Pomo

The Pomos are Amerindian people Northern of the California to the the United States.
In the beginning, they are the language, the geographical presence and other cultural elements which unified Pomo but soialement and politically they did not form a " unified tribe ". Pomos lived in small communities ( " band" , troop), bound by the geography, the line and the marriages, and which met at the time of fishing, of hunting and the cueillettte. Pomos lived on the Pacifique coast in the north of San Francisco between Cleone and Duncan' S Point, and inside the grounds towards the lake Clear. A separated group, Pomos of the North-East, lived close to Stonyford.

The name Pomo is derived from a suffix - pomo or - poma which was attached to the names of the villages and the local groups and whose significance remains unknown. Pomos spoke seven languages (Pomo) different which are not mutually understandable. There remain today some speakers of some of enters they and Pomos makes efforts to preserve these languages as well as other elements of their culture.

There were approximately 8.000 Pomos in 1770. The census of 1910 counted 777 Pomos but this figure is probably underestimated. According to the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, Pomos were 1.200 this same year. According to the census of 1930 there were 1.143 Pomos. The United States recognizes many groups of natives as “tribes fédéralement identified,” giving them a statute quasi-sovereign similar to that of the States. Many of other groups are not identified. The groups of Pomos currently identified by the United States are concentrated in the Comté of Sonoma, the Comté of Lake, and the Comté of Mendocino. They include inter alia the following groups:

  • Lytton Band,

  • Cloverdale Band,
  • Dry Creek Band,
  • Guidiville Band,
  • Manchester-Point Arena Band,
  • Coyote Valley Band,
  • Hopland Band,
  • Big Valley Band, and
  • Kashia Band.

See too

  • Languages pomo

External bonds

  • Short history of the people Pomo

  • Gold, Greed and genocide: Pomo and Paiute
  • Big Valley Band of the Indians Pomo
  • Tribe Robinson Rancheria of the Indians Pomo
  • Resources on the histoite and the current life of the people Pomo

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