Mechoopda

Mechoopda was a village community on Little Butte Creek in the northern Sacramento Valley. Its people spoke a language related to Maidu and lived in a country of oak stands, grassland and streams. They had a summer camp on Big Chico Creek as well as their permanent village. In Mechoopda tradition, the world began at Tadoiko, a place south of the village where Earth Maker and Turtle came ashore on a raft upon the newly created earth.