on both sides of North Fork Eel River from Hull's Creek north to about a mile south of Red Mountain Creek Villages K'ishkonteelhdin (alder-valley-place); "alder flat" Naandoon'din (it is straight?-place) Seelhtcinninyeeh (rock-black?-face?-under) Sin'aanyeeh ? T'aantcintaanteelhdin (pepperwood-flat-place); "pepperwood flat" T'ohdinin'-kiiyaahaan (″grass/prairie-slope - band″, "prairie slope people"), band on both sides of North Fork Eel River from Hull's Creek southwest to border with North Fork Wailaki Villages Nee'lhghiindin (ground-greasy-place) T'antcaanchowdin ? T'ohchaahdin (grass/prairie-big-place) Aantcinyaashbinin' (pepperwood-small-its hillside) Seetcimmii' (stone-kind-in it) Laawaasoonk'ait ? Northern Bands (Kekawaka and allies, neither Wailaki nor Lassik; language like Wailaki, not Lassik) (both sides Eel River north of Boulder Creek on east side and Chamise Creek on west; north to Lassik border (around Kekawaka Creek)) Daa'lhsow-kaiyaah (″surface-blue - band″, "blue ground people"), band on western side Eel River north of Chamise Creek, to Lassik border? Possibly not Eel Wailaki or Lassik, but separate people Ilhkoodin-kaiyaah (″??? - band″) or Yoiyidee'-kaiyaah (″far north - band″); band on eastern side Eel River from Boulder Creek north to Lassik Border? Possibly neither Eel Wailaki or Lassik, but a separate people K'aa'snaikot-kaiyaah (″arrow-??-creek - band″) or Kekawaka band ("The people on the north side of Kekawaka creek and on the east side of Eel river were known to the Wailaki as kasnaikotkaiya, arrow creek people. North of them were the Lassik. These people joined with the whites in the extermination of the Wailaki. That they ever had any political bond with the Wailaki is improbable. They were related by marriage, however, with the iLkodANkaiya, to whose country they came for acorns and buckeyes when their own harvest was short." (Goddard, Hab.Wail.p. 108)) K'in'din-kaiyaah (″bow-place - band″, "bow people"), band on Jewett Creek (called by the Wailaki Dask'ekot - ″lung creek″) north to Lassik Border on Eel River Villages (no village names given) Seetaalhtciichow-kaiyaah (″pestle-red-AUG - band″, "pestle red large people"), band north of Daa'lhsow-kaiyaah, at or near Jewett rock, close to Harris, California Sinkyone (Sinkine) The Sinkyone, with about 70 villages, had the land along the Eel River and South Fork Eel River, and a portion of coastline from Spanish Flat south. Ethnobotany The Wailaki weave the roots and leaves of Carex into baskets and use the leaves to weave mats. Population Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. (See Population of Native California.) Alfred L. Kroeber (1925:883) proposed a 1770 population for the Nongatl, Sinkyone,