WAPPO

The 'Wappo' are a group of Native Americans who traditionally lived in Northern California in the areas of Napa Valley, the south shore of Clear Lake, Alexander Valley, and Russian River in Northern California. When Mexicans arrived to colonize California, Wappo villages existed near the present-day towns of Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga. Those on the south shore of Clear Lake were completely absorbed and dispersed to the Spanish missions in California. The mission accounted for at least 550 Wappo baptisms (Cook, 1976:174).
The Wappo lived by hunting and gathering, and lived in small groups without centralized political authority, in homes built from branches, leaves and mud. Their woven baskets were so well-crafted that they could hold water.
The name Wappo is an Americanization of the Spanish term 'guapo', which means, among other things, 'brave'. They were known as brave for their stubborn resistance to Mexican domination, particularly their resistance to all military attempts from General Vallejo and his enlisted allies. In 1836 the warring parties signed a peace treaty.

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Population

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External links

References

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) put the 1770 population of the Wappo at 1,000. Sherburne F. Cook (1976:174) raised this estimate to 1,650.
By the early 1850s, the surviving Wappo were reported to number between 188 and 800 (Cook 1976:239, 351, 357). However population dropped by 1880 to 50, and the 1910 Census returned only 73.(Cook 1976:239, 351).

See also

★ Wappo language

★ Wappo traditional narratives

External links

★ http://www.greenbelt.org/getinvolved/wondersandwanders/sthelena/

★ http://waynesville.k12.mo.us/Schools/LEAPworld/N%20A%20Technology/Projects/Wappo/WappoIndians.html

★ http://www.fourdir.com/Wappo.htm

References

★ Cook, Sherburne F. ''The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization''. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976. ISBN 0-520-03143-1.

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