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