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	Wintu - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Wintu lived primarily on the western side of the northern part of the Sacramento Valley, from the Sacramento River to the Coast Range.
		Trinity River Wintu) in the Upper Trinity valley; the Dawnom near the Bald Hills; the Norelmaq near Hayfork; and the Waymaq in the upper region of the McCloud River valley.
		Between 1830 and 1833, many Wintus were lost to malaria in an epidemic that killed off around 75% of the indigenous population of the upper and central Sacramento Valley.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wintu (636 words)

	Winnemem Wintu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Winnemem are one of nine bands of Wintu.
		The Winnemem Wintu spoke one of the Wintuan languages.
		The Winnemem Wintu are currently in a protracted fight with State of California and the federal Bureau of Reclamation over the proposed raising of the height of Shasta Dam to secure more water for California cities and agriculture; the Winnemem Wintu argue that the proposed higher lake level would flood many Winnemem Wintu sacred sites.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winnemem_Wintu (393 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2006 - Six Hundred Feet and Rising
		The Winnemem are fond of casting their minds back to the time before white contact, and the reasons are understandable.
		Winnemem have lived in Kerekmet's main house since 1941, when Florence Jones, their spiritual and tribal leader for 65 years, having been driven from the McCloud River by the reservoir, built it on land allotted to a fellow Winnemem by the federal government.
		The Winnemem are too poor to remodel it; many of Kerekmet's inhabitants are either ill, infirm, or too young to work, and Mark's pension and Social Security and Caleen's modest earnings from dog breeding pay most of their bills.
	www.nrdc.org /OnEarth/06sum/shasta1.asp (1516 words)

	Winnemem Wintu Tribe Joins Battle To Save The Delta, Daniel Bacher, The Fish Sniffer Online
		Caleen Sisk-Franco, tribal leader, and members of the Winnemem Wintu (McCloud River) Tribe recently danced in traditional regalia as part of a celebration unveiling a mural in San Francisco dedicated to the tribe's battle to stop the expansion of Shasta Dam and to protect cultural, historic and natural resources.
		Franco and Gary Hayward Slaughter Mulcahy, liaison for the Winnemem Wintu tribe, became very alarmed about the disclosure this year by state and federal scientists that Delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad and other forage species have reached their lowest levels ever in an apparent food chain collapse.
		The Winnemem Wintu Tribe's villages traditionally were concentrated on the McCloud River, but the tribe also had villages on the Pit River, Sacramento River and Squaw Creek.
	www.fishsniffer.com /dbachere/051224wintu.html (1067 words)

	Hanging on to heritage \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Winnemem Wintu tribal members Mark Miyoshi (left), spiritual leader Caleen Sisk-Franco and Mark Franco performed a smoke ceremony over the remains of four ancestors in preparation of reburial in Redding.
		The Wintu's ancestors lived along the McCloud River in Northern California, and the river is where the Wintu gather.
		The Winnemem Wintu say they always have been recognized by the government, and their lack of official status is because they were left off a list by mistake.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040523/news_1n23tribes.html (983 words)

	The Epoch Times \| The Flooding of Winnemem Wintu Tribe Sacred Sites
		The Winnemem Wintu Tribe, who lost their homeland under the Shasta Dam in 1945, would be directly affected if the dam is raised, flooding the last of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe's sacred sites on the McCloud River.
		The Winnemem Wintu Tribe recently brought tribal members to San Francisco to attend the unveiling of a mural called, "We sing to water." According to a tribal press release, the mural is a monument to the ongoing campaign against the proposed raise of Shasta Dam, and the struggles to protect cultural, historic and natural resources.
		The Winnemem Wintu is not a federally recognized tribe with no sovereign nation status, leaving it out of the Bureau investigation process, and after four years of meeting with Bureau officials, investigative documents issued by NEPA make no mention of the tribe and the potential losses they face.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-12-1/35256.html (515 words)

	Welcome to the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water EJCW Website
		The Winnemem Wintu lost 90 percent of their ancestral land when the Shasta Dam was originally built.
		The Winnemem are in a state of emergency right now with a number of their sacred sites in jeopardy – not only from flooding by the raising of the Shasta dam, but also by continued erosion of the Tribe’s rights to access their sacred sites.
		The Winnemem Wintu are not asking for special treatment, just to save lands always belonging to them, not to mention justice for over a hundred years of broken promises and injustices perpetrated on them.
	www.ejcw.org /our_work/Winnememwintu.htm (627 words)

	Act Now to Protect Tribe and Rare Species from Dam Expansion
		The Winnemem Wintu were accidentally left off the list of federally recognized tribes when it was reformulated in 1979.
		The Winnemem Wintu are a traditional, spiritual tribe and have absolutely no aspirations to a casino or any other form of gaming -- they believe that gaming in any form destroys the spirituality of native peoples.
		The Winnemem Wintu were accidentally left off the list of federally recognized tribes when it was reformulated by the U.S. Government in 1979.
	actionnetwork.org /BIODIVERSITY/alert-description.html?alert_id=2685814 (1765 words)

	Wintu share their Cottonwood valley
		What the Wintu spoke was (formerly classified as) a dialect of the Penutian language.
		Present Wintu status finds this people facing the same threat as countless other precarious cultural minorities, the threat of being swallowed up by the dominant culture.
		This scholarly study examines the Wintu, previously considered a household-based society, and shows them in fact involved in a myriad of networks of interaction, leading to intermarriage and which extended for many miles around the region.
	www.geocities.com /cott1388/wintun.html (2206 words)

	Tribe uses war dance against Calif. dam - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		Winnemem Wintu tribal member Gary Hayward Slaughter Mulcahy performs a war dance in front of Shasta Dam in Shasta Lake, Calif., on Sunday.
		Multimillion-dollar studies are underway over the possibility of raising it as little as 6½ feet and as much as 200 feet, and the Winnemem feel an imminent threat to their way of life.
		The Winnemem Wintu population has dwindled to 125 members due to a combination of disease, disputes and departures by members who have abandoned the culture.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5998754 (833 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		REDDING, Calif. -- The Winnemem Wintu call their village Kerekmet, and though the couple of dozen people who live there are as poor as the rundown collection of buildings and trailers suggests, they occupy hallowed ground.
		Every time the Winnemem or their attorneys talk to the Interior Department about restoring their tribal recognition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs answers with a letter saying the tribe's petition for tribal restoration is still pending.
		To the Winnemem, the process denies them the voice they are entitled to on a matter that could spell the death of their traditional ways.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=WINNEMEM-12-31-04 (1030 words)

	Rogue Valley Independent Media Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sisk-Franco said she is under no illusion that the Wintu could halt expansion of the dam.
		Wintu have only the status of any other group of citizens, rather than the clout of a sovereign people.
		Herger's solution of telling the Wintu to appeal to the BIA is similar to Jewish people in Nazi Germany asking Nazi eugenics scientists for help finding their ancestry and/or relations.
	rogueimc.org /en/2004/10/3320.shtml (1472 words)

	Winnemem Wintu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Winnemem are one of nine bands of Wintu and, until the flooding done by Shasta Dam, inhabited the area of the McCloud River.
		The Winnemem feel that it is by government error rather than termination that the BIA does not recognize them.
		The Winnemem people are currently locked up in a protracted, albeit one-sided battle, with the California government and the Bureau of Reclamation over the proposed raising of the height of the Shasta Dam to secure more water for distant California cities and agriculture, which would flood many of the Wintu's sacred sites.
	winnemem-wintu.mindbit.com (364 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Known as the Hu'p Chonas, the ritual of dancing and fasting on acorn water signals that the Winnemem are at war, though this is not a battle fought with traditional weaponry against a traditional adversary.
		The Winnemem are summoning their spiritual masters against a force that they know as "the concrete barrier," the 59-year-old Shasta Dam, one of California's biggest.
		During the dam's construction, the Winnemem exhumed the corpses of 183 members from a doomed graveyard and watched as their homes were knocked down.
	www.waterconserve.info /articles/reader.asp?linkid=34951 (1135 words)

	Winnemem Wintu
		Thank you for visiting the Official Home of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe.
		Today, there are but three: The traditional Winnemem, the Nor-El Muk Nation and the Toyon-Wintu Tribe.
		The Winnemem Wintu's fight to oppose the raising of Shasta Dam continues.
	www.winnememwintu.us (396 words)

	[env-trinity] Water For All Action Alert: Support Recognition of Winnemem Wintu Tribe
		In 1851 the Winnemem signed a treaty with the U.S. Government ceding all their lands in exchange for a 35 square mile reservation.
		Members of the Winnemem have been attending hearings on the proposed dam expansion in recent months, but they are at a disadvantage because the tribe is not formally recognized under federal law.
		However, the Winnemem rider to the technical correction bill, slated to be submitted to the Senate the week of September 20, was pulled.
	www2.dcn.org /pipermail/env-trinity/2004/000253.html (1187 words)

	[No title]
		The Alliance is a diverse group of environmental organizations, tribal rights groups, and environmental justice organizations who have joined efforts to: Stop the raising of the Shasta Dam Support federal recognition of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe We use media campaigns, legal strategies, federal and state advocacy to achieve our goals.
		The Winnemem Wintu have already suffered because of the Shasta Dam.
		Because the Winnemem Wintu are not federally recognized, the US government ignores the impacts the dam raise will have on the Tribe.
	www.ienearth.org /winnemem_wintu_alliance.doc (447 words)

	[env-trinity] Winnemem Wintu: Delta Dying - Warriors Dance Nov. 26, 1 p.m
		A dying estuary could mean extinction." On Saturday, November 26 the Winnemem Wintu tribe will be in San Francisco to unveil a Mission District mural that honors the campaign against the proposed raise of Shasta Dam, and their struggles to protect cultural, historic and natural resources.
		According to lead muralist Claude Moller, “the mural was a cooperative project between San Francisco artists fighting gentrification and the Winnemem Wintu tribe who are fighting displacement from their homeland.” Entitled “We sing to Water,” the mural will be on display through March 2006.
		Caleen Sisk-Franco, tribal leader and, War dancers from the Winnemem Wintu will dance in traditional regalia to “sing to the water” and “give the salmon a voice.” This ceremony will be a dedication to the mural and a memorial to Florence Jones, the Winnemem Wintu’s Spiritual and Tribal Leader who passed away Nov 22, 2003.
	www2.dcn.org /pipermail/env-trinity/2005/000709.html (904 words)

	102 Wintu
		The Wintu were a hunter/gatherer language family and comprising several differing cultures.
		The northern group were known as Wintu proper in the north, the Nomlaki in their central territories, and the southern were known as Patwin.
		The Wintu suffered huge population losses from the genocide of the Mexicans and the gold rush settlers and miners as well as from disease.
	www.drlamay.com /backup/102_wintu.htm (273 words)

	Circle of Life: In The News
		The stories of the injustices the Winnemem have suffered, and continue to deal with at the behest of the United States government is tragic and appalling.
		In 1851 the Winnemem Wintu were forced to sign a treaty ceding all of their ancestral lands in exchange for a 25 square mile reservation.
		In 1985, the Winnemem are told, as individuals, they are not a federally recognized tribe and thereby have no claim to federal or BIA funding, no right to sovereignty and subsistence laws and no right to hold the government to any commitments to Native communities.
	www.circleoflife.org /blog/julia/000056.htm (879 words)

	The Winnemem Wintu: Waging War on Shasta Dam
		They are a small, traditional band of the once-mighty Wintu language group that lived between the Oregon border and northern California.
		The last time the Winnemem invoked the War Dance was in 1887, when a fish hatchery on the McCloud River was the enemy and protecting the salmon and the Wintu way of life was the focus.
		The Winnemem answered back, with their characteristic good humor, “Gee, does that mean we can bring modern weapons?” Eventually, BuRec relented and permitted the fire, the spears and the traditional ceremony as the Winnemem wanted to do it.
	yeoldeconsciousnessshoppe.com /art182.html (1257 words)

	Shasta Dam/McCloud River
		In August of 2004, Caleen Sisk-Franco, leader of the Winnemem Wintu, was directed by tribal ancestors in the spirit world to begin preparations for a traditional war dance, which had not been conducted since 1887.
		The Winnemem were asked to cancel or postpone the war dance, so as not to attract negative attention or arouse the wrath of politicians who favor raising the dam.
		Urge her to transfer the legal title to the cemetery in Shasta Lake City, where 183 Winnemem bodies were reburied to make way for the rising waters of Shasta Lake, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to hold in trust for the Winnemem Wintu Tribe.
	www.sacredland.org /endangered_sites_pages/shasta_dam.html (2124 words)

	Funeral held for the Delta
		In late January, conservationists, anglers, and members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe gathered to pay respects to the Delta and its fish, which are dying in record numbers.
		The funeral was held as a response to the Department of Water Resources' plan to increase pumping capacity in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta by as much as 27%.
		Winnemem Wintu elder Caleen Sisk-Franco opened the ceremony with a prayer to bring peace, harmony and restoration to the Delta, followed by Friends of the River’s Conservation Director Steve Evans, who explained that DWR’s plan to pump more water is not only harmful but unnecessary.
	www.friendsoftheriver.org /Articles/2006_FuneralHeldForDelta.html (356 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Despite traditions and bloodlines, government says some tribes don't exist
		The Wintu have never gone through the process of applying for federal recognition because they claim it doesn't apply to them.
		The Winnemem Wintu say they have always been recognized by the government, and their lack of that status now is simply because they were left off a list by mistake.
		In a dim, wooden prayer house, smoke wafts from the top as the Winnemem Wintu fall silent, their leader speaking in a hush.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040522-0917-invisibletribe.html (1502 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Tribe dances to protest Shasta Dam expansion
		MICHAEL BURKE / AP A Winnemem Wintu tribal member performs a war dance at Shasta Lake, Calif., on Sunday night, as part of the tribe's protest of a potential Shasta Dam expansion.
		Multimillion-dollar studies are under way concerning the possibility of raising it as little as 6-1/2 feet and as much as 200 feet, and the Winnemem feel an imminent threat to their way of life.
		The Winnemem Wintu population has dwindled to 125 members because of a combination of disease, disputes and departures by members who have abandoned the culture.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002035804_wardance15.html (670 words)

	Santa Cruz Indymedia: Feinstein deaf 2 Wintu and Palestinian voices, hears only $$$$
		Her campaign funding from pro-Israel AIPAC and Central Valley agribusiness could be blinding her to the objections of the Palestinians and the Winnemem Wintu..
		Feinstein's blatant support of Israeli apartheid state and disregard for the lives of Palestinians who have lived in the occupied territories is mirrored by her lack of concern for the Wintu tribe of Northern CA.
		The Winnemem Wintu are risking losing another sacred site on the McCloud River to flooding by the raising of the already monolithic Shasta dam.
	santacruz.indymedia.org /newswire/display/12969/index.php (1880 words)

	Winnemem Wintu Tribe Clarification and Restoration Act
		To restore recognition to the Winnemem Wintu Indian Tribe of California.
		This Act may be cited as the `Winnemem Wintu Tribe Clarification and Restoration Act'.
		(4) Winnemem Wintu remains were removed to that cemetery from the traditional cemetery of the Tribe in the McCloud River valley that was flooded by the Shasta Reservoir;
	www.theorator.com /bills108/s2879.html (826 words)

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