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The WATER Institute promotes community-based watershed literacy and action by: Reframing the policy debate around water quality and supply at the city, county, and California state levels. Educating and empowering all sectors of regional economies to implement restoration, conservation, and policy changes for water security for communities ...
Mary and William enjoyed significant success in their artist careers of weaving Pomo baskets, traveled widely, and developed relationships with collectors and art dealers. [11] The couple demonstrated their weaving skills at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis in 1904. They had their own exhibit and jointly wove a basket that won ...
Grace Carpenter was born on February 21, 1865, in Potter Valley, California. [2] Her mother Helen McCowen was one of the first white school teachers educating Pomo children and was a commercial portrait photographer in Ukiah, California; her father Aurelius Ormando Carpenter was a skilled panoramic and landscape photographer who chronicled early Mendocino County frontier enterprises such as ...
Old horse stables Cal Poly at Pomona stands on the former Arabian horse ranch of cereal magnate W.K. Kellogg.. Events leading to the foundation of present-day Cal Poly Pomona began with the ending of the Voorhis School for Boys near Walnut Creek [18] in San Dimas, California and its acquisition by the San Luis Obispo-based California Polytechnic School in 1938.
The Pomo who remained in the present-day Santa Rosa area of Sonoma County were often called Cainameros in regional history books from the time of Spanish and Mexican occupation. In the Russian River Valley, a missionary colonized and baptized the Makahmo Pomo people of the Cloverdale area. Many Pomo left the valley because of this.
Their baskets are curated by museums such as the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, and the Field Museum of Natural History. [23] [24] Pomo tribe members, Elsie Allen (1899–1990) and her mother Annie Burke (1876-1962), made significant steps toward preservation by defying Pomo tradition. Burke asked her daughter ...
A Pomo Indian in a small tule boat in 1924. The Pomo are a group of Natives who originate in California. They descend from the Hokan speaking people of the Sonoma County region. [1] Their territory lying in North California, centered in the Russian River valley on the boarder of the Pacific Coast, stretching out a 50 to 100 mile radius.
Susan Santiago Billy (born Andrea Susan Santiago; October 5, 1884 – November 20, 1968) was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Hopland Band Pomo Indians of California in Northern California. Her parents were Silva Santiago and Tudy Marie Arnold. [1] In 1900, she married Cruz Billy, a leader at the Hopland Rancheria. [1]