Wintu Indians

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Name (Latin)
Wintu Indians
See Also From tracing topical name
Indians of North America California
Wintun Indians
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q3513390
Library of congress: sh 89003678
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Wintu texts, 1989.
  • Murdock world cult.:p. 123 (Wintun group including Wintu, Nomlaki, and Patwin)
  • Sturtevant handbk. No. Am. Ind.:v. 8, California (Wintu; Wintun is the name of the language group including Wintu, Nomlaki, and Patwin)
  • Web. 3(Wintun or Wintu; equates the two terms)

Wikipedia description:

The Wintu (also Northern Wintun) are a Native American people from what is now Northern California. They are part of a loose association of peoples known collectively as the Wintun (or Wintuan). There are three major groups that make up the Wintu-speaking people: the Wintu (Northern Wintun), Nomlaki (Central Wintun), and Patwin (Southern Wintun). The Wintu language is part of the Wintuan language family. Historically, the Wintu lived primarily on the western side of the northern part of the Sacramento Valley, from the Sacramento River to the Coast Range. The range of the Northern Wintu also included the southern portions of the Upper Sacramento River (south of the Salt Creek drainage), the southern portion of the McCloud River, and the upper Trinity River. Today, many Northern Wintu still reside on or near their traditional homelands in Trinity and Shasta counties.

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