Regions Ceded To, Ceded By or Purchased From Native American Tribes
- Black Hawk Purchase; $640,000; purchased 1832; Michigan Territory (eventually Iowa)
- Cherokee Outlet; $7,000,000; purchased 1893; Oklahoma Territory (eventually Oklahoma)
- Cherokee Strip (a disputed 2 mile wide tract of land between the Cherokee Nation and Kansas); ceded 1866; to Kansas
- The Indian Territory; ceded by the U.S. to Native Americans; 1834
- Jackson Purchase; $300,000; purchased 1818; from the Chickasaw Nation to Tennessee and Kentucky
- Platte Purchase; $7,500; purchased 1836; Missouri
- Saginaw Cession; ceded 1819; to Michigan Territory (eventually Michigan)
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