Land area
Land of the Round Valley Reservation Indians in California, taken 1873 (area 583)
- 1873
Taken back by the United States
The 1899 record: “Restores part of Round Valley reservation to public domain”
- 1873
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “President withdraws from sale certain lands in Round valley, specified by act of Mar. 3, 1873, until report of commissioners is received fixing N. boundary”
- 1875
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President proclaims the boundaries of Round Valley reservation in accordance with act of Congress Mar. 3, 1873”
In the record
The Round Valley reservation in California as fixed after an 1873 act returned its southern part to the public domain and redrew its boundaries, proclaimed in 1875; not ceded. The area covers about 141 thousand acres in what is now California.
The 1899 record names Round Valley Indian Tribes as the people of this land.
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
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
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Nations named for this land 1, as named in the 1899 record
- Round Valley Indian Tribessuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1873-03-03primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1875-05-18primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: California 2 (detail of Round Valley reservation) (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
- 583
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1873-03-03; 1873-04-08; 1875-05-18
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Round Valley Reservation Indians
- States
- CA
- Counties
- Mendocino; Trinity
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- California 2 (detail of Round Valley reservation)
- 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