In the Alaguali tradition, this lake in Sonoma County was a place of healing. Charmstones found in the lake bed date to more than 4,000 years old, and come from as far away as Mexico.
The Charms of Tolay Lake Regional Park
June 28, 2017 •
Greg Sarris
Greg Sarris is an author, screenwriter, college professor, and the current Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. He was appointed in 2005 to fill the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University.
Point Reyes: Fidel’s Place
July 1, 2012 •
Three days after the Indian–I’ll call him Fidel–avenged the assault on his wife and slayed the young rancher who’d committed the horrible deed, the posse of vigilantes pursuing him found him, not near the small settlement of Marshall, but across Tomales Bay on a ridge; and not in a thicket of coyote bush and low-growing fir where he might’ve hidden, but in the middle of an open grassland.
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Bluebelly
January 1, 2011 •
Greg Sarris, currently Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, grew up in Santa Rosa, left for many years, and has now resettled on Sonoma Mountain. The bluebellies were there in his childhood and are still there now, woven into the landscape and the history of Sarris’s people.
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On Sacred Places
April 1, 2003 •
Tom Smith. A simple name. Not so the man. My great-great-grand-father. Father and grandfather and great-grandfather to many Coast Miwok and Pomo people. I’ve told stories about him, stories I have heard, stories others tell: how he performed miracles healing … Read more