The Klamaths’ own name is E-ukshikni, “Klamath Lake people.”  The Modoc are termed by the Klamath Modokni, “Southern people.”

TRIBES.

  Klamath. 
  Modoc.

Population.—­There were 769 Klamath and Modoc on the Klamath Reservation in 1889.  Since then they have slightly decreased.

MARIPOSAN FAMILY.

  > Mariposa, Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., 84, 1856 (Coconoons
  language, Mariposa County).  Latham, Opuscula, 350, 1860.  Latham, El. 
  Comp.  Philology, 416, 1862 (Coconoons of Mercede River).

  = Yo’-kuts, Powers in Cont.  N.A.  Eth., III, 369, 1877.  Powell, ibid.,
  570 (vocabularies of Yo’-kuts, Wi’-chi-kik, Tin’-lin-neh, King’s
  River, Coconoons, Calaveras County).

  = Yocut, Gatschet in Mag.  Am.  Hist., 158, 1877 (mentions Taches,
  Chewenee, Watooga, Chookchancies, Coconoons and others).  Gatschet in
  Beach, Ind.  Misc., 432, 1877.

Derivation:  A Spanish word meaning “butterfly,” applied to a county in California and subsequently taken for the family name.

Latham mentions the remnants of three distinct bands of the Coconoon, each with its own language, in the north of Mariposa County.  These are classed together under the above name.  More recently the tribes speaking languages allied to the Cocon[-u]n have been treated of under the family name Yokut.  As, however, the stock was established by Latham on a sound basis, his name is here restored.

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.

The territory of the Mariposan family is quite irregular in outline.  On the north it is bounded by the Fresno River up to the point of its junction with the San Joaquin; thence by a line running to the northeast corner of the Salinan territory in San Benito County, California; on the west by a line running from San Benito to Mount Pinos.  From the middle of the western shore of Tulare Lake to the ridge at Mount Pinos on the south, the Mariposan area is merely a narrow strip in and along the foothills.  Occupying one-half of the western and all the southern shore of Tulare Lake, and bounded on the north by a line running from the southeast corner of Tulare Lake due east to the first great spur of the Sierra Nevada range is the territory of the intrusive Shoshoni.  On the east the secondary range of the Sierra Nevada forms the Mariposan boundary.

In addition to the above a small strip of territory on the eastern bank of the San Joaquin is occupied by the Cholovone division of the Mariposan family, between the Tuolumne and the point where the San Joaquin turns to the west before entering Suisun Bay.

TRIBES.