Nation
Po-ho-nee-cheesPo-ho-nee-chees
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- Region
- California
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Po-ho-nee-chees as a party: California Treaty N: Camp Barbour, San Joaquin River, 1851 (unratified).
Today, Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
Names
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Names in treaties and records
Who is doing the work
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Working with these nations
- Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Nation government About 900 acres returned Dec 2025
- Pacific Forest Trust Allied land trust Stewarded the land for 20 years before ~900-acre return near Yosemite (Dec 2025) Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Party to 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
- Southern Sierra Miwuk Nationsuggested
Sources
- wiki.farwestern.com/index.php/NIPINNAWASSEE_REGIONunclassified
The “Po-ho-nee-chees” were among 16 local tribes of the upper Chowchilla, San Joaquin, and Kings rivers to sign federal Treaty N
Research notes
Named in an unratified California treaty of 1851-52. People: Pohonichi (Southern Sierra Miwok / Foothill Yokuts bilingual). Far Western: by 1908 they identified as Chowchilla Miwoks, part of one group with Mariposa-region Miwok. Present-day link to Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation is our inference (low).
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- Confidence
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