Definition of Patwin

1. Noun. A member of the North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California.

Generic synonyms: Penutian

2. Noun. A Copehan language spoken by the Patwin.
Generic synonyms: Copehan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patwin

Patriot's Day
Patriot missile
Patroclus
Patrylo
Patsy
Patterson
Patterson's Curse
Patti
Pattinson
Pattison
Patty
Patuakhali District
Patwin (current term)
Patzcuaro
Paul
Paul's reaction
Paul's test
Paul-Bunnell test
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Paul Allen's flower flies
Paul Allen's flower fly
Paul Bunyan
Paul Bustill Robeson
Paul Cezanne
Paul Dukas
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Gauguin

Literary usage of Patwin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912)
"ORIGIN OF CLEAR LAKE Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Cal.) BEFORE anything was created at all, Old Frog and Old Badger lived alone together. ..."

2. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Powers believed the Patwin were once very numerous. ... In war the Patwin used bows and arrows and flint-pointed spears; no scalps were taken, ..."

3. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"NA Ethnol., m, 1877) into 2 branches, the Patwin and the ... Following is a list of their villages: Patwin subfamily: ..."

4. The Ethno-geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians by Samuel Alfred Barrett (1908)
"His line of division between the Wintun and Patwin, extending across the territory at Grindstone creek, is only about eighteen miles north of the ..."

5. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 4/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"... the other being the Patwin. The Wintun territory was bounded on the N. by Mt Shasta ... with that of the Patwin division, vocabularies showing about a ..."

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