Lema, California

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Lema (also, La-ma or La-mah) is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California,{{gnis|1724208}} one of a number of Pomo settlements catalogued by Stephen Powers.{{citation|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookamindians01hodgrich/page/276|title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 2|editor-first=Frederick Webb|editor-last=Hodge|series=Bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology|volume=30|page=277|year=1910|publisher=Washington, Govt. print. off }} It was {{convert|4|mi|km}} northwest of Hopland. One of the mines of red clay from which the Pomo people took their name was located there.{{citation|title=Pomo Cradles|first=Janice Walters|last=Boyce|publisher=University of California|year=1977}}

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Category:Former settlements in Mendocino County, California

Category:Former populated places in California

Category:Pomo villages

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