MIWOK
1579 – Earliest record of the Miwok Indians made by Europeans who landed in the Marin county that year.
1769-1823 – The Mission Period: The Spanish and Mexicans came to this area of California and used the Miwoks to build missions. Even after this period, the Native Americans were still servants to the Mexicans who had taken over the Miwok lands.
1823-1880 – After the mission period, the Miwoks were given 80,000 acres of land in Nicasio (northwest of what is now San Rafael). About 500 Native Americans moved there.
1850 – By this time, the 36 remaining Native Americans living in Nicasio were persuaded to leave and join poor farms.
1861 – The United States Congress enacted legislation that took away Native Americans’ right to almost all the land in California. This left most tribes entirely landless.
1920 – The Bureau of Indian Affairs purchased 15.45 acres of land for the Morshall, Bodega, Tomales, and Sebastopol Indians. These four neighboring groups became one recognized group, Graton Rancheria.
1990– Miwoks, now organized as the Federated Coast Miwok and later renamed the Federated Indians of Graton Ranceria, were still struggling to protect their cultural and political identity and their aboriginal territory.
2000 – President Clinton signed legislation into law that gave land back to the Federated Indians of Graton Ranceria. Due to technicalities, the only land belonging to the tribe is one acre that is held in private ownership by one Cost Miwok family.
Today – The Tribe, although still landless, continues to work for its people.
POMO
Early 1700s – This was the beginning of the Mexican-Spanish mission period in California. The Pomo peoples were relatively unharmed by this group because they lived farther north than these settlers traveled.
1700s- mid-1800s – The Pomo Indians were invaded by Russian fur-traders who made a base in Fort Ross on Bodega Bay in 1812. This base was devastating to the Pomo people because they used that site as their main hunting and gathering grounds in the summer.
When they invaded, the Russians would kidnap all the women and children and hold them as hostages so the men would work. The Pomo and Tlingit (who lived farther north) groups did show resistance to the Russians. The resistance was mainly in small efforts like sabotages, small attacks, and escapes.
1850 – By this time, hundreds of Pomo had been captured and sold. The most extreme example of these captors were people like Charles Stone and Andrew Kelsey who severely abused and murdered their Indian farm hands. The Pomo were also being sold by mule trains to different parts of the state and country because slavery of Native Americans was still not illegal.
1851- 1852 – 18 treaties were signed that would have given about 8.5 million acres of land to the Native Americans. Unfortunately, the pressures from the ranchers and miners were so strong that the natives only ended up with 4 small reservations and a few small “rancherias.” These locations served the white settlers as an easy way to get the natives out of the way of the American whites who were coming west. Some of these natives, especially those who lived in the fertile lands in the south of Pomo country, were rounded up in “death marches” and kept prisoner at Fort Bragg and Covelo. Some of these prisoners were able to escape and return to their land, but most of the time their traditional villages had been taken over by whites because they were good locations for farming. This forced the Pomo Indians to live on the outskirts of the land. They were also no longer able to live their traditional lifestyle which consisted of living in a village site during the winter and migrating to the coast during the summer to fish and hunt.
1878 – A group of Northern Pomo people bought 7 acres of land in Coyote Valley.
1880 – Another group of Northern Pomo people bought 100 acres along Ackerman Creek. These two groups were able to work in trade for land as well as selling the baskets they made by hand.
1900 – By this time most of the land that had been purchased was lost because of high land taxes. Over two-thirds of the California Indians were landless at that time.
1906 – The 18 treaties of 1851-1852 were “rediscovered” and 54 rancherias were established. Unfortunately, these rancherias were placed around existing settlements, so the land was undesirable and isolated. Many Indians did not live there for quite a few years. During this time, most worked as wage labor in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Today – There are about 22 recognized (federal reservation) rancherias whose populations are entirely or mostly Pomo. Even so, about two-thirds of tribal members do not live on tribal lands.
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