The lands of the Pomo spread across modern-day Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake counties. The Pomo lack access to clay for pottery and so baskets are…
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John Rollin Ridge’s Cherokee name is Cheesquatalawny or “Yellow Bird.” He is considered the first Native American novelist. John is born in 1827 in New…
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As the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of many dialects of the Yokuts tribal group of the San Joaquin Valley, Marie Wilcox decides to…
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Che-na-wah Weitch-ah-wah is born in 1856 in Pecwan Village, on the Klamath River near the mouth of Pecwan Creek, in Humboldt County. She is a…
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