Our ancestors lived along the
various streams and tributaries of the Feather
River in the area that is now Butte County,
California. First contact with Euro-Americans in
the 1830s brought diseases that killed many of our
people. The results of the gold rush of 1849 were
devastating to the native peoples. The US Congress
secreted away the 18 Treaties made with the
California Tribes. The miners and settlers coming
into the area led to predation on the native's
traditional food sources resulting in starvation.
The new State of California passed many
discriminatory laws which allowed raids by slave
traders; legal indenture; a policy of deportation
to reservations; and finally, extermination of
those that would not be corralled and herded to
the
Round Valley Reservation, in 1863.
This site has been constructed
to develop our tribal documentation for two
purposes:
1. Federal recognition of the
Konkow Valley Band of Maidu as an Indian
Tribe.
2. Clarification and affirmation
of the federal status of the ConCow Maidu
Tribe.
This is a work in
progress; last updated 11/23/2007
Special Thanks to JET
Technologies LLC
for the support rendered in this continuing endeavor.
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