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Pomo, also known as Pomoan or less commonly Kulanapan, is a language family that includes seven distinct and mutually unintelligible languages, including Northern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, Central Pomo, Southern Pomo, and Kashaya.
Like many of Powell's obscure nomenclatural proposals, particularly for California languages, "Kulanapan" was ignored. In its place, Pomo, [2] the term used by Indians and Whites alike for Northern Pomo, was arbitrarily extended to include the rest of the family. All seven languages were first systematically identified as Pomo by Samuel Barrett ...
The Pomo are an Indigenous People of California. Pomo may also refer to: Pomo languages, a language family of the Pomo People; the Pomo dialect of the Pol language, spoken in the Republic of the Congo; Pomo religion, religion of the Pomo People; Pomo, California, an unincorporated community; Postmodernism, often shortened to po-mo or pomo
Northern Pomo is a critically endangered Pomoan language, formerly spoken by the indigenous Pomo people in what is now called California. The speakers of Northern Pomo were traditionally those who lived in the northern and largest area of the Pomoan territory.
The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo people in Sonoma County, California. [1] They are also known as the Kashaya Pomo. The reservation, Stewarts Point Rancheria, is located in Stewarts Point in northwest Sonoma County, south of Point Arena. As of 2010, 78 people live on Stewarts ...
Pomo (Pomo for "Those who live at red earth hole") is an archaic place name in Mendocino County, California. [1] It was located 1.25 miles (2 km) southeast of Potter Valley , [ 2 ] at an elevation of 942 feet (287 m).
The Pinoleville Pomo Nation is a small band of the greater Pomo Tribe of Northern California. The Pinoleville Pomo Nation is originally from Potter Valley, California, located eighteen miles (29 km) north-northeast of Ukiah, California where the Pinoleville Pomo Nation currently resides.
Southern Pomo speakers did not have a name for their language or themselves. As the southernmost of the Pomo, the speakers of the language were the first to suffer the ravages of Spanish and, later, U.S. invasion. Southern Pomo speakers were used by the Spanish to construct the last of the California missions.