Land area
Land of the Hupa (S. Fork, Redwood, and Grouse Creek bands) in California, recorded 1864 (area 461)
- 1864
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “Superintendent Wiley locates the whole of Hoopa valley as one of the reserves contemplated by act of Apr. 8, 1864”
- 1876
Earlier terms confirmed
The 1899 record: “these boundaries were adopted and declared to be the true boundaries of the Hoopa Valley reserve”
- 1891
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “The President extends the limits of their reservation so as to include a tract of country 1 mile in width on each side of the Klamath river”
In the record
Chosen in 1864 by Superintendent Wiley as the Hoopa Valley reserve for the Hupa, given set boundaries by executive order in 1876, and extended along the Klamath River in 1891. Never ceded. The area covers about 92 thousand acres in what is now California.
The 1899 record names Hupa (Hoopa Valley) as the people of this land.
Today, Hoopa Valley Tribe, California 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 2
- Hoopa Valley Tribe, Californiamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Hupa (Hoopa Valley)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1864-08-21primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1876-06-23primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: California 2 (Library of Congress)primary record
- USDA Forest Service, Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States (digitized Royce maps)reference work
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 461
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1864-08-21; 1876-06-23; 1891-10-16
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Hupa (S. Fork, Redwood, and Grouse Creek bands)
- States
- CA
- Counties
- Humboldt
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- California 2
- 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.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium