Lema, California

Lema (also, La-ma or La-mah) is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California,[1] one of a number of Pomo settlements catalogued by Stephen Powers.[2] It was 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Hopland.[1] One of the mines of red clay from which the Pomo people took their name was located there.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lema, California
  2. ^ Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed. (1910), Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 2, Bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, vol. 30, Washington, Govt. print. off, p. 277
  3. ^ Boyce, Janice Walters (1977), Pomo Cradles, University of California
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