While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Patwin. Signifying "person" in their own language. Connections.—The Patwin
formed the southernmost and most diverse dialetic division of the former Wintun (or
Copehan) linguistic family, now considered part of the Penutian stock.
Location. On the western side of Sacramento Valley, and extending from San
Francisco Bay to a point a little south of Willows, occupying both sides
of Sacramento River from a few miles above its junction with Feather River
to the northern boundaries of their territory.
Subdivisions, or "Tribelets," and Villages
(As given by Kroeber, 1932)
River Patwin:
Colusa Dialect:
Katsi'l, less than a mile below the present Katsi'l Reservation.
Ke'ti', on the site of the present Princeton. Koru', in Colusa city, named
from it.
Kukui, one and a half miles below Koru'.
Sôma, 2 miles below modern Katsi'l, somewhat off the river, and not
certainly
an independent unit.
Tatno, perhaps 2 miles above Colusa.
Ts'a`, 3 miles below Princeton.
Wa'itere, 2 or 3 miles above the present Katsi'l, or "Colusa rancheria."
Grimes Dialect:
Ko'doi(-dihi), a mile below Sāka, on the J. Brown place.
Kusêmpu, on the east side of Sacramento River, perhaps a mile below
No'matsapin.
Lo'klokma-ti'nbe, in the southern outskirts of Grimes.
No'matsapin, about 5 miles downstream from Sāka.
Nōwi(-dihi), 1 mile below Lo'klokma-ti'nbe.
P'ālo, 1 or 2 miles downstream from Tsaki, some 3 miles above Kirkville.
Sāka, little more than 100 yards from last, at Eddy's Ferry.
Tsaki, 7 or 8 miles below Sāka.
T'inik(-dihi), on the east side about opposite Ko'doi, status uncertain.
Yali, opposite Sāka, on east bank.
Knight's Landing Dialect (only ones remembered) :
Hololum (?), between Kirkville and Knight's Landing.
Yo'doi, at Knight's
Landing giving name to Yolo.
Hill Patwin (from south to north):
South of Cache no names of tribelets are known but villages called Suskol,
Tuluka, Ula-to, Topai-dihi, and Liwai-to.
On Lower Cache Creek Barrett places Pulupulu, Churup, Kachituli, also Moso
(at Capay).
C. H. Merriam (1929) gives Kopā' (Kope) (in the broad fiat part of Capay
Valley near Brooks), and Kroeber (1932) Hacha (3 miles below Capay). Kisi,
a village upstream on Cache Creek, may have been a tribal center.
Imil, a village apparently in a tribal territory (near Guinda), and Sūya,
a village
(half a mile north of Guinda), besides 16 inhabited sites
mentioned
by one informant.
Lops and Tebti (on or near Cache Creek), villages probably belonging to a
tribelet.
Sukui-sel, whose principal village was Sukui (2-3 miles above Sulphur
Creek).
Kuikui, a village was Sukui (2-3 miles above Sulphur Creek).
Kuikui, a village (on Cache Creek 2 miles below the mouth of Bartlett),
and
Opi, a village (on Cache Creek at the mouth of Bartlett), probably in
a tribelet.
Tebti-sel, including the villages of Tebti
(on Bartlett Creek at the mouth of Long
Valley Creek), and Helu'supet or Helu'sapet (downstream within 2
or 3 miles of Cache Creek).
Lol-sel, located at village of A'li-ma-ti'nbe
(some 5 miles up Long Valley
Creek).
Loll (either on Bartlett Creek 3 miles
from Tebti or in Indian Valley) was a
village in an unnamed tribelet.
Wor-pa'ntibe, one of whose villages was Wa'i-taluk
(in Morgan Valley south of
Cache Creek).
Tsuhel-mem or Chuhel-mem, a village on Indian Creek above Ladoga and
Kabal-mem
or Kabel-mem, a later village.
A tribelet called Edī' or Edī'la.
A tribelet with villages at Bahka(labe) (not far from the mouth of Indian
Creek).
Kula'(-la) (some miles up), and Dikikala'i (downstream from Bahka).
Yakut
(on Sand Creek), perhaps a tribelet by itself.
Wa'ikau-sel, with villages at Let(-labe) (near Cortina Creek).
Wa'ikau (on main Cortina Creek), and perhaps Kotu (13. or 2 miles upstream
from Wa'ikau).
A tribelet at Pone (on Grapevine Canyon
or Road, three or more miles north of
Sites).
Potba-sel, or a village called Potba(-labe),
(at a spring in a gulley half a dozen
