Chapter 1 - § 1.6 • INDIAN LANDS

• Jurisdiction: Colorado

§ 1.6 • INDIAN LANDS

In 1868, the United States set aside almost 16 million acres as an Indian reservation for the Confederated Band of Utes.²⁶⁶ Under the Act of June 15, 1880,²⁶⁷ the Southern Ute Indian Tribe ceded their portion of the reservation to the United States in exchange for payments and allotments of land along the La Plata River to individual tribe members. The United States in turn sold the ceded reservation land for cash, set portions aside for public purposes, or disposed of it as free homesteads under various public land and homestead acts.²⁶⁸ In 1882, that portion of the reservation occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River Utes was declared to be public land of the United States, and subject to disposal in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Act of June 15, 1880.²⁶⁹

At least one patent has been issued in Colorado pursuant to the so-called "Chippewa Half-Breed Scrip."²⁷⁰ And, at least one patent has been issued in Colorado under the treaty concluded October 14, 1865²⁷¹ between the United States and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Indians.²⁷²

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Notes:

^[266] See United States v. Hess, 194 F.3d 1164 (10th Cir. 1999).

^[267] Ch. 223, 21 Stat. 199.

^[268] See United States v. Hess, 194 F.3d 1164 (10th Cir. 1999).

^[269] Act of July 28, 1882, ch. 357, 22 Stat. 178. Section 3 of the Act recognized pre-existing claims.

^[270] See generally Fee v. Brown, 30 P. 340 (Colo. 1892).

^[271] Ch. 223, 21 Stat. 199.

^[272] See Reynolds v. Campling, 46 P. 639 (Colo. 1896).