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Gathering A Pomo woman demonstrating traditional seed-gathering techniques, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1924.

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Pomo, Hokan-speaking North American Indians of the west coast of the United States. Their territory was centred in the Russian River valley some 50 to 100 miles (80 to 160 km) north of what is now San Francisco. Pomo territory also included the adjacent coastlands and the interior highlands near Clear Lake. A small detached group lived in the Sacramento River valley surrounded by Wintun people. Traditionally, the Pomo were a comparatively wealthy people, well...

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