Indigenous
Coast Miwok and Pomo
Indigenous
Coast Miwok and Pomo
Our religion is based on visions and dreams. It tells us to be good, to love one another, to be kind to one another and not do bad things.
Winifred Leal, Voices and Dreams: A Native American Oral History. 1991.
it is told that there is a place in the desert where the spirit of women and the spirit of wolves meet across time.

Yokaia Pomo Stephen Knight (seated center), with a delegation representing 20,000 California Indians lobbying Sen. Hiram Johnson to honor broken treaties, Washington DC, 1922