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Title: Deeper Than Gold (pp52-53)(2005) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection Author: Brian Bibby Published: 2005 # of Pages: 4 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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TCICT WO UUW 2D PURE PEt tek oy Crt ae Epp meee we pees ~~ === ~o more than one name, and names may have changed frequently. A settlement might be known by the name of its headman, and then the name could change when he died or was succeeded by another. Some settlements were temporary in nature, camps rather than permanentvillages, and their names may not have been as permanentas those we assign to American or European towns seem to be—as a look at a world map from the early 1960s shows, it is not unusual for cities and even entire nations to change their names. Besides Coloma, several other nineteenth-century American towns were built very near, or directly over, former Nisenan settlements. For example, the community of Camino appears to cover much of the former village of Saskiyan. There had been a large roundhouse there, and Captain Tom was said to have been its last headman. As late as 1928, the town of Camino was still called Saskiyan by Nisenan living in the vicinity.3" West of Highway 49 and near Highway 50, the site of Bamom (“salt water”) is now occupied by the town of Shingle Springs. It was said to have been a very large village with a big ceremonial roundhouse. Heading south, Highway 49 winds its way to Diamond Springs. This area was known to the Nisenan as Moloko Pakan (condor spring). Near El Dorado, close to Slate Creek, was Onachoma (eat hair), and at Toll House was Chayit Pakan (blue jay spring).3? Koi'umol, northeast of Placerville , zes near Placerville: PBVope’ near head of White Rock Canyon Bubuhu, near Oak Grove on South Canyon Creek Moluilui, south of Smith Flat near Webber Creek Tu do te’ near Moluilui. A man named Hudok owned the roundhouse here Matin Pakan, “oak spring,” near a white settlement also called Oak Springs Angtaim’o, “elderberry rock”, a small camp near Brewsterville Hoitemmelop, settlement near Cedar Ravine Oko Pakan, small camp across the south fork of American River Tapashu, fifteen miles east of Placerville, across the south fork of the American River Chehu’huhe, near Six Mile House Koimo hi’em, “rattlesnake brush,” a summer camp Wuhuluk, at Texas Hill, north of Webber Creek Yohimu, small village near Shingle Springs Tulul, small village near Shingle Springs Omlukai, large village above Squaw Hollow Creek Kutumpa, on Slate Creek Chitok Pakan, “poison oak spring,” five miles south of Shingle Springs yynowA. g 07 A}!