Otaki, California

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Otaki (also, Otakey, O-ta-ki and O-ta-kum-ni) is a former Native American settlement of the Maidu people in Butte County, California. [1] It was located on the Big Chico Creek, roughly two miles north of its confluence with the Sacramento River. Its name comes from the Maidu name for the Big Chico Creek, Ótakim shéwi. [2]

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  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Otaki, California
  2. ↑ Heizer, Robert F.; Hester, Thomas R. (1970). "Names and locations of some ethnographic Patwin and Maidu Indian villages". In Heizer, Robert (ed.). Papers on California Ethnography. pp. 79–118. See p. 80.


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