Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation
The Round Valley Indian Tribe, originally known as the Covelo Indian Community, is a federally recognized confederation of Native American tribes. These include the Yuki, Wailaki, Concow (or Konkow), Little Lake and other Pomo, Nomlaki, and Pit River peoples. The coalition was created as federal legislation forcibly removed other indigenous groups from their ancestral land to land originally occupied by the Yuki people in Round Valley. Part of this forced unification was the forced removal of Northern Californian Concow Maidu people from their land in the Sacramento Valley to the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Mendocino County. The 100 mile march became known as the Concow Trail of Tears or the Nome Cult Trail.
The Round Valley Indian Reservation is a federally recognized Indian reservation lying primarily in northern Mendocino County, California, United States. A small part of it extends northward into southern Trinity County. The total land area, including off-reservation trust land, is 93.939 km2 (36.270 sq mi). More than two-thirds of this area is off-reservation trust land, including about 405 acres (1.64 km2) in the community of Covelo. The total resident population as of the 2020 census was 454 persons.