Several California tribes signed treaties with the United States in 1851 which promised lands to the tribes however these treaties were never ratified and many California tribes were left completely landless. History ĭue to the influx of non-Native settlers in California beginning in the mid-19th century, many California Indians were displaced from their traditional homelands. It was a former rancheria for Central Coast and Central valley tribes, including the Southern Pomo, a Hokan-speaking tribe, and Coast Miwok. The area is a few miles west of Santa Rosa, the largest of Sonoma County's nine cities and the County seat, population 147,595 in 2000.
The site is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the hamlet of Graton, population 1,815 in 2000. The Graton Rancheria was a 15.45-acre (62,500 m 2) property in the coastal hills of northern California, about two miles (3 km) northwest of Sebastopol.
