Bokea, California

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Bokea (also, Boch-heaf) is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California,[1] one of a number of Pomo settlements catalogued by Stephen Powers.[2] It was located in Rancheria Valley; its precise location is unknown.[1]

The Boch-heaf band of Pomo are one of four bands of Pomo described by George Gibbs as living between Hopland and the coast; the other three are Moiya, Tabahtea, and Ubakhea.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bokea, 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. ^ Barrett, Samuel Alfred (1908), The Ethno-geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 1, University of California Press, p. 178