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Lolsel, California

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Lolsel (also, Lol-sel, Lold-la, and Loldlas) is a former Wintun settlement in Lake County, California.[1] It was located east of Clear Lake in Long Valley; its precise location is unknown.[1] The name Lol-sel means "tobacco people", for the residents of the area that was called Lold-la, "tobacco place". The Lolsel village numbered about one hundred people in the nineteenth century.[2]

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  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lolsel, California
  2. ^ Barrett, Samuel (1908). Frederick Ward Putnam (ed.). The Ethno-Geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaelogoy and Ethnology. Vol. 6. Berkeley: The University Press. p. 291.