CHAPTER XIX. 
THB GAL-LI-NO-ME-RO. 
In Russian River Valley, from Cloverdale down to the redwood 
belt and south to Santa Rosa Creek, and also in Dry Creek Valley, live the 
remnants of a tribe whom the Spaniards called the Gal-li-no-me’-ro nation 
The Gallinoméro proper occupy enly Dry Creek and Russian River, below 
Healdsburg, within the limits above named; while above Healdsburg, 
principally between Geyserville and Cloverdale, are the Mi-sal’-la Ma-giin’, 
or Mu-sal-la-kiin’, and the Kai-mé. This nation may be considered a 
branch of the great family of the Pomo, whose habitat is co-extensive with 
Russian River Valley, covers the lowlands on the northwest of Clear Lake, 
and includes all the habitable coast from Usal Creek down to Bodega. 
- What their vernacular name was neither the chief, Ventura, nor his 
Cardinal Woolsey, Andres, though both are quite intelligent, can now recol- 
lect if they ever knew. It is a good instance of that moral feebleness and 
abdication of the California Indians which accepts without question any 
name the pale-face bestows, and adopts it instead of their own. Their 
mountainous neighbors, the Ashochimi, have a rather more honorable reason 
for accepting from the Spaniards their name (Wappos), for it was given to 
them by the latter when smarting under the terrible whippings which they 
used to suffer at the hands of that valorous tribe. From the fetichism pre- 
vailing in Russian River Valley generally, I am inclined to think the Gal- 
linoméro were named after some species of birds, owls or hawks, to which 
they paid a kind of worship, as to devils who were to be feared and pro- 
pitiated. At any rate, the early Spaniards named one of their great chiefs 
Gallina (a cock), from whom the tribe derives its present title. 
As with most of the aborigines in that valley, their social and govern- 
meutal organization is patriarchal and the chiefship hereditary, though the 
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