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The Maidu are a Native American people of northern California. They reside in the central Sierra Nevada , in the watershed area of the Feather and American Rivers and in Humbug Valley. In Maiduan languages , maidu means "person".
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.
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.
This land contained a boarding school for Maidu and other Californian tribes from 1890 until 1920 when it was burned down. This land eventually adopted rancheria status and was held in trust by the federal government for the Maidu tribe. In 1958 the tribe lost federal recognition and the land lost rancheria status due to the California ...
The Maidu Museum & Historic Site is an interpretive center [1] museum dedicated to public education about the Maidu peoples of what is now California, United States.. The museum sits at an ancient site where Nisenan Maidu families lived for 3,000 years.
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. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Concow, or Konkow, people are the northwestern or foothill branch of the Maidu people, who traditionally spoke the Concow language [ 4 ]
For centuries, the Maidu cultural hub of Kótasi, meaning "on the snowline," thrived in the area that is now Greenville, said Trina Cunningham, executive director of the Maidu Summit Consortium, a ...
Members of the Round Valley Indian Tribe retrace the 1863 route of the Nome Cult walk, a forced relocation of Indians from Chico to Covelo.” – U.S. Forest Service [ 1 ] The Nome Cult Trail also known as the Concow (or Koncow) Trail of Tears refers to the state-sanctioned forced removal of the Northern Californian Concow Maidu people during ...