Nation

Pomo

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Region: California

In the record

The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Pomo as a party: California Treaty P: Camp Fernando Feliz, 1851 (unratified).

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Pomo: California: 18 unratified treaties (1851-52) and the secrecy until 1905.

The records group it with Round Valley Indian Tribes. Today, 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 and 9 more carry this history, as their own pages or research records say. Land has come back: Blues Beach transfer to Kai Poma (Pomo tribes).

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.

The record over time

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Who is doing the work

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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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Present-day governments that carry this history 15

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Includes 7

Land recorded in this nation’s name 3, matched by the Forest Service, under review

Named in 2

Sources

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Research notes

Named in the party text of California treaty P.

Kind: Nation
Confidence: Medium
Nation review: Not yet reviewed by this nation

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