California Athabascan Groups

9. tadûttc[=i]' (G). On the E side of the Eel not far above t[=o][-l]tciñyasta', at the mouth of a large creek in which salmon run (tadak[=o]k, Thompson Cr.?). Above Camp Grant.

VIII. Goddard says that a tribelet named slakaiya or sEyadAñkaiya occupied the territory between Copper Mine Creek in the north and Willow Creek in the south. Merriam gives the...

Goddard lists other names, presumably for the Lassik villages, as follows: sekû[-l]ne, tectatalindûñ, dûltc[=i]kyacdûñ, t'o-todûñ, k'ûsnesdûñ, ne ga b[=i], kûttantc[=i]tc[=o]dûñ...

Hettenshaw Valley--ken-tes´-tung (M). This valley is in Lassik territory about 12 mi. N of the Wailaki boundary. It lies between the headwaters of the North Fork of the Eel and...

17. y[=i]nak[=i] (y[=i]natc[=i]) (G). On a flat, called Spanish Flat, 3/4 mi. long and 300 yds. wide between the ocean and the terrace. It has a creek at its southern end (Spani...

Their territory consisted of the whole valley of Redwood Creek and the adjacent mountains from a point on the creek 10 or 12 miles above its mouth to Chaparral Mountain at the h...

tub´-bel-chin´-tah ch[=a]-gel-k[=o]k. A small creek 10 mi. S of Dyerville, entering South Fork from the E just S of a bend in the river. [Evidently Bridge Cr.]

53. noo-l[)e]h´-m[)e]h (M). Fishing camp at falls about 1/2 mi. above Korbel picnic ground. Only one kind of salmon can get up these falls.

_Connections with other groups._--The foregoing account of economy, social organization, and religious practices does not by any means make up a complete picture of Athabascan l...

There are two words for good: Chung-whoom for a good or kind person; and Noo-wh[=o]m for a good thing or object. A bad person is To choong-k[=o]m, "not good person"; while a thi...

According to the information of Merriam and Goddard, the Wailaki may be divided into three groups--the Eel River Wailaki, the North Fork Wailaki, and the Pitch Wailaki. The east...

Cook has estimated that there is an average of 10 persons per house among the Hupa. This figure is arrived at by the following line of reasoning: according to a census taken in...

Thus, given either the area of a group or the fishing miles of a group habitat, we may estimate its population. From the diagram in figure 2 it appears that the estimates based...

In March, 1950, the University of California assumed custodianship of an extensive collection of original and secondary data referring to California Indian ethnology, made by Dr...

The second killing was at the rancheria of [=A]´-choo-lik on the big lagoon known as Lake Earl about three miles north of Crescent City [cf. Drucker's etculet in Drucker, 1937,...