Places: CA-Potwisha

Potwisha-2,155' (Giant Forest)
(36.5174455, -118.7998207)

Description:
Name proposed by Colonel George W. Stewart for old Indian campground at junction of Marble Fork and Middle Fork of Kaweah River. The name of a branch of the Yokut Indians.

“The Potwisha Indians lived along the river above the Wiktsumnes. They were the highest people on the river, and in the summer-time went high into the mountains. They are all dead now. . . . The name of the tribe, or sub-tribe, in question has been called Padwisha, Padwoosha, Badosha, Palwiska, Patwisha, and Potwisha. . . . I believe the correct pronunciation of this tribal name to be Potwisha, or Patwisha, with the sound of the first a as in park or palm. . . . The headquarters of this tribe were near Three Rivers in the winter months. In the summer the headquarters were at Hospital Rock, above the junction of the streams mentioned, where there was also a rancheria.” (Letter from G. W. Stewart, March 29, 1926.)
Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar 

From GNIS: 

• In Sequoia National Park, at the junction of Kaweah River and Middle Fork Kaweah River. 
• Bureau American Ethnology Handbook, 1907. Nane out of place here,as headquarters of tribe was 7   or 8   miles below at Three Rivers, although this place was within their territory. Test. Dr. G. Hart Merriam. 
• Also called:
• Badwish'a
• Padwisha
• Patwisha
• Camp One-Browning, Peter. Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press, 1986
• Potwisha Camp-Browning, Peter. Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press, 1986

Trips:

• April 7, 2021 - Hike along the flume on the south side of the Kaweah-Gary and Betty
• April 13, 2022 - Sherri, Betty and Gary hiked a bit of the Potwisha Flume looking over the damage the KNP Complex Fire did to it.
  

References:

•  NPS info on campground
• Examiner article
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Pictures:

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