Susan Santiago Billy (born Andrea Susan Santiago; October 5, 1884 – November 20, 1968) was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Hopland Band Pomo Indians of California in Northern California. Her parents were Silva Santiago and Tudy Marie Arnold.[1]
In 1900, she married Cruz Billy, a leader at the Hopland Rancheria. Her granddaughter is artist Susan Billy who was inspired by her grandmother to learn the art of Pomo basketry and later studied under her great-aunt Elsie Allen for 15 years until her aunt's death in 1990.[2] She was an curator, speaker and demonstrator at many cultural events of her home community.[3]