THE KONKOW VALLEY BAND OF MAIDU INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA

 The Archeological record that migration into what today is called Butte and Plumas Counties, in California, started around 500 AD, but we the Konkow say this is the land that Kodoyampa created us in. Like the biblical " Garden of Eden" the Konkow Valley (Kojomk'awi) is just that as the traditional name applies. What the scholars don't say or talk about are the petroglyphs or Rock Art of Mammoths, as well as Prehistoric bones that have been uncovered back when this land, we call our Homeland was invaded by strange humans with fur on their faces, looking for the yellow stones that we thought of being evil. When the first settlers arrived most of the Konkow people went deeper in the Mountains where they would be left alone. There were many bands that made up the Konkow Maidu tribe, almost like towns make up a county with names that gave a clue to what area they were from.

With such a vast area the Konkows were the largest tribe around Butte and Plumas counties with their tribal lands that stretched from the western side of Table Mountain, where Lake Oroville now engulfed many sites is named WEL-U-DA and it stretched from Table Mountains over threw Paradise up threw Magalia, up to Nimshew, around up past the Grassy Lakes, to Beldon, down Pulga and the now Hwy 70 corridor, back down to Big Bend past Konkow(Concow) past Cherokee and back down to Table Mountain. With over lapping or common areas with Mechoopda, Berry Creek or Tyme Maidu and Mountain Maidu.

This Map was done by Matthew Williford Sr. the Cultural Advisor and Tribal Chair of The Konkow Valley Band of Indians for the Plumas County Forest and The Native America Heritage Commision to help them determine tribal boundaries.