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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 ]
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 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.
Konkow was reported to have 3 elderly speakers in 2007. ... International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1997 ... The languages of Native ...
Mechoopda sweat house. The Mechoopda are a tribe of Maidu people, an Indigenous people of California.They are enrolled in the Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria, a federally recognized tribe.
In 1839 John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant of German origin, settled in Alta California and began building a fortified settlement on a land grant of 48,827 acres (197.60 km 2) at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers. He had been given the land by the Mexican government, supposedly under the stipulation that it would help to keep ...
The name Nisenan derives from the ablative plural pronoun nisena·n,. [6]The Nisenan have been called the Southern Maidu and Valley Maidu. While the term Maidu is still used widely, Maidu is an over-simplification of a very complex division of smaller groups or bands of Native Americans.