The Cahto-Pomo Indians are an Athabascan group who inhabited the hills and oak savannahs of the coast range in the northwestern corner of California.  The Pomo Indians had many different internal groups.  Cahto is a Northern Pomo group, meaning lake or Djilbi, which was an important village site.  There are more than 70 different tribes in the Pomo country and 7 different languages.

     Another name for the Cahto is Kaipomo.  Their language relates them distantly to many other tribes in regions like Alaska, Northern Canada and the Southwest United States.

     Native Americans have a deep respect for the land.  As a people they have lived here for 500 generations and have great knowledge and wisdom.   This wisdom was passed from generation to generation by their elders.

     Then settlers came with disrespect for the land and the native American's ways.  Treaties were signed and broken by our government and others.  The Indians were treated as slaves and massacred by the US military and other peoples.  The Native Americans land was taken away and surviving Indians were rounded up and forced into death marches.  The survivors were put into internment camps.

     Today with tremendous courage and perseverance only 4900 Pomo survive, according to the 1990 census.  Their elders have the wisdom of 500 generations of wisdom of living on the land.  Today we must learn this wisdom and a respect for their culture.  Native Americans, and the land, must be treated with the respect and given the rights they so richly deserve.  They know the connection to the land and skills we need to heal our planet and survive in the 21st century and beyond.

American Indians of the

Pacific Northwest Collection

http://content.lib.washington.
edu/aipnw/

California Pomo People,

Brief History

Native American Art

http://www.kstrom.net/
isk/art/basket/pomohist.html

San Diego State University

Library & Information Access

http://infodome.sdsu.edu/
research/guides/calindians/
calinddict.shtml
 

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Access Genealogy.com

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/
native/tribes/pomo/
pomoindianhist.htm

American Indians of the

Pacific Northwest

(American Memory,

Library of Congress)

http://memory.loc.gov/
ammem/award98/wauhtml/
aipnhome.html

American Indians of the

Pacific Northwest Collection

http://content.lib.washington.
edu/aipnw/

California Pomo People,

Brief History

Native American Art

http://www.kstrom.net/isk/
art/basket/pomohist.html

CALIFORNIA tribes:

Main Access Map and

tribes listing

http://www.kstrom.net/isk/
maps/ca/california.html

Official Site of:

ELEM Indian Colony

http://www.elemnation.org/

POMO Indian Tribes

of California

http://www.kstrom.net/isk/
maps/ca/pomopage.html

San Diego State University

Library & Information Access

http://infodome.sdsu.edu/
research/guides/calindians/
calinddict.shtml

The Alaska Native

Heritage Center

http://www.alaskanative.net/
34.asp