Abstract
Archaeological investigations verify that they arrived in northern California around 2000 BC, and in Yolo County about 1500 years ago. According to historians Larkey, Walters and the people who settled were called Patwin, derived from the Wintum word meaning people, and discovered by Stephen Powers, an ethnographer who studied the area in 1877. The agricultural wealth of the county of the 1860s gave political significance to the choice of county seat. In the early days, securing the county seat was an important issue for merchants, politicians and developers or promoters. The new Mexican immigrants to Yolo County and the Sacramento Valley faced discriminating practices against them. ‘Mexicans were thought to be inferior beings and inherently unassimilated, and were forced into a dual wage system. The social life in the Mexican community in and around Woodland evolved around family and cultural activities.
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