North of their tribal territory lived the Molala ("Kuikni maklaks"), in the northeast and east in the desert-like plains were various Northern Paiute bands ("Shá'ttumi", collective term for Northern Paiute, Bannock and Northern Shoshone) - among them the "Goyatöka Band" ("Crayfish Eaters"), direct south their Modoc kin ("Mo'dokni maklaks" - "Southern People, i.e. Tule Lake People") with whom they shared the Modoc Plateau, in the southwest were living Shasta peoples ("Sasti maklaks") and the Klamath River further downstream the Karuk and Yurok (both: "Skatchpalikni" - "People along the Scott River"), in the west and northwest were the Latgawa ("Upland Takelma") (according to Spier: "Walumskni" - "Enemy") and Takelma/Dagelma ("Lowland/River Takelma") (more likely both were called: "Wálamsknitumi, Wálamskni maklaks" - “Rogue River People”). Beyond the Cascade Range ("Yámakisham Yaina" - “mountains of the Northerners”) in the Rogue River Valley ("Wálamsh") lived the "Rogue "River" Athabascan ("Wálamsknitumi, Wálamskni maklaks" - “Rogue River People”) and further south along the Pit River ("Moatuashamkshini/Móatni Kóke" - "River of the Southern Dwellers") lived the Achomawi and Atsugewi (both called: "Móatuash maklaks" - "Southern Dweller", or "Southern People").