Dapishul, California

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Dapishul is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California, one of a number of Pomo settlements catalogued by Stephen Powers.{{citation|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookamindians01hodgrich/page/276|title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 2|editor-first=Frederick Webb|editor-last=Hodge|series=Bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology|volume=30|page=277|year=1910|publisher=Washington, Govt. print. off }} It was located in Redwood Valley; its precise location was near Mariposa creek and the Russian River on the eastern bank above the flood plain.{{gnis|1724175}} In the language of the Pomo, "dapishul" means "high sun", referring a location that is cool and shaded by canyon walls, with the sun only visible when it is high in the sky.{{citation|title=The Ethno-geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians|first=Samuel Alfred|last=Barrett|publisher=University of California Press|series=University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology|volume=1|year=1908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144|page=144}}

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Category:Former settlements in Mendocino County, California

Category:Former populated places in California

Category:Pomo villages

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