Bokea, California
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
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bokea, 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
- 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
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