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!
Copehan Family. A linguistic stock
formerly occupying a large territory in California, from Suisun
and San Pablo bays on the south to Mt Shasta and the country of
the Shastan
family on the north. Starting from the north, the east boundary
ran a few miles east of McCloud river to its junction with the
Sacramento and thence to Redding, a large triangle east of
Sacramento river belonging to the Copehan; and from Redding down
the boundary was about 10 miles east of Sacramento river, but
south of Chico it was confined to the west bank. On the west the
summit of the Coast range formed the boundary, but from the
headwaters of Cottonwood creek northward it nearly reached the
south fork of the upper Trinity. The people of this family were
among the most interesting of the California Indians, with a
harmonious language and an interesting mythology. Their social
and political system was like that of all California tribes:
their largest unit was the village, more extensive combinations
being for temporary purposes only. The people comprising this
family have been divided by Powers (Cont. N. A.
Ethnol., iii, 1877) into 2 branches, the
Patwin and the
Wintun, differing
considerably in language and customs. Following is a list of
their villages:
