Mabel McKay (1907–1993) was a member of the Long Valley Cache Creek Pomo Indians and was of Patwin descent.
[3] She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Sarah Taylor, who taught her the Long Valley Cache Creek language and how to forage for medicinal plants.
[1] She began giving demonstrations in the State Indian Museum in Sacramento, where she refused to sell the baskets she made and instead gave them as gifts.
[1] In the late 1960s, McKay was on the Native American Advisory Council for a proposed dam in Dry Creek, which threatened to disturb an ancestral Pomo village site and long-standing beds of sedge.
[1] Prior to the end of World War II, Mabel married Charlie McKay,[8] with whom she had a son, Marshall (1952–2021).
[7] Greg Sarris published a biography of Mabel in 1997, called Weaving the Dream (University of California Press).