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	Maidu Culture
		Maidu names generally had a meaning, but this was often trivial, sometimes obscene, and usually of obscure reference.The name of a dead relative was generally bestowed on a child by the time it was 2 years old.
		Maidu dress was similarly scant in the summer heat of the valley and the snowy winter of the mountains.
		The Maidu are on the fringe of the tattooing tribes.
	www.maidu.com /maidu/maiduculture/culture.html (4487 words)

	Maidu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maidu were divided into three groups, the Nisenan or Southern Maidu, the Northeastern or Mountain Maidu, and the Northwestern Maidu, or Konkow.
		The Northeastern Maidu lived on the upper North and Middle forks of the Feather River.
		The Northwestern Maidu were below the high Sierra, in the South, Middle, North and West branches of the Feather River, on the Upper Butte and Chico Creeks, and in the Sacramento Valley along the lower course of those streams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maidu (260 words)

	Maidu - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Maidu
		The dead were burned in their brush houses with their belongings, and were commemorated on the anniversary of their death by burning baskets and exchanging shell money.
		Western contact was first made with the Maidu in the 1830s and it introduced diseases that devastated their communities.
		After 1848 the miners and settlers of the California gold rush took a large part of the Maidu's food resources, and starvation became rife.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Maidu (273 words)

	Maidu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Purifying acorn flour, a Maidu woman kneels before a sand-banked leaching pit and pours hot water on refined meal to leach it of its tannin, a bitter tasting substance that causes indigestion.
		Eventually Maidu Indians lived in 74 villages which stretched roughly from the Nevada state line, over the mountains, and down into the low Sacramento Valley foothills, in one place far enough west to include the Marysville Buttes.
		A southern branch of the Maidu, the Nishinam, mainly inhabited the Bear River Valley.
	thefirstamericans.homestead.com /Maidu.html (1787 words)

	AllRefer.com - Maidu (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		Maidu culture was typical of the California area: the people lived in brush shelters, gathered acorns, and practiced the spirit-impersonating Kuksu religion.
		Of the three divisions of the Maidu : valley, foothill, and mountain groups : the valley group, or Nisenan, were the most prosperous and culturally developed.
		In 1990 there were some 2,000 Maidu in the United States, most of them living on several reservations in California with other Native American groups.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Maidu.html (237 words)

	Maidu Stewardship Project: Restoring the Understory
		If Maidus want to influence the Forest Service with their belief in long-range management, they have to help the agency officials think in ways different from what they are accustomed to.
		Maidus have been tending the flowers, shrubs and trees growing in the forests of the Feather River watershed for centuries-ever since, they say, Worldmaker made the land safe for his people.
		Maidus would like to do it themselves to ensure that it fits with their traditional management goals, but government regulations require the Forest Service to open any contract work to competitive bids.
	www.fseee.org /forestmag/02SummerMaiduLittle.shtml (2363 words)

	Mountain Maidu History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Maidu language is part of the Penutian language family, and is closely related to the Konkow and Nisenan dialects.
		In summer, the Maidu people traveled about their territory in search of all the food and materials necessary to their way of life.
		The chief dependence of the Maidu was upon the acorn, particularly from the fl oak.
	www.greenvillerancheria.com /history.htm (1609 words)

	Maidu2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Maidu seldom hunted grizzly bears, but when they did, they valued the hide for the warmth it provided in winter.
		The Indians were afraid of shamans who practiced fl magic and who could, they believed, kill them if the shamans got hold of pieces of their hair or fingernail clippings or other parts of the body.
		The Maidu survived it all until the white man came to dig up the ground for the yellow metal or brought his hundreds of cattle to graze where deer browsed from time immemorial.
	thefirstamericans.homestead.com /Maidu2.html (1134 words)

	Stories: Maidu Stewardship Project
		In 1995, the Mountain Maidu formed the Maidu Cultural and Development Group, a non-profit corporation, to coordinate a variety of activities aimed at recognizing the role of the Maidu as land stewards.
		Maidu people are frustrated by the regular personnel turnover among their federal partners.
		The Maidu proposed using fire, a mainstay of their traditional management practices, to reduce the underbrush and maintain the mix of plant and animal species they value.
	www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org /stories/maidustewardship.html (1013 words)

	Maidu: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Maidu are a group of Native American[For more, click on this link]s who lived in Northern California California quick summary:
		In anthropology, the hunter-gatherer way of life is that led by all human societies before the neolithic era, and by an ever declining number of populations...
		Kroeber[Click link for more facts about this topic] estimated that there were 9,000 Maidu about the year 1770.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maidu.htm (385 words)

	Maidu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Maidu clothing reflected the temperate climate of this region.
		In 1844, most of the land to which the Maidu were native was given in a grant to a white settler who was a cattle rancher.
		In a treaty signed by the Maidu and federal officials, ancestral Maidu lands were signed over in exchange for the safety of a reservation.
	www.scsc.k12.ar.us /2002Outwest/NaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/Maidu.htm (426 words)

	Memory and Imagination -- Exhibitions -- Oakland Museum of California
		His first subjects were non-Indian, but soon his interest changed to Maidu themes, and his calling became communicating what he knew and felt about the ceremonies, stories and experiences of his people.
		The Maidu men and women in his paintings live in another age, carrying on lives of stability and harmony in and around the central roundhouse.
		A roundhouse is in flames, a hot spring gushes forth from a gash in the earth, children are helpless, a woman, bound to a tree, watches in horror as her man is dragged to his death by a white horse symbolizing white colonization.
	www.museumca.org /exhibit/exhi_memory_imagination.html (2703 words)

	Maidu Origin Stories
		Versions of the Maidu myth were collected by Roland B. Dixon and published in 1912, in Maidu, with a rough dictionary; these have recently been rendered in fine English translations by William Shipley.
		The Maidu creation story is quite specific in naming obvious features of the landscape in the region of the Feather River; it also establishes the reason for death, the traditions of ancestry, and the relationship of the doorway to the sun's path.
		Living just north of the Maidu, the Achumawi, in a story collected by C. Hart Merriam, conceived of two deities, Tikado Hedache and Annikadel, the former appearing to be a somewhat abstract deity principle and the latter serving the practical roles of creation and arrangement.
	www4.hmc.edu:8001 /humanities/western/maidu.htm (1046 words)

	Alliance of California Tribes - Member Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Maidu language belongs to the Penutian language family, which includes languages spoken by peoples from the northwest coast of Canada through the southwestern and southeast United States, as well as south to the Yucatan Peninsula.
		MAIDU - The traditional lands of the Maiduan peoples were in the north-central part of the state.
		The three closely related peoples usually called Maidu were the Maidu of Plumas and Lassen counties, the Konkow of Butte and Yuba counties, and the Nisenan of Yuba, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, and El Dorado counties.
	www.allianceofcatribes.org /greenville.htm (448 words)

	maidu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Maidu houses were round, semi-subterranean, and covered with earth.
		The Maidu held and annual mourning ceremony, the Keruk, for the recently deceased, which re-enacted the death of the creator, Kukumat.
		The Northwestern Maidu gave clam disc beads and other shell beads, salmon, salt and digger pine nuts to the Northeastern Maidu, and got bows and arrows, skins, sugar pine nuts, shell beads, deer hides and acorns.
	bss.sfsu.edu /calstudies/NativeWebPages/maidu.html (332 words)

	Lassen Regional Project
		The Maidu were to the south and the Paiute to the east.
		The central dwelling of a Maidu village complex was a large semi-subterranean earth-covered lodge provided with a central smoke hole and side entry.
		The Maidu's environment was colder in winter than most others of the Lassen region and they could count on a period of snow cover.
	www4.hmc.edu:8001 /humanities/indian/lassen/Lassen4.htm (1474 words)

	Keepers of a Lost Language
		She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come to the Mount Lassen foothills from Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
		Two years ago he acquired a roommate, a young Maidu of mixed blood with an uncanny ear for language, a sweet and openhearted view of the world, and a firm desire to return the Maidu language to his people.
		The question of how many fluent Maidu speakers remain is a touchy one, not least because many Maidu resent the notion that a white ethnolinguist may be the keeper of the linguistic flame.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2004/07/06_400.html (1238 words)

	Roseville Press-Tribune : Top Stories
		Maidu hosts everything from monthly senior dances, fitness and special interest classes, concerts, weddings, birthday and anniversary parties, memorial services, crab feeds, dog shows, Bar Mitzvahs, Quinceaneras, and "any possible event that you would want to have," Cameron said.
		The community center is housed at the Maidu Regional Park, residing on 152 acres of land that also houses a branch library, the Maidu Interpretive Center (see sidebar), a softball complex and sports courts.
		The magic of Maidu began when the city purchased 40 acres of property from the Bureau of Land Management for a community park in 1967, according to a progressive history about the park created by Roseville's parks and recreation department.
	www.thepresstribune.com /articles/2005/03/30/news/top_stories/01maidu.txt (880 words)

	Saving Maidu culture, one seedling at a time
		Gorbet, a Mountain Maidu Indian, gathered her children at the base of the rock, a Maidu cultural landmark.
		The Maidu Stewardship Project focuses on the understory of the forest, the oaks, shrubs and flowering plants that have traditionally provided the necessities of Maidu life.
		She also wants the government to return a piece of ground to the Mountain Maidu, a landless tribe whose existence is not officially recognized by the federal government.
	www.aeoe.org /membership/eeproviders/maidu_stewardship_project.html (646 words)

	Old Sierra Historical Ranch - Maidu Indians
		The Maidu people were not a large group and estimates give them not more than a few thousand among the various camps at the time that the first whites came among them.
		The Maidu people were of medium height and their heads and faces were broad with noses narrow and lips thin.
		The Maidu women also made beautiful baskets, which were used for various household duties.
	oldsierrahistoricalranch.com /maidu.htm (321 words)

	Worldmaker's Trail
		The Mountain Maidu located their winter villages on higher ground all around the edges of the valley, close to the water and fuel wood.
		The Maidu stored supplies of dried fish, fowl, and deer meat, as well as acorns, roots, and grass seeds to sustain them through winter or to use for trade.
		The Maidu in Indian Valley controlled the wind during late summer when the acorns were ripening.
	www.indianvalley.net /maidu.html (2840 words)

	Middle Mountain Foundation - A Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust - the Sutter Buttes - Maidu Indians
		The Indians that lived in and around the Sutter Buttes were the Southern Maidu or Nisenan.
		The Maidu, which simply means "the people," lived in the Sacramento Valley and surrounding foothills.
		Maidu, An Illustrative Sketch by Roland B. Dixon.
	www.middlemountain.org /body/buttes/maidu.html (866 words)

	Northern Maidu, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She says that there were no uprisings in Maidu country.
		The Maidu customarily left their boats at strategic points for navigating the many lakes and rivers.
		Potts says that although the Maidu are of medium height, they have produced many notable athletes, including Seymour Smith, a professional boxer, who ran from Medford to San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge.
	www.naturegraph.com /indian/in-gen/Northern.html (440 words)

	American Indian Treasures
		The American Indians who performed those ceremonies were part of the Maidu tribe whose territory once stretched eastward from the Sacramento River to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
		The land where the center now lies was important because of its year-round stream and wealth of oak trees, which produced acorns, a vital part of the Maidu’s food supply.
		The Maidu Spring Celebration heralds in spring with dance groups, storytelling, a native crafts sale, and demonstrations of such skills as basket weaving.
	www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/american_indian_treasures05.asp (349 words)

	Maidu Tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Many Maidu and other California tribes are listed on the school's rolls.
		The school survived until 1920, when the school was destroyed by fire and was not rebuilt.
		The school grounds were eventually converted to Rancheria status, and the land was help in trust by the federal government for the Maidu people.
	www.greenvillerancheria.com /maidu_tribe.htm (658 words)

	Maidu Food Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Maidu tribes inhabited this area up to about 1870.
		Each plant is labelled with the Maidu name and the English equivalent.
		Completion of the Maidu Food Walk gives everyone a sense of accomplishment and a knowledge of the importance of our natural areas.
	www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us /~bmentzel/maidu.html (153 words)

	maidu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Maiduan language was spoken by groups variously known as the Maidu, Konkow, and Nisenan.
		The usual settlement pattern among the Maidu was a cluster of three to five small villages around a more populous, centrally located village.
		Lands for hunting and fishing were held in common by the tribelet or village-community.
	www.californiahistory.net /2_natives/maidu.htm (124 words)

	ICT [2001/06/20] Maidu state parks volunteers protect artifacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Over time, like most American Indian tribes, the Maidu fell victim to European conquest and disease, leaving behind small remnant populations and mounds of artifacts as the physical reminders of the long occupancy of the Maidu.
		Many of these artifacts and many of the original centers of population were lost when the Feather River was dammed in 1967 by the Army Corp of Engineers to become Lake Oroville, bringing with it a strong Maidu mistrust of government.
		Local Maidu descendants watched hopelessly as the same river that once sustained their civilization deluged an entire section of their reservation.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=2321 (678 words)

	Maidu Texts Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Maidu lived in the central Sierra Nevada of California, to the north of Yosemite.
		The Maidu, who were not particularly numerous to begin with, were decimated by the incursion of Americans.
		The Maidu tales of Coyote are well known for being exceptionally transgressive; he is constantly seducing women by guile and deceit.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/ca/mdut (137 words)

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