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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

On the Eviences of Occupation of Certain Regions by the Miwok Indians (12 pages)

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372 University of California Publications in Am. Arch. and Ethn. [Vol. 6 It is not quite so well established that the remainder of the plains region, from Calaveras river south, was Yokuts. But here too there is evidence only of Yokuts, not of Miwok occupation. First of all there are three short vocabularies obtained by Mr. Barrett. One of these is from an Indian called Wilson, at Merced Falls, given as the language of all the people that formerly lived below the edge of the foot-hills, in the open valley, as in the region of Snelling, and as far as Fresno. ilek, water okunk, drink osit, fire tuiku, shoot luiku, eat mokteo, old man This is not only good Yokuts, but a dialect very similar to Chauchila, as shown by the assimilation of the vowel of the imperative suffix -ka to the stem vowel. The second vocabulary is from Charley Dorsey, at Sonora, and was said to be of the language of Lathrop, a town situated not far from Stockton east of the San Joaquin. yet, one hapil, earth podoi, two ilik, water sopit, three silel, rock saat, eye uyits, wood teli, teeth katciu, coyote saba, mouth pulubhal, man hosip, north utubhai, chief hobotin, south utub, great dotu, east tooi, good latsu, west luika, eat tsupit, above ukudka, drink tuxil, below This is good Yokuts of the northern valley dialectic group, except that n and m have been throughout changed to d and b. This may have been an individual peculiarity. The verbal forms, like those in the preceding list, show the imperative suffix.