WHO IS GREG SARRIS?
HYPERTEXTS
CULTURAL PROPERTY AND ETHICS
POSTMODERN ANTHROPOLOGY
RESOURCES ON CALIFORNIA INDIANS
POMO CULTURE

Who are the Pomo?
Where do the Pomo Live?
Pomo Architecture
Pomos and Education
Pomo Religion
Pomo Baskets
California Indian Film Clips & Music
Pomo History
Pomo Medicine

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POMO RESOURCES

WHO IS GREG SARRIS?

• The Native American Authors Project's source page on Sarris.
• A Review of Sarris' novel Grand Avenue

Feature articles from News from Native California:

• "Native People of the Other California" by Michael Wilken Vol. 10, No. 3, Spring 1997
  • Accompanying features:
  • The Native Cultures Institute of Baja California
  • "Coyote Meets Stinkbug"
  • Kuri Kuri

   

CULTURAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ETHICS

• These pages deal with the moral and ethical rights surrounding cultural property, be it material, literary, geographic, symbolic, etc. There are a diverse range of perspectives presented within these pages, and many more exists on the web and beyond: how do the similarities and differences presented herein focus the questions of cultural property confronting Indians today?
  1. Native American Rights Fund
  2. National Congress of American Indians
  3. First Nations: Issues of Consequence
  4. Cultural Survival
  5. A list of suggested readings on Cultural Porperty Rights from Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
  6. Society for Applied Anthropology
  7. The Walking Stick Foundation
  8. Hatcher Center For Human Rights
  9. An online bibliography at USC for Books on Images & Stereotypes of Native Americans
  10. Visit the Smithsonian Native American Museum site to see a presentation of cultural artifacts
  11. The Cradleboard Teaching Project
  12. National Indian Justice Center
  13. A site dedicated to Traditional Knowledge Research & Policy Development

If you are finding the article "Ethnography Without Tears" difficult, you may want to use the following web pages on defining postmodern anthropology as resources:

• Anthro.Net's page on Postmodern Anthropology
• "Writing, General Knowledge, and Postmodern Anthropology," by Paul Smith

• California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
• Tribal Bibliographies
• California Indian Storytelling Association
• Northern California Indian Development Council
• The News From Native California Homepage
  • This is a journal by and about California Indians. The page includes articles from recent volumes and information on back issues.

Who are the Pomo?

Visit this Pomo community's site for a comprehensive description of Pomo culture and history.

Pinoleville Indian Reservation (includes a history and many photographs of the reservation)

Where do the Pomo Live?

For more information on the Pomos and their environment, read about the Sinkyone Intertribal Forest National Park.

Pomo Architecture

Click here for information on Indian Roundhouses. This page is put together by the Costanoan Ohlone Indian Canyon Resource Center and contains information on Northern California Roundhouses.

Pomos and Education

The Stewart Indian School opened in the 1890s and educated American Indians from the Pomo and Warm Springs Tribes (among many others).

Pomo Religion

If you would like more information on Northern California Indian religions see this page on the Nome Cult.

Pomo Baskets

This is a page written by Laura with links to images of baskets and weavers, as well as information on the uses and types of Baskets made in California.

California Indian Film Clips & Music

This page from the Costanoan Tribe includes a short audio of a Pomo Hunting Song. (You will probably need to download it onto your desktop and then clip on it there to make it play.) It also includes various film clips one of which is on a roundhouse.

Pomo History

For an Indian account of the California Gold Rush, check out Original Voices's interesting native history project.

Pomo Medicine

For information on contemporary medical facilities for the Pomo see the Elsie Allen Health Center's webpage. As a more general source, you might also visit the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POMO RESOURCES

This is a bibliography put together by the curators of the California Indian Library Collection at UC Berkeley. You might also find the bibliography of Coastal Miwok sources useful.

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