The town of Tecopa ( from the Pauite word Tecopet which means "wildcat" ), was named after Chief Tecopa ( Teca-Avats ), who became most famous as the peacekeeper of the "Ni-Wi" Pauites. Chief Tecopa was alive prior to the Anglo-Saxon migration into the Southern Basin region, and lived until between 1904-1906 ( there are conflicting dates in historic accounts ). He watched the arrival of the white man, and witnessed them take his peoples' lands as their own.
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