Land area
Land of the Ca-la-na-po, Cha-nel-kai and others in California, ceded 1851 (area 296)
- 1851
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Land outside the Clear Lake reserve that the Ca-la-na-po, Ha-bi-na-po and other bands were to give up under an August 1851 treaty that was never ratified. The area covers about 2.2 million acres in what is now California.
How it was taken: a treaty the Senate never ratified. The OSU treaty page marks it Unratified, and Prologue says the Senate rejected all 18 California treaties.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Round Valley Indian Tribes
- Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Coyote Valley Band of Pomo
- Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, California
- Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria, California
- Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, California
- Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, California
- Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria, California
Working with these nations
- InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council Nation government Land conservation and return of coastal Sinkyone lands to tribal stewardship (nearly 5,000 acres protected) Give on their site Website
- Kai Poma Native-led Receive and steward Blues Beach (136 acres), first state-owned land transfer of its kind in California per ActiveNorCal
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Koy'o Land Conservancy (Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe) Nation government Restoring traditional homelands to tribal members Website
- Kumeyaay Diegueno Land Conservancy (KDLC) Nation government Acquiring and preserving sacred and culturally sensitive lands in Kumeyaay aboriginal territory Give on their site Website
- Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria Nation government 450 acres (2026), first ancestral land return in the Big Chico Creek watershed
- Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Nation government About 900 acres returned Dec 2025
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
Links marked “suggested” were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Nations named for this land 4, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians of the Big Valley Rancheria, Californiasuggested
- Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of Californiasuggested
- Pomosuggested
- Robinson Rancheriasuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
Located in 1
Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 296
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1851-08-20
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Ca-la-na-po; Cha-nel-kai; Che-com; Da-no-ha-bo; Ha-bi-na-po; How-ku-ma; Me-dam-a-rec; Mo-al-kai
- States
- CA
- Counties
- Lake; Napa; Solano; Yolo
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- California 1
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
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