COVELO IS A SMALL TOWN IN THE BACKWOODS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY AND IT IS WHERE A NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICANS STILL LIVE. IN THE 1930'S WHEN THE PIONEERS FORCED MOST NATIVE AMERICANS OFF OF THEIR TERRITORY, THEY WALKED ON A TRAIL OF TEARS TO THIS SMALL TOWN WHERE THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TRIBES. SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE STILL ANGRY ABOUT BEING FORCED OFF OF THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS. I HAVE COMPLETED MANY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS.HERE AND AND RECORDED SOME SMALL TEMPORARY CAMPSITES AND A NUMBER OF HISTORIC CAMPSITES.
AS AN HISTORIC TOWN IT BEGAN IN 1860 WITH THE OPENING OF THE TOWN'S FIRST STORE. THERE TOWN WAS NAMED AFTER A TOWN IN SWITZERLAND. THERE ARE ABOUT 2000 PEOPLE THERE OF WHICH 40% ARE INDIANS. THE COVELO INDIAN RESERVATION IS FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED. THEIR TOTAL POPULATION WAS 300 IN 2000. THERE ARE MANY TRIBES HERE INCLUDING YUKI, WHO ORIGINALLY LIVED HERE.THE FOLLOWING TRIBES WERE FORCED INTO THE LANDS - CONCOW, MAIDU, LITTLE LAKE, AND OTHER POMO, NOMLAKI, CAHTO, WAILAKI, AND PIT RIVER TRIBES. THE NOME CULT FARM BEGAN IN 1856 BUT PRIOR TO THAT IT WAS OCCUPIED PREHISTORICALLY. THE INDIANS WERE SEGREGATED BY THE SETTLERS. INDIANS WERE "DRIVEN" FORCIBLY TO COVELO LIKE HERDS OF CATTLE. THE ELDERLY AND SICK DID NOT SURVIVE.
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