Yo Loy

Yo Loy recalls a Patwin village on the Sacramento River, whose name has also been recorded as Yoloi or Yodoi. The Patwin inhabited the country west of the river, from the Coast Range foothills south to the bays. River villages stood beside the Sacramento, where fishers caught salmon and sturgeon in weirs of wood and willow. Families gathered seeds from their own tracts, while women and children collected acorns from oak groves held by their communities.