MENDOCINO CO., 9/5/26 — Vandals damaged or scattered flowers, flags and memorial items on several gravesites at a Round Valley Indian Reservation cemetery north of Covelo, the Round Valley Tribal Police Department said.
Tribal police officers responded Friday to the Headquarters Cemetery near Biggar Lane and Highway 162 after a report that multiple gravesites had been vandalized and disturbed, the department said in a statement posted on its Facebook page that afternoon.
Officers found several gravesites where flowers, flags, memorial items and other property had been damaged or scattered through the cemetery, the statement said. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office was called and responded to assist.
The sheriff’s office daily media log for Friday lists a vandalism call at 9:42 a.m. at a location on Biggar Lane in Covelo, incident number 2026-00016637. The log gives no description of the incident.
Neither agency has announced an arrest or described a suspect. The tribal police statement did not say when the damage happened or how many graves were affected.
Headquarters Cemetery is a tribal cemetery about a mile north of the unincorporated community of Covelo. It is not one of the three cemeteries run by the Covelo Public Cemetery District.
“Cemeteries are sacred places where our loved ones are laid to rest and where families go to honor and remember them,” the tribal police statement said. “Please respect these areas and the families of those buried there.”
The department asked anyone with information to contact law enforcement. The Round Valley Tribal Police Department can be reached at 707-983-8227. The sheriff’s office tip line is 707-234-2100.
Maybe they didn’t lIke cheap crap made in China?
Megan must think this is funny. When your community has a road called Indian dick road, does it surprise anyone this BS still happens and no one is held accountable. Racism is ugly and it ruins the quality of life for everyone.
Not racism just stating a fact about all the cheap crap we put on our graves.
Read the history behind the name indian dick. If you have the time.
Megan, this is the Google search result. If you can’t see the racism, you might be racist. 🫤
Naming Origin: Like several other contentious or racist geographic features in Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity counties tied to early settler colonialism and the displacement of the Round Valley Indian Reservation tribes, the label reflects colloquial frontier naming from the violent 1850s–1900s era of the California Indian Wars rather than an officially honored namesake. Contemporary reviews by tribal bodies and federal forest services have periodically sought to identify and revise these legacy offensive place names
*Correction: I’ll stand being corrected about the road name being named after someone. Fair enough.
Cheap crap, as you put it, is not a state of fact but a subjective opinion. Given the criminality of this act, your comment is demeaning to people who hold sacred their deceased loved ones. Given this was the first thing you decided to write seems mean, unnecessary, and spits in the faces of the people who have loved ones buried here.
It may have been vandals. But it also looks a lot like the mess bear will leave after getting in to stuff. I wouldn’t expect things smelling like food (for bear) unless someone had had a picnic there recently, and left some food crumbs or scents.
I was thinking bears too!
It’s disrespect, wrong in All ways! Everyone mourns in different ways! It shld be left alone! Sacred ground!