Land area
Land of the King's River and Tule River or Madden Farm reservation Indians in California, ceded 1878 (area 607)
- 1873
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President sets apart a reserve at Tule river, bounded as follows”
- 1873
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President cancels reserve made by Executive order Jan. 9, 1873, and establishes another at Tule river in lieu thereof”
- 1878
Taken back by the United States
The 1899 record: “President restores to public domain part of reservation set apart by Executive order of Oct. 3, 1873”
In the record
Set apart as the Tule River reserve by 1873 orders; part was returned to the public domain in 1878, and the rest is the reserve as it stood in the 1899 federal record. The area covers about 74 thousand acres in what is now California.
The 1899 record names Tule River Indian Tribe 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
- Tule River Indian Tribe Nation government 17,030 acres (Yowlumne Hills) with tule elk reintroduction, Oct 2025
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, matched by the Forest Service, under review
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1873-01-09primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1873-10-03primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1878-08-03primary 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
- 607
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1873-01-09; 1873-10-03; 1878-08-03
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- King's River; Tule River or Madden Farm reservation Indians
- States
- CA
- Counties
- Tulare
- 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