There’s no way to confirm how many Pomo people were killed that day at the massacre. Army estimates from the time put the death toll at around 200 people. Contemporary Indigenous leaders estimate ...

“One big f—ing lie,” he said of that description of Bloody Island, which was actually the 1850 massacre of between 200 and 400 Pomo people — almost all women, children and elderly — on ...

Pomo tribal officials did not attend. “It’s going to be a bypass that’s going to serve us for a long, long time. It will be good for businesses, and the people of Willits can have their Main Street ...

Kelsey, 59, is the last person on Earth who is fluent in Elem Pomo, an 8,000-year-old dialect spoken by a people who once flourished along the shores of Clear Lake (Lake County).

clayton duncan, an elder of the pomo tribe, has been working for years to change the name of a town about 20 minutes south of his rancheria. THEY ENSLAVED THE NATIVES. THEIR PEOPLE WERE STARVED.

When Annie Burke died in 1962, she left her daughter with an important but daunting request. Annie and her daughter Elsie Allen were Pomo—a Native people whose traditions dictated that women’s ...

Pomo basket weaver Corine Pearce. Clip: Season 10 | 13m 2s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Corine Pearce is a Pomo basket weaver from Redwood Valley, CA. Throughout the history of the Pomo people ...

Unless California listens to Pomo people, Cal Fire may soon approve more timber harvest plans in Jackson Demonstration State Forest. As a Native Californian, I also hope to see conservation ...

Both the Pomo and Patwin people suffered further indignities in the 20th century after the U.S. designated small reservations for them, only to reverse course and strip them of those lands and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Eighteen people who define themselves as “half blood Indians” sued the United States for refusing to recognize them as a separate tribe from the Pinoleville Pomo Nation. The 18 ...

Thousands of people gathered Sunday under the oaks at Santa Rosa Junior College for the annual Native American Spring Celebration. "It's always an amazing gathering of local Pomo people and local ...