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unusual facts about Pomo



Abraham M. Halpern

Among the speakers he worked with in the 1980s were Pomo basketweaver Elsie Allen.

Bloody Island

Bloody Island Massacre, an 1850 massacre, for which the California island is named, of Pomo Indians by the U.S. Army

Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California

The Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo Indians in California.

Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians

The Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo people, an indigenous people of California.

Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake

Known for their extensive trade networks, the Habematolel Pomo traded magnesite and obsidian with the Coast Miwoks for a variety of shells.

The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo Indians in Lake County, California.

Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria

The Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo people in Mendocino County, California, south of Ukiah.

John Philips

A monument in his memory was erected in 1710 by Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt in Westminster Abbey, between the monuments to Chaucer and Drayton, with the motto Honos erit huic quoque pomo from the title page of Cyder.

Julia Parker

Julia F. Parker (born 1928), Pomo-Miwok basket weaver from California

Kashaya

Kashaya language, a distinct Pomo language on the Sonoma County Coastline, California

Labrador tea

The Pomo, Kashaya, Tolowa and Yurok of Northern California boiled the leaves of Western Labrador Tea similarly, to make a medicinal tisane.

Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester Rancheria

The Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester Rancheria, formerly named the 'Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo Indians in California.

Nagabonar Jadi 2

The story begins when old Nagabonar comes to Jakarta from Medan at the request of his son, a successful young businessman who runs a large company with three of his closest friends, Pomo (Darius Sinathrya), Ronnie (Uli Herdinansyah) and Jaki (Michael Muliadro).

Native American religion

The Bole-Maru Religion was a religious revitalization movement of the Maidu, Pomo, Wintun, and other tribes of north-central California in the 19th century.

Pinoleville Pomo Nation

The Pinoleville Pomo Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo people in Mendocino County, California.

Samuel Barrett

The final major work of his life was to produce a series of films about the peoples of Northern California such as the Pomo, particularly the Kashaya.

Barrett's system of naming the languages of the Pomoan group included seven names based on geographical terms: Northern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Southern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Central Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, and Southwest Pomo (now more commonly referred to as Kashaya).

Schoenoplectus acutus

One of the few Pomo survivors of the Bloody Island Massacre (also called the Clear Lake Massacre) in Northern California, a 6-year-old girl named Ni'ka, or Lucy Moore, evaded the United States Cavalry by hiding underwater and breathing through a tule reed, and was thereby able to survive.

Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California

The Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo Indians in California.

Southern Pomo language

A small amount of data was collected by early researchers such as Samuel Barrett; however, extensive work was not carried out until Abraham M. Halpern, in the 1940s, collected a number of Southern Pomo words and texts as part of a larger effort to collect data on all the Pomo languages.

Robert L. Oswalt, who wrote a grammar of the related Kashaya (Southwestern Pomo) language, began to collect Southern Pomo data approximately twenty years after Halpern's fieldwork.


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