Lema (also, La-ma or La-mah) is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California, one of a number of Pomo settlements catalogued by Stephen Powers. It was 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Hopland. One of the mines of red clay from which the Pomo people took their name was located there.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lema, California
- 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
- Boyce, Janice Walters (1977), Pomo Cradles, University of California
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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