Cession Polygons (Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database)

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Title:: Cession Polygons (Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database)
Description:: This shapefile contains 162 unique polygons representing Indigenous land cessions that overlap with one or more of the parcels distributed through the Morrill Act (or acts in lieu thereof). It can be joined to the Cessions.csv using the field named Royce_Num. This data was created for the Land Grab Universities project. https://www.landgrabu.org
Creator:: Lee, Robert (Historian)
Publisher:: High Country News
Resource Class:: Datasets
Resource Type:: Polygon data and Vector data
Subject:: Indigenous people, American Indians, Land grants, and Colonization
Theme:: Boundaries
Date Issued:: 2020
Place:: United States
License:: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Access Rights:: Public
Format:: Shapefile
Language:: English
Date Added:: 2021-12-17