Editing Colusa County, California (section)

=== Early history ===
Present-day Colusa County was originally home to the Patwin band of the [[Wintun]] people,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=California Indian Languages|url=https://archive.org/details/californiaindian00goll|url-access=limited|last=Golla|first=Victor|publisher=University of California Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0520266674|location=Berkeley|pages=[https://archive.org/details/californiaindian00goll/page/n156 143]}}</ref> whose territory included areas along the Sacramento River as well as lands extending west towards [[Lake County, California|Lake County]], bounded in the north by the sources of [[Stony Creek (Sacramento River tributary)|Stony Creek]] near [[Stonyford, California|Stonyford]] and in the south by [[Putah Creek]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The population of the California Indians, 1769-1970|last=Cook|first=Sherburne Friend|publisher=University of California Press|year=1976|location=Berkeley|pages=13}}</ref>

Linguistically, the Patwin people in the Colusa area spoke two dialects of the Southern Wintuan language. River Patwin was spoken in villages along the Sacramento River, including at Korusi, site of the present city of Colusa. Hill Patwin was spoken in the plains and foothills to the west.<ref name=":1" />