MENDOCINO CO., 9/7/24 – Dozens of Native Americans will gather Sunday morning in Chico to start a long and emotional walk to Covelo as part of the annual Nome Cult Walk.
The five-day, 100-mile walk commemorates a tragic moment in American history when beginning on August 28, 1863, 461 Konkow (or Concow) Maidu were forcibly marched by the California State Militia from Chico to the Nome Cult Reservation in Round Valley. The walk took almost three weeks, much of it through what is now known as Mendocino National Forest.
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