A 55-year-old Santa Rosa woman died in the hospital from smoke inhalation she suffered in a Feb. 10 house fire, which claimed the lives of two of her three cats and hospitalized her daughter and ...

Citing “inescapable” historic facts, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has revived plans for a proposed $700 million Indian casino in Vallejo sought by a Pomo tribe whose Northern Ca… ...

On May 15, 1850, the U.S. Cavalry, aided by vigilantes, murdered scores of Pomo people, most of them women and children, on the false suspicion that they were involved in the killing of two white ...

On May 15, 1850, the U.S. Cavalry, aided by vigilantes, murdered scores of Pomo people, most of them women and children, on the false suspicion that they were involved in the killing of two white ...

The U.S. Department of Interior announced it approved the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians' request to place a 128-acre parcel of land, where a proposed casino project is set to live, in Vallejo ...

Margie Mejia, Chairwoman, left, and Cathy Lopez, Vice Chairwoman for the Lytton Band of the Pomo Indians, talk about this land that was taken from their people in the Alexander Valley area in ...

Woman seated outside hut made of tules next to stream near Lake Pomo, with another hut and woman (same as in ESC14.5) in background Natural History Museum. Woman seated outside hut made of tules next ...

Sonoma County is home to five federally recognized tribes. The Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians opened River Rock Casino near Geyserville, the county's first casino, in 2002.

The case, Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians v. U.S. Department of the Interior, Case No1:25-cv-00958-TNM., is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

For generations, the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians have faced hardships, Jesse Gonzalez, the tribe’s vice chairman, wrote in a statement sent to The Sacramento Bee. Losing land is one of them.

As a young citizen of the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe in Lake County, that sometimes makes for a challenging experience, but my tribe teaches me to persevere.