 330, 340, 398, 404, 422, 469, 470, 480, 486, and 487. See discussion below. The 2018 dataset includes changes to 39 map names associated with the following Cession Map IDs: 50, 51, 55, 69, 80, 81, 89, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 214, 215, 216, 217, 251, 256, 258, 328, 340, and 426.This dataset revises and expands the dataset published in 2015 by the U.S. Forest Service and made available through the Tribal Connections viewer, the Forest Service Geodata Clearinghouse, and Data.gov. The 2018 dataset is a result of collaboration between the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, Office of Tribal Relations (OTR); the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National NAGPRA Program; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs, American Indian Environmental Office; and Dr. Claudio Saunt of the University of Georgia. The Forest Service and Dr. Saunt independently digitized and georeferenced the Royce maps and developed online map viewers to display Native American land cessions and reservations. Dr. Saunt subsequently undertook additional research to link Schedule entries, treaty texts, federal statutes, and executive orders to cession and reservation polygons, which he agreed to share with the Forest Service. OTR revised the data, linking the Schedule entries, treaty texts, federal statues, and executive orders to all 1,172 entries in the attribute table. As a result, 1,172 entries in the attribute table now include the URL for the corresponding entry in the Schedule. 748 entries in the attribute table now include the URL for the corresponding treaty text catalogued by Charles J. Kappler in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. 140 entries in the attribute table now include the URL for the corresponding federal statute, and 214 entries now include the URL for the corresponding executive order. The 2018 dataset has incorporated data made available by the National NAGPRA Program, specifically the Indian tribe or tribes related to each mapped cession, including the name as it appeared in the Schedule or the corresponding primary text and the name of the present-day Indian tribe or tribes, as well as the present-day states and counties included wholly or partially within a Map Cession boundary. This data replaces in its entirety the National NAGPRA data from the dataset published in 2015, which incorporated data presented in state tables compiled from the Schedule by the National NAGPRA Program. In recent years the National NAGPRA Program has been working to ensure the accuracy of this data, including the reevaluation of the present-day Indian tribes and the provision of references for their determinations. 20180419 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 718 8.98315284119521e-009 8.98315284119521e-009 Decimal Degrees D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 S_USA.TRIBALCEDEDLANDS A collection of geographic features with the same geometry type (such as point, line, or polygon), the same attributes, and the same spatial reference. http://support.esri.com/en/other-resources/gis-dictionary/term/feature%20class OBJECTID Internal feature number. Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. CESSNUM Cession number as identified on the maps. Tetra Tech 1 741 CESSNUMSORT Cession number for sorting purposes. Tetra Tech 1 741 Shape Feature geometry. Esri Coordinates defining the features. SHAPE.AREA Area of feature in internal units squared. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. SHAPE.LEN Length of feature in internal units. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. USFS Chief Information Office, Enterprise Data Warehouse data@fs.fed.us The U.S. Forest Service makes no warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or utility of these geospatial data or for the improper or incorrect use of those data. The data are dynamic and may change over time. The user is responsible for verifying the limitations of the geospatial data and for using the data accordingly. 20180529 USFS Chief Information Office, Enterprise Data Warehouse data@fs.fed.us FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time