Office of Indian Affairs

Record Group 75. Letters received Calif., 1854. Enclosure to document no. H 758. D. A. Enyart, Fresno Reservation, Nov. 3, 1854.

The Indians on the Fresno Farm include: 30 Chowchilla, 220 Choot-chances, 90 Pohonicha, and 100 Potohanchi.

The Indians in Mariposa, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties do not exceed a total of 2,000.

By river system he breaks them down thus: 300 on the Merced, 350 on the Tuolumne, 250 at Plant's Ferry on the Stanislaus, 100 elsewhere on the Stanislaus, and 100 scattering through the country.

Record Group 75. Letters received Calif., 1855. Enclosure to document no. H 1050. Report of D. A. Enyart, Fresno Reservation, Aug. 22, 1855.

"I find that there are at least about 1,000 to 1,500 Indians on the River (i.e., San Joaquin).... This does not include the 'Mono' tribe which is the most numerous of any tribe...."

Record Group 75. Letters received Calif., 1859. Enclosure to document no. M 66. M. B. Lewis, Fresno Agency, Aug. 30, 1859.

A report on the 22 tribes which recognize the Fresno Agency as their headquarters. Abstracted as follows:

Wel-leelch-um-nies:
the most northerly tribe; is "temporarily" on the Tuolumne River because of displacement by the whites.
85
Poto-en-cies:
have abandoned their native land, the Merced Valley and are now on the Chowchilla.
110
Noot-choos:
"a union of the remnant of other tribes," including some Yosemites. Now on the north fork of the Chowchilla.
85
Po-ho-nee-chees:
on the headwaters of the Fresno.
105
Chow-chillas:
have moved from the Chowchilla to the Fresno River.
85
Cooc-chances:
the largest "unbroken" tribe in the agency, originally on Coarse Gold Creek; some still there, some at agency.
240
How-ches:
once large; always have been on the Fresno.
18
Pit-cat-ches and Tal-linches:
(two distinct tribes); native habitat was the San Joaquin River; still near Fort Miller.
150
Coss-waz:
"to some extent identified with the Pit-cat-ches"; native land is Deer Creek.
88
Monos:
on Fine Gold Creek and the upper San Joaquin River.
535
War-to-kes, Itee-ches, and Cho-pes:
all on Kings River; "constitute one nation" but have separate heads (on Wartoke Creek).
290
Wat-ches:
since 1854 have been on Kings River Farm.
75
No-to-no-tos and We-melches.190
Tat-ches and Wo-wells:
these four tribes are native to the lower Kings River and Tulare Lake. They were recently driven to their homes on the Fresno Farm.
165
Cow-willas:
their home is the mouth of the Kaweah at the foothills.
110
Tel-em-nies:
on the Kaweah, near Visalia.
105
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Total2,436