Part 43 (1/2)

The _Betumkes_ live on the South Fork of Eel River. _Gibbs_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. iii., p. 634. In the northern part of Mendocino County. _MS. Map._

The _Choweshaks_ live on the head of Eel river. _Gibbs_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. iii., p. 421. Tribes living on the Middle Fork of Eel River, in the valley called by the Indians Betumki were the Naboh Choweshak, Chawteuh Bakowa, and Samunda. _Id._, p. 116. The Choweshaks lived on the head of Eel River. _Ludewig's Ab. Lang._, p. 48.

'The _Loloncooks_ live on Bull Creek and the lower South Fork of Eel River, owning the territory between those streams and the Pacific.'

_Powers' Pomo, MS._

The _Batemdakaiees_ live in the valley of that name on the head of Eel River. _Ludewig's Ab. Lang._, p. 17.

[Sidenote: RUSSIAN RIVER AND COAST TRIBES.]

The _Pomos_ consist of 'a great number of tribes or little bands, sometimes one in a valley, sometimes three or four, cl.u.s.tered in the region where the headwaters of Eel and Russian rivers interlace, along the estuaries of the coast and around Clear Lake. Really, the Indians all along Russian river to its mouth are branches of this great family, but below Calpello they no longer call themselves Pomos.... The broadest and most obvious division of this large family is, into Eel river Pomos and Russian river Pomos.' _Powers_, in _Overland Monthly_, vol. ix., pp.

498-9.

The Castel Pomos 'live between the forks of the river extending as far south as Big Chamise and Blue Rock.' _Id._, p. 499.

The Ki-Pomos 'dwell on the extreme headwaters of South Fork, ranging eastward to Eel River, westward to the ocean and northward to the Castel Pomos.' _Ib._, _MS. Map_.

'The Cahto Pomos (Lake people) were so called from a little lake which formerly existed in the valley now called by their name.' _Powers_, in _Overland Monthly_, vol. ix., p. 500.

The Choam Chadela Pomos (Pitch Pine People) live in Redwood Valley.

_Id._, p. 504.

The Matomey Ki Pomos (Wooded Valley People) live about Little Lake.

_Ib._

The Camalel Pomos (Coast People) or Usals live on Usal Creek. _Ib._

The Shebalne Pomos (Neighbor People) live in Sherwood Valley. _Ib._

The Pome Pomos (Earth People) live in Potter Valley. Besides the Pome Pomos there are two or three other little rancherias in Potter Valley, each with a different name; and the whole body of them are called Ballo Ki Pomos (Oat Valley People). _Id._

The Camalel Pomos, Yonsal Pomos, and Bayma Pomos live on Ten Mile, and the country just north of it, in Mendocino County. _Tobin_, in _Ind.

Aff. Rept._, 1857, p. 405.

'The Salan Pomas are a tribe of Indians inhabiting a valley called Potter's Valley.' _Ford_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1856, p. 257.

The _Niahbella Pomos_ live in the north-west of Mendocino County. _MS.

Map._

The _Ukiahs_ live on Russian River in the vicinity of Parker's Ranch.

_Gibbs_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. iii., p. 112, 421. 'The Yuka tribe are those mostly within and immediately adjoining the mountains.'

_Mendocino Herald_, _March, 1871_. The Yukai live on Russian River.

_Ludewig's Ab. Lang._, p. 285. The Ukias are in the south-eastern part of Mendocino County. _MS. Map._

The _Soteomellos_ or Sotomieyos 'lived in Russian River valley.' _Cal.

Farmer_, _March 30, 1860_.

The _Shumeias_ 'lived on the extreme upper waters of Eel River, opposite Potter Valley.' _Powers' Pomo, MS._