For California Indians and all Native Americans, relationships to homelands are demonstrated through story, rock art, material daily practices, and ceremony. One way to study Indigenous peoples’ relationship to their homelands is through geography. Indigenous peoples have always mapped spaces of social and spiritual significance in ways that may seem surprising to those who only engage with contemporary road maps or gps. Indigenous peoples such as the Miwok, Modoc, and Yurok mapped their relationships with their homelands through grinding stones, petroglyphs and place names. Indigenous mapping of homelands did not rely on exclusionary borders; homelands constituted by relations with other nations and more-than-human beings. Mapping has long been a tool of conquest for imperial and colonial invasion which sought to displace/erase Indigenous relationships to homelands. For example, Sue-Meg was renamed “Patrick’s Point” by U.S. settlers as a way to erase Yurok presence and persistence on their homelands. Importantly, reconstituting California Indian homelands into the territorial sovereignty of the U.S. was accomplished in part by mapping. However, California Indian geographies and mapping practices have endured occupation. Sites such as Chaw’se, Lava Beds, and Sue-Meg demonstrate California Indian peoples embodied resistance and persisting Indigenous geographies. California Indian mapping practices mark Indigenous places and assert ongoing presence in spite of U.S. occupation.