Nation
Mo-al-kaiMo-al-kai
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- Region
- California
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Mo-al-kai as a party: California Treaty O: Camp Lu-pi-yu-ma, 1851 (unratified).
The records group it with Pomo.
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
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Round Valley Indian Tribes
- Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians of the Big Valley Rancheria, California
- Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
- Coyote Valley Band of Pomo
- Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, California
- Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria, California
- Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, California
- Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, California
Working with these nations
- InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council Nation government Land conservation and return of coastal Sinkyone lands to tribal stewardship (nearly 5,000 acres protected) Give on their site Website
- Kai Poma Native-led Receive and steward Blues Beach (136 acres), first state-owned land transfer of its kind in California per ActiveNorCal
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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Part of 1
- Pomosuggested
Party to 1
Sources
- archive.org/stream/handbookofameric01hodg/handbookofameric01hodg_djvu.txtunclassified
Boalkea. A Pomo village, speaking the northern dialect, in Scott valley ... Gibbs, in 1851, gave them, under the name Moalkai
Research notes
Named in an unratified California treaty of 1851-52. People: Pomo (Northern Pomo dialect, Scotts Valley: Boalkea). Candidate present-day: Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians (named for this valley) - not verified. [Hodge 1907-10 quote transcribed from archive.org OCR with obvious OCR errors corrected.]
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