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Executive Order—Returning Tulerosa Indian Land to Public Domain

November 24, 1874

Executive Mansion, November 24, 1874. 

All orders establishing and setting apart the Tulerosa Valley, in New Mexico—described as follows: Beginning at the headwaters of the Tulerosa River and its tributaries in the mountains, and extending down the same 10 miles on each side for a distance of 30 miles—as an Indian reservation, are hereby revoked and annulled; and the said described tract of country is hereby restored to the public domain. 

U. S. Grant.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 879

Ulysses S. Grant, Executive Order—Returning Tulerosa Indian Land to Public Domain Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371825

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