Tammukan, California

Tammukan was a Cholovone Native American settlement east of the lower San Joaquin River in Contra Costa County, California, United States. [Webb 1910:684] [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=115:3:7454273214648280613::NO::P3_FID:1702156 Geographic Names Information Systems, retrieved March 12, 2008] ] It no longer exists and is now a lost city. Its exact location remains unknown.

The inhabitants the Cholovone are identifiable as probably Yokut, but possibly Miwok. [Kroeber 1910:370; Webb 1910:684] Stephen Powell says of their location in 1891: "a small strip of territory on the eastern bank of the San Joaquin is occupied by the Cholovone division of the Mariposan family, between the Tuolumne and the point where the San Joaquin turns to the west before entering Suisun Bay." [Powell 1891:90-91]

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*Kroeber, A.L 1910. "On the Evidences of Occupation of Certain Regions by the Miwok Tribes", University of California Press, Berkeley, Vol. 6 No. 3 p. 370 [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/miwok_occupation_1908.pdf]
*Powell, John Wesley Powell. "Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico", Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 90-91.
*Webb, Frederick 1910. "Tammukan", in "Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico", Government Printing Office, page 684. [http://books.google.com/books?id=euEeAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA684&vq=Tammukan&dq=Tammukan,+a+Cholovone&source=gbs_search_r&cad=0_2]