Susan (Susie) Santiago Billy (October 5, 1884 – November 20, 1968) born Andrea Susan Santiago, was a Native American

Pomo The Pomo are an Indigenous people of California. Historical Pomo territory in Northern California was large, bordered by the Pacific Coast to the west, extending inland to Clear Lake, and mainly between Cleone and Duncans Point. One small grou ...

basket weaver from the Hopland Band Pomo Indians of

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in Northern California. Her parents were Silva Santiago and Tudy Marie Arnold. In 1900 she married Cruz Billy, a leader at the Hopland Rancheria. Her granddaughter is artist

Susan Billy Susan Billy (born April 27, 1951) is a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Hopland Band Pomo Indians of Northern California. Life Billy was born in Hot Springs, South Dakota in 1951. She owns and operates Bead Fever, a bead store i ...

who was inspired by her grandmother to learn the art of Pomo basketry and later studied under her great-aunt

Elsie Allen Elsie Comanche Allen (September 22, 1899 – December 31, 1990) was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California, significant as for historically categorizing and teach ...

for 15 years until her aunt's death in 1990. She was an curator, speaker and demonstrator at many cultural events of her home community. Billy Susan takes a large part in museum exhibitions across the United States.

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