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!
B- California Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Badwisha. A
Mariposan tribe on Kaweah r., Cal., said to have lived near the Wikchamni.
Mentioned by Hoffman in 1886 as formerly on Kaweah r., but then at Tule agency.
Bamom (salt water). A former Maidu village at the site
of the present Shingle, Eldorado co., Cal. (R. B. D.)
Bankalachi (Yokuts name). A small
Shoshonean tribe on upper Deer cr., which drains into Tulare lake, s. Cal.
With the
Tubatulabal they form one of the four major linguistic divisions of the
family. Their own name is unknown. (A. L. K. )
Bantas. A village of the Cholovone E. of the San
Joaquin and N. of the Tuolumne r., Cal. Pinart, Cholovone MS., B. A. E., 1880.
Batawat. A division of the Wishosk formerly living
about the lower course of Mad r., x. w. Cal. In 1851 McKee said of them: "This
band has been permitted to live at their present rancheria only upon condition
that they confine them selves to the immediate neighborhood of the mouth of the
river, and not come into the town."
Bauka. A former
Maidu village on the right bank of Feather r., near Gridley, Butte CO., Cal.
(R. B. D.)
Bayu. A former Maidu village at Sandy gulch, Butte co.,
Cal. It was located by Powers on Feather r., and there may possibly have been a
second village of the same name at that place. (R. B. D.)
Bidamarek. An indefinite division of the
Pomo of California, the name being applied by the Porno of upper Clear lake
to the inhabitants of the region w. of them on Russian r., as distinguished from
the Danomarek, or hill people, of the same region. Gibbs, in 1851, mentioned the
Bedahmarek as living with the Shanelkaya in a valley apparently at the source of
the E. fork of Russian r.; and McKee, in the same year, gave the Medamarec, said
to number 150, as inhabiting with the Chanetkai the hills dividing the waters of
Clear lake from Eel (sic) r. (A. L. K.)
Bis. A
Chumashan village w. of Pueblo de las Canoas (San Buenaventura), Ventura
co., Cal., in 1542. Cabrillo (1542) in Smith, Col. Docs. Fla., 181, 1857.
Boalkea. A Pomo village, speaking the northern dialect,
in Scott valley, w. of up per Clear lake, Cal. Gibbs, in 1851, gave them, under
the name Moalkai, as one of the Clear lake groups, w. of the lake, with a
population of 45. (A. L. K.)
Bohnapobatin. (Bohnapo-batin, 'western many
houses'). The name applied by the Pomo living in the region of Clear lake, Cal.,
to those living along the upper course of Russian r. Gibbs (1851) in
Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 110, 1853.
Bokea. A former Pomo village situated in what is known as
Rancheria valley, on the headwaters of Navarro r. , Mendocino co., Cal. (A. L.
K. - S. A. B.)
Bokninuwad (in part from bok, 'to find'). A Yokuts
tribe formerly living on Deer cr., Tulare co., Cal. They ceded lands to the
United States by treaty of May 30, 1851, and went on a reservation on Kings r.
(A. L. K. )
Bolbone. A subdivision of the Cholovone, the
northernmost group of the Mariposan family, residing E. of San Joaquin r. and N.
of Tuolumne r., Cal. (A. L. K.)
Bolinas. A name formerly applied to the people living in
the region of Bolinas bay, s. of Pt Reyes, Marin co., Cal. Taylor (Cal.
Farmer, Mar. 30, 1860) gives Bollanos, an incorrect spelling of Bolinas, as
the name of a small division of the Olamentke (Moquelumnan stock) formerly "near
Bollenos bay, Tamales bay, Punto de los Reyes, and probably as far up as Bodega
bay." (S. A. B. )
Bruno's Village. A
former village in San Diego co., Cal., said
to be Luiseno, but possibly Diegueno or Agua
Caliente. Hayes quoted by Bancroft, Nat.
Races, i, 460, 1882.
Buesanet. Mentioned
in connection with Choinóc
(Choinok) as a rancheria N. of Kern r.,
Cal., in 1775-76. It evidently belonged to
the
Mariposan family and lay in the vicinity
of Visalia, Tulare co. See Garcés, Diary,
289, 1900.
Buldam. A former
Pomo village on the N. bank of Big r. and K.
of Mendocino, Mendocino co., Cal. (S. A. R.)
Bushamul. A
Nishinam village formerly existing in the
valley of Bear r., Cal.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
