List of Ohlone Villages - Santa Clara Valley

Santa Clara Valley

Languages spoken: Tamyen, Chochenyo on eastern fringes

Tamyen language region (also spelled Tamien, Thamien) - tentatively Santa Clara Valley along Guadalupe River and west through Cupertino.

Tribes and Villages:

1. Alson - low marshlands at southern end of San Francisco Bay, present-Day Newark, Milpitas and Alviso
2. Aulintac (also spelled Auxentac) - along Coyote Creek
3. Asirin - Coast Ranges east of Santa Clara Valley
4. Aulintac (also spelled Auxentac) - along Coyote Creek
5. Churistac - cover term for cluster of villages in the mountains east of Morgan Hill
6. Matalan - Santa Clara Valley from Coyote to Morgan Hill
7. Pala (also known as Palenos) - mountains of Hall's Valley between Santa Clara Valley and Mount Hamilton
8. Ritocsi - Santa Clara Valley at Upper Guadalupe River and central Coyote Creek
9. San Bernardino Group - Santa Clara Valley unknown location. See Partacsi.
   • Lamaytu (tribe) - Santa Clara Valley
   • Muyson (tribe) - Santa Clara Valley
   • Pornen (tribe) - Santa Clara Valley
   • Solchequis (tribe) - Santa Clara Valley
10. So-co-is-u-ka (village) - The original site of the Mission Santa Clara (Mission Santa Clara de Thamien) on the Guadalupe River, 1777.
11. "Santa Ysabel" - eastern Santa Clara Valley and Upper Calaveras Creek
12. Somontac (also called Santa Clara) - tentatively Los Gatos region of Santa Clara Valley, and/or a village of the Matalan
13. Thamien (village or locality) - The original site of the Mission Santa Clara (Mission Santa Clara de Thamien) on the Guadalupe River, 1777.
14. Tayssen - large area of eastern Coast Ranges east and southeast of Santa Clara Valley

In vicinity:

1. Junas - probably in Hospital Creek drainage or San Antonio Valley of Diablo Range
2. Werwersen - vicinity of Mt. Hamilton, Diablo Range

*See also: Chitactac, Partacsi, possibly in this valley.