Land area
Land of the Hoo-pah or Trinity river, Peh-tuck or Upper Klamath and others in California, ceded 1851 (area 304)
- 1851
Ceded to the United States
In the record
Land outside the Klamath River reserve that the Hoo-pah, Peh-tuck and Poh-lik were to give up under an October 1851 treaty that was never ratified. The area covers about 4.8 million acres in what is now California.
The 1899 record names Klamath as the people of this land.
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.
Today, Klamath Tribes carries the history of the people named here.
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
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- 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
- 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
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 3
- Hoopa Valley Tribe, Californiamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Klamathas named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Klamath Tribesmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
- California Treaty Q: Camp Klamath, 1851 (unratified)1851suggested
Located in 1
Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 304
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1851-10-06
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Hoo-pah or Trinity river; Peh-tuck or Upper Klamath; Poh-lik or Lower Klamath
- States
- CA
- Counties
- Del Norte; Humboldt; Siskiyou; Trinity
- 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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