California Indian Museum and Cultural Center

Linda Hanes and I visited the California Indian Cultural Museum in Santa Rosa on Thursday the 5th of January and were surprised that it did not focus on beautiful woven baskets and beaded vests. Instead, it was a genocide museum for the Pomo (local), Miwok (to the South), and Wappo (to the East) tribes of the area. Fascinating videos of Ishii, the “last” of the local people. Displays of the Ten Steps of Genocide, so relevant to today’s government purges of people they deem suspicious.

As we visited the center, there was a presentation going on in the main conference room. It looked like the Museum was explaining Native History to a group of local park rangers. I would have loved to seen that!