Tawalimni

The Tawalimnu were a Yokuts people associated with the Tuolumne River in California's Central Valley. The river flows from the Sierra Nevada to join the San Joaquin, passing from mountain canyons into the broad plain. Yokuts communities lived along its lower course, while Miwok people occupied the foothills and traveled into the upper valley in summer. In 1806 the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga recorded the river's name; one possible explanation connects it with an Indigenous village called Tualamne or Tautamne.