Buldam, California

Buldam is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California.

[1][2] Buldam, alternatively spelled Booldam or Bull Don, has been said to mean either "big river" in the Pomo language,[3] or "big holes", referring to the blowholes on the nearby coastal bluffs.

[4] Following the standard conventions of the Pomo people, in which a community of the Pomo was named by adding "-pomo" to the name of their principal site, the community at Buldam was called Buldam-pomo.

[6] However, this chronology is brought into question by other sources, who claim that cargo from the wreck of the Frolic in 1850, roughly 4 miles (6 km) north of the Big River, was salvaged by Pomo from Buldam.

By 1903, Buldam was gone; the only nearby settlements of Pomo that could be found off-reservation were in Fort Bragg, Noyo, and Little River.