United States Northern Sacramento Valley, California
Languages
English, formerly Wintu
Religion
Christianity, Native religion
Related ethnic groups
Wintun (Nomlaki and Patwin), Yokuts
Person
Wintʰu
People
Wintʰun
Language
Wintʰuh
Country
Wintʰu Pom
The Wintu (also Northern Wintun) are Native Americans who live in what is now Northern California.[2] 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 Penutian 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.
^"Wintun Indians". California Indians and Their Reservations: An Online Dictionary. San Diego State University Library. Archived from the original on July 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010. The Wintun Indian people have three divisions: the Wintu, Norel Muk (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern). Their traditional territories are located in the greater Sacramento Valley, with the Sacramento River a major feature of all the regions. Their lands vary from the Wintu mountain rivers in the north, through the Nomlaki plains, to the marshes, valleys, and hills of the Patwin. Their languages are of the Penutian family. Their diet came from the semiannual runs of king salmon up major rivers, to acorns and other vegetable foods, to game. In the early 1800s, there were approximately 12,000-15,000 members of the Wintun Tribe. Spanish settlers arrived in Wintun territory by 1808, and the Hudson Bay Company trappers arrived sometime before 1832. Tribal unity was destroyed by the taking of land and the destruction of traditional food and material-gathering areas. Due to the introduction of cattle, hogs, and sheep, the construction of dams, and the Copper processing plants in the 1880s and early 1900s, the Wintun suffered a heavy toll on their health and survival. Today there are over 2,500 people of Wintun descent. Many live on the Round Valley Reservation, and on the Colusa, Cortina, Grindstone Creek, Redding, and Rumsey rancherias.
^"Indigenous Historic Tribe". Wintu Tribe Of Northern California. Retrieved June 9, 2018.
that make up the Wintu speaking people. The Wintu (Northern Wintun), Nomlaki (Central Wintun), and Patwin (Southern Wintun). The Wintu language is part...
The Winnemem Wintu ("middle river people" or "middle water people") are a Native American band of the Wintu tribe originally located along the lower McCloud...
Wintu /wɪnˈtuː/ is a Wintu language which was spoken by the Wintu people of Northern California. It was the northernmost member of the Wintun family of...
The Nomlaki (also Noamlakee, Central Wintu, Nomelaki) are a Wintun people native to the area of the Sacramento Valley, extending westward to the Coast...
allegedly by the Wintu. The Americans tracked the Wintu to a part of Hayfork Creek south of the Hayfork Valley known as Bridge Gulch (in Wintu qookši čopči'...
The Patwin (also Patween and Southern Wintu) are a band of Wintun people in Northern California. The Patwin comprise the southern branch of the Wintun...
wintu is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America and North America. "Chrysobothris wintu Report"...
The Sacramento River massacre refers to the killing of many Wintu people on the banks of the Sacramento River on 5 April 1846 by an expedition band led...
The Wintu Shasta salamander (Hydromantes wintu) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to Shasta County in California....
traditional lands of the Winnemem Wintu, one of nine groups of the larger Wintu ethnicity of northern California. The Winnemem Wintu tribe is considered to be...
Pseudoseisuropsis cuelloi Claramunt & Rinderknecht, 2005 Pseudoseisuropsis wintu Stefanini et al., 2016 Noriega, Jorge I. (1991). "Un Nuevo Género de Furnariidae...
contained some elements of Wintu and Achomawi. Members of the Penutian-speaking family of languages, especially the Wintu, arrived in central Northern...
CILC Patwin ethnographic and linguistic bibliography Patwin language bibliography Map showing Patwin dialect groups OLAC Patwin resources, on Wintu page...
mood can be found in the Wintu language, an extinct Native American language once spoken in California. An example of a Wintu sentence demonstrating this...
several related Native American peoples of Northern California, including the Wintu (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern). Their range is from...
39 sacred Winnemem Wintu Tribe sites that are located along the McCloud River. The river system is closely tied to the Winnemem Wintu Tribe's culture as...
alveolar trill. Thus, the narrower transcription ⟨ɽr⟩ is also appropriate. Wintu and Lardil are other languages with a reported (apico-)retroflex trill where...
LaPena, also known as Frank LaPeña and by his Wintu name Tauhindauli (1937 – 2019), was a Nomtipom-Wintu American Indian painter, printmaker, ethnographer...
California Washoe, northeastern California Whilkut, northwestern California Wintu, northwestern California Wiyot, northwestern California Yana, northern-central...
disputes and raids occurred with the Wintu, they were apparently not as destructive as warfare with the Modoc. Attacks on Wintu and Modoc villages included torching...
Native communities specifically, in the villages of Yana, Konkow, Nisenan, Wintu, Nomlaki, Patwin, Yuki, and Maidu. Scalping also occurred during the Sand...
evidence that Ishi's facial features and height were more typical of the Wintu and Maidu. He theorized that under pressure of diminishing populations,...
Malinda Maynor (Yumbee). It features three tribal nations, Hopi, the Winnemem Wintu, and the Lakota Sioux, and their struggles to protect three sacred sites...
Global Information
United States Northern Sacramento Valley, California