Monachi

The Monachi are the Mono people of the eastern Sierra Nevada and the Mono Basin, whose name was given to them by their Yokuts neighbours: monachie, 'fly people', after the brine-fly larvae gathered at Mono Lake, the staple of the Kucadikadi band. Numic-speaking foragers had entered the region by the 1300s.

The Eastern Mono, who called themselves Nuumu, lived along the Owens River, diverting streams into irrigation canals that watered their fields and allowed them to build up food reserves in larger communities under headmen; the Western Mono, the Nimi, kept to the Sierra foothills above the San Joaquin, hunting deer and gathering acorns. Both spoke Western Numic dialects of the Uto-Aztecan family.