Patwin

The Patwin (also Patween and Southern Wintu) are a band of Wintun people in Northern California. The Patwin comprise the southern branch of the Wintun group, native inhabitants of California since approximately 500.^[1]

Today, Patwin people are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes:^[2]

Archaeology[edit]

Patwin Indian remains were discovered at the Mondavi Center construction site beginning in 1999, and consequently, the University of California, Davis, built a Native American Contemplative Garden within the Arboretum, a project honoring the Patwin.^[8]^[9]^[10]

(1907–1994), basket weaver and healer

Mabel McKay

(c. 1798 – c. 1851), 19th-century leader and diplomat, also known as "Chief Solano"

Sem-Yeto

Fully feathered basket

Cook, Sherburne F. 1976a. The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Golla, Victor. 2011. California Indian Languages. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C.

Cook, Sherburne F. 1976b. The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Johnson, Patti J. 1978. "Patwin". In California, edited by Robert F. Heizer, pp. 350–360. Handbook of North American Indians, William C. Sturtevant, general editor, vol. 8. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Mithun, Marianne. 1999. The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge University Press. 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.

ISBN

(map after Kroeber), California Prehistory

"Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770"

Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of Berkeley

"Patwin Language"

For a map of regional Native American territories, see map of by Thayer and Mann.

Sacramento Valley Bioregion

History of Quail Ridge Reserve - The Patwin

(1874), Stephen Powers' Overland Monthly article on the Patwin

"The Patweèns"

on Sem-Yeto and the Patwin Indian presence in Suisun Valley, part of a 2003 documentary produced by the City of Fairfield