Athapascan Indians; Indians of North America -- California
Main Eel R.: tah-ke´-kwit
Blue Rock: seng-chah´-tung
Bell Springs: s[)e]^{ch}-pis
Round V.: kun-tel-ch[=o]-pe
Jackson V.: kus´-cho-che´-pe; kas-tos´ cheek´-be
Branscomb Mt.: k[=i]k; ch[=i]s´-naw
VILLAGES
The villages of this group are mostly taken from Barrett (1908, pp.
280-283) indicated below by (B). Those taken from Merriam's notes are
distinguished by (M). The information given with each of the villages is
sometimes a direct quotation but most often is paraphrased.
1. netce'l[=i]gût (B). At a point about 9 mi. nearly due W of
the town of Laytonville and about 3 mi. SE of the confluence of the
E fork of the South Fork of Eel R. with the South Fork of Eel R.
This village is on top of the ridge separating these two streams
and is on the property of Mr. Jacob Lamb.
2. yictciLti'ñkût, "wolf something-lying-down creek" (B). On
the S bank of Ten Mile Cr. at a point about 5 mi. WNW of the town
of Laytonville.
3. sentca'[=u]kût, "rock big creek"; or kave'mato (Northern
Pomo dialect name), "rock big" (B). On Big Rock Cr. at a point
about 1-1/2 mi. from its confluence with Ten Mile Cr., or about
5-1/2 mi. nearly due W of the town of Laytonville.
sen-chow´-ten (M). Kato name for their village at Big Rock,
about 4 mi. N of their present rancheria in Long V.
4. ka'ibi, "nuts in" (B). On the NE bank of Ten Mile Cr. at a
point about 3 mi. downstream from the town of Laytonville.
5. neb[=o]'c[=e]gût, "ground hump on-top" (B). On what is
known as the Wilson ranch at a point about 1 mi. W of Laytonville.
6. seLgaitceli'nda, "rock white run-out" (B). About 300 yds. E
of the house on what is known as the "old" John Reed ranch about 1
mi. N of Laytonville.
7. bûntcn[=o]ndi'lyi, "fly settle-upon under" (B). Just NW of
Laytonville and but a short distance from the place now occupied by
the Indians near Laytonville.
8. ko'cbi, "blackberry there" (B). About 1-1/2 mi. WSW of
Laytonville and on the SW bank of the Ten Mile Cr.
9. tc[=i]b[=e]'takût, "fir tips creek" (B). About a mile SW of
the town of Laytonville and about 1/2 mi. up the creek which drains
Cahto V. from its confluence with Ten Mile Cr.
che-pa-tah-kut (M). A former village in the northern part of
Long V. on the James White place.
10. dist[=e]gû'ts[=i][=u], "madrona crooked under" (B). On the
western side of Long V. at a point about 2 mi. SSE of Laytonville.
11. t[=o]dji'Lbi, "water? ... in" (B). At the site now
occupied by the Indians at Cahto. This site is on the W bank of the
small creek running from Cahto into Ten Mile Cr.
12. bûntcten[=o]ndi'lkût, "fly low settle-upon creek" (B). On
the N bank of the northern branch of the head of the South Fork of
the Eel R. at a point about a mile SSW of Cahto.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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