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

Names of Settlements Nevada and Placer Counties (1928) (3 pages)

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1 ible . Ok pa im pa kan * -Near Beckman Hill; location uncertain (I). Sel _e wa * -On a small creek between the South and the Middle Forks of the Yuba River, now the site of French Corral, Nevada County (I). : Kai em ps tan } -Where Rough and Ready is now, close to Squirrel Creek which ws-through Penn Valley. There was a good spring near the village, which was large and had an important kum (I). > Hum hum _im_kum = In Penn Valley (I). ' U_ku_koy u * In Penn Valley (I). al Ka pau i * ee In Penn Valley. Captain Tom was once head man there (I). ~ Py da_dom / -About five miles southwest of Penn Valley at what is now Union Ranch, Nevada County (J). = Wi_li_1li * -About four miles above where Brown's Valley, Yuba County, is . Pam pa_kan # -In Pleasant Valley (I). /. .* = (Ko _kok“char * -In Pleasant Valley, close to Pam pa kan (1). ( Cham _paka * -In Pleasant Valley (I). ( On Oo po ma * ~~ In Pleasant Valley. "It had a big roundhouse about 200 feet \ in diameter" (I). Dick Childs, my Nevada City informant, said that Pleasant \Valley-lies below Smartsville, towards Marysville, in Yuba County, but I am . unable to ascertain its exact location. Mom in ku * -= On a knoll above Dry Creek, about half a mile to the east of StanffeTd Hill, Yuba County. The head man was called Wu pus (J). Tu hu * -~ Situated at what is now Virginia Ranch on Dry Creek, a mile and a half south of Stanfield Hill. The head man was called Sam huk, that 1S, Captain Sam (J). Pol om yan * -On a knoll southwest of where Dry Creek forks with another smalT creek. It is called Tennessee House now. Wu pus was head man there, as well as in Mom in ku (J). Kal_o ma * ~~ The site of this village is on a knoll, now covered with live oak and brush, about 50 yards from the house in which Henry Thompson lives. My informant owned the kum, traces of which are still visible (J). Nak nak * -On Willow Creek, between Oak Valley and Camptonville in eastern Yuba County (1). Pan ko yo * -A large settlement between Challenge and Strawberry Valley in northeastern Yuba County (I). -40-