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There were an estimated 8,000 to 21,000 Pomo among 70 tribes speaking seven Pomo languages at the time of European contact. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The way of life of the Pomo changed with the arrival of Russians at Fort Ross (1812 to 1841) on the Pacific coastline, and Spanish missionaries and European-American colonists]coming in from the south and east.
Of the current speakers of these languages, many live within the same areas. Pomoan is a family of seven languages. Their relationship to one another was first formally recognized by John Wesley Powell , who proposed that they be called the "Kulanapan Family" (Powell 1891).
The Pomo are a group of Natives who originate in California. They descend from the Hokan speaking people of the Sonoma County region. [ 1 ] Their territory lying in North California, centered in the Russian River valley on the boarder of the Pacific Coast , stretching out a 50 to 100 mile radius.
Sherwood Valley Rancheria is a community of Coastal Pomo Indians, who are indigenous to Sonoma and Mendocino Counties in northern California. Their historical community was called Kulá Kai Pomo, and they traditionally lived along the upper course of the Eel River. They spoke the Pomo language. The last traditional chief of the Kulá Kai Pomo ...
Northern Pomo is a critically endangered Pomoan language, formerly spoken by the indigenous Pomo people in what is now called California. The speakers of Northern Pomo were traditionally those who lived in the northern and largest area of the Pomoan territory. Other communities near to the Pomo were the Coast Yuki, the Huchnom, and the Athabascan.
Most of the Coast Miwok continued to live in their traditional lands through the 20th century. They worked in sawmills, as agricultural laborers, and fished to supplement their incomes. [citation needed] The Graton Rancheria was a 15-acre (61,000 m 2) Indian rancheria near Sebastopol in Sonoma County. The rancheria was established for Coast ...
Patterson documents that in the Central Pomo dialect "Squaw Rock" was called kawao maatha qhabe, Frog Woman Rock. Thus, there is cultural and ethnographic evidence from speakers of both the Northern Pomo and Central Pomo language that this location was, and still is, known by local Native Pomo as the dwelling of Frog Woman.
In 1893 the Pinoleville captains joined with other Northern Pomo captains and traded their land at $10 for 100 acres between Ackerman Creek (ya-mo-bida – wind hole creek), and Orr springs Road. This is where the Pinoleville Pomo people settled. The captains allowed displaced families and tribelets to live in Pinoleville.