The earliest noted documentation of Native Americans in this area was by General Drake in 1579, but it cannot be certain that the people he encountered were what is now considered to be the Pomo.

Later expeditions by John Wesley Powell[5] in 1891 and Samuel Barrett[2] in 1908 would record accounts of the language family and its branches.

The Pomo inhabited a massive amount of territory north of the San Francisco Bay and surrounding Clear Lake in northern California, USA.

[7] Northern Pomo normally avoids the use of birth names in conversation, instead using relational terminology such as father, mother, sister, etc.

Northern Pomo switches between regular possession and possessor raising depending upon the term the speaker wants to focus upon.