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Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. Alfred L. Kroeber estimated the 1770 population of the Maidu (including the Konkow and Nisenan) as 9,000. [7] Sherburne F. Cook raised this figure slightly, to 9,500. [8] Kroeber reported the population of the Maidu in 1910 as 1,100.
Any Native Americans remaining in the area were to be shot. 461 Concow Maidu were forced to march under guard west out of the Sacramento Valley and through to the Coastal Range. Only 277 reached Round Valley reservation on September 18, 1863, as 150 were too ill and malnourished to finish the march, 32 died en route, and 2 escaped.
The Konkow language, also known as Northwest Maidu (also Concow-Maidu, or Koyoomkʼawi in the language itself) [2] is a part of the Maiduan language group. It is spoken in California . It is severely endangered, with three remaining elders who learned to speak it as a first language, one of whom is deaf. [ 1 ]
Historically, the tribe has spoken Konkow, a language related to the Maidu language, and as of 2010, has created digital learning materials from old recordings of Emma Cooper, made during the 1940s as a part of the war effort.
The Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California are a federally recognized Native American tribe based in northeastern California, south of Lassen Peak. They historically have spoken the Konkow language, also known as Northeastern Maidu. They are a federally recognized Maidu tribe headquartered in Oroville [2] in Butte County.
Maidu / ˈ m aɪ d uː /, [3] also Northeastern Maidu or Mountain Maidu, is an extinct Maiduan language of California, United States.It was spoken by the Maidu peoples who traditionally inhabit the mountains east and south of Lassen Peak in the American River and Feather River basins.
The Chico dialects are little known due to scanty documentation, so their precise genetic relationship to the other languages probably cannot be determined (Mithun 1999), and in any case may have been not a fourth Maiduan language, but widely divergent dialects of Konkow (Ultan 1967).
Location of Mooretown Rancheria. The Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians (Northwest Maidu: c’ici:) [1] of California is a federally recognized tribe of Concow and Maidu people in Butte County.