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Topic: Wintun


In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Alliance of California Tribes - Member Tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The term "Wintun" is used to refer to the language group of Wintu, Nomlaki, and Patwin belonging to the Penutian linguistic family.
Contemporary Wintun groups are challenged by environmental issues, tribal reorganization and recognition, and the continuance of traditional and religious activities.
Their traditional lands are located in the greater Sacramento Valley, with the Sacramento River a major feature of all the regions, from the Wintu mountain rivers in the north, through the Nomlaki plains, to the marshes, valleys, and hills of the Patwin.
www.allianceofcatribes.org /cortina.htm   (860 words)

  
 Wintu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wintu (also Northern Wintun) are Native Americans who lived in what is now Northern California.
They are part of a group of associated groups known collectively as Wintun (or Wintuan).
The Wintu lived primarily on the western side of the northern part of the Sacramento Valley, from the Sacramento River to the Coast Range.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wintu   (593 words)

  
 CaliforniaPrehistory.com -- The Prehistory of Pui'mak Wintun, Thomes Creek, Tehama County, California...
The territory of the Wintun was the west side of the Sacramento Valley from the river up to the crest of the Coast Range.
The Wintun were not a unified political unit such as the Plains Indian tribes.
The Wintun were fond of contests involving physical skills and prowess, such as races, football, hockey, and shinny.
www.californiaprehistory.com /reports02/rep0026.html   (2794 words)

  
 Alliance of California Tribes - Member Tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rumsey residents are affiliated with the Wintun Tribe, a band numbering about 12,000 in the early 1800s.
Culturally, the Wintun continue to practice aspects of their traditional culture even as they continue to succeed within mainstream society.
WINTUN (WINTU, YOCHA DEHE) - there are three divisions of the Wintun people: the Wintu, Nomlaki, and Patwin.
www.allianceofcatribes.org /rumsey.htm   (828 words)

  
 Existing Glaciers of Mount Shasta
The seven glaciers recognized by the USGS are Whitney Glacier, Bolam Glacier, Hotlum Glacier, Wintun Glacier, Watkins Glacier, Konwakiton Glacier, and Mud Creek Glacier.
Wintun Glacier is on the southeast side of Mount Shasta.
Wintun Glacier does not have a terminal moraine as mud flows from Ash Creek have formed, along with mud flows from Mud Creek, the 300 km2 Mud-Ash debris fan north of the McCloud River (Diller, 1895; Osterkamp, Hupp, and Blodgett, 1986).
www.siskiyous.edu /shasta/env/glacial/exi.htm   (2231 words)

  
 Three California Writers - Alfred Gillis
Possessing such a country as this it is no wonder the Wintuns were a proud and haughty people, ever boastful of their favored land and equally ready to defend it from those who would seize it from them.
Many were the endeavors made to wrest it from the Wintuns, sometimes by a single warrior-chief and his people, and again by the combined efforts of several.
The Sacramento River was called by the Wintuns, “Bo-ha Mem,” “Big River,” or “All Rivers Gathered Into One”; the Little Sacramento, “Nomp-ti-pom Mem,” or “River of the West Ground”; the Pitt River, “Pu-e-ta pom Mem,” or “River of the East Ground.” It was the largest river to the East known to the Wintuns.
www.anpa.ualr.edu /digital_library/ThreeCalifornia/The_Story_Of_Sid-Di-Pou-I-Wi-Ta.htm   (3791 words)

  
 NIGA RESOURCE LIBRARY
For thousands of years, bands of Wintun people dwelled along the waters of Cache Creek in the Capay Valley and lived off the bounty of the land.
As successful hunter-gatherers living in the abundance of a diverse environment, the Wintun Indians were self sufficient in the truest sense of the word.
When white settlers finally encroached into the territory of Northern California, the Wintun (or Patwin) people were nearly wiped out by malaria and small pox epidemics in the early 1800s.
www.indiangaming.org /library/articles/rumsey-band.shtml   (965 words)

  
 Wintun - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Chico, TheBestLinks.com:Stub, Penutian, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Wintun were Native Americans who lived in what is now Northern California.
They lived in the Sacramento River valley in the vicinity of Chico, on the west side of the river to the coast range.
The Wintun lived in small groups without centralized political authority, and lived by hunting and gathering.
www.thebestlinks.com /Wintun.html   (145 words)

  
 News&features - July 25, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Wintun’s expansion plans stand in sharp contrast to the scale of the valley.
The Wintun tribe is governed by a tribal council and the 22 adults, who are voting members.
By the 1970s, only three Wintun remained on the original rancheria, and life for those three was one of poverty.
www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2002-07-25/cover.asp   (4798 words)

  
 UK Manufacturer of Quality Draught Proofing - Wintun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wintun manufacture a comprehensive range of door threshold door and window strips and seals and specialist seals for smoke acoustic and safety applications.
Wintun products are environmentally sound, preventing heat loss to conserve energy and reduce fuel bills and in warmer climates help to keep the integrity of air conditioned buildings or keep out dust, sand and insects.
Founded in 1932, the Wintun traditions of quality, range, and service are well-established within the Draught Proofing industry.
www.wintun.co.uk   (335 words)

  
 [No title]
The jurisdiction of the Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians shall extend to all lands now within the confines of the Colusa Rancheria and the Colusa Reservation, and to such other lands as may hereinafter be added thereto.
The governing body of the Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians shall be known as the Colusa Indian Community Council which shall he composed of all qualified voters of the band.
All enrolled members of the Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians who are 21 years of age or over and who have maintained legal residence in the Community for a period of one year immediately prior to any election are qualified voters at such election.
madison.law.ou.edu /IRA/wincons.html   (1502 words)

  
 Cache Creek - About Us
Cache Creek - About Us For thousands of years, bands (small tribes) of Wintun people dwelled along the waters of Cache Creek in the serene Capay Valley and thrived off the bounty of the land.
After being forcibly removed from ancestral land, the tide is beginning to turn for the members of the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians.
The original "Rancheria" was purchased and held in trust by the U.S. Government for the Tribe under the authority of the Acts of 1906 and 1908 (34 Stat.
www.cachecreek.com /aboutus/rumseyband.aspx   (224 words)

  
 Shasta Feature
Mount Shasta has seven named glaciers with the largest being the Wintun, Hotlum, Bolam and Whitney Glaciers perched on the north and east slopes of the peak.
Higher up, the saddle between the Wintun and the Hotlum Glaciers provide excellent views of the summit, the Hotlum's headwall and the crevasses of the Hotlum Glacier.
At this point ascend the shallow gully in the center of the ridge or traverse left onto the Wintun Glacier/snowfield and continue to the summit.
www.telemarktips.com /Shasta.html   (1857 words)

  
 Lower Cache Creek, Putah-Cache Circumdrive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As you pull off the road by the Wintun Casino, you can't help but notice the contrast between the busy parking lot full of busses and cars to the east side, and the spectacular stretch of walnut trees, prime agricultural fields and the Blue Ridge hills in the distance across the road to the west.
Fifty or so Wintun natives remained in the Capay Valley on the Rumsey Indian Rancheria (which is geographically split, with a small area near Rumsey and a larger tract near Brooks).
However, the Wintuns (originally from farther up the Sacramento Valley) at Rumsey built a casino, which has become a lively spot on an otherwise sparsely populated Highway 16.
bioregion.ucdavis.edu /where/circumlc.html   (3261 words)

  
 The Back Country - Message Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The hotlum wintun snowfield is fairly smooth until 12,000, where 1-4 ft shingles start.
Traversed left onto the wintun and climbed the gullies to the summit.
From here we stayed on the wintun, which was awsome corn.
www.thebackcountry.net /board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=126&ARCHIVE=   (192 words)

  
 ► Wintun School School - Napa, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wintun School School is in the Napa Cnty.
Winnemen Band of Wintun of Shasta County 1720 Riverside...
Wintun School 74 Wintun Ct Napa 94559 253-6850 Wooden Valley Elementary Schl 1340 Wooden Valley Rd Napa...
www.schoolsleuth.com /schools/counties/napa/napa-cnty-office-of-education/wintun-school-school.php   (314 words)

  
 Wintun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wintun have 70 years' experience in supplying quality insulation products and safety products for installation in newly built schools and especially refurbishing existing ones.
Product design is tailored to ease of fitting, quality and performance, shown by our ISO 9002 quality system (10 years), along with Investors in People award (4 years).
Especially the R15/0, which is high performance but very low in height, so children do not trip and to ease access for wheelchairs/prams etc.
www.everythingeducation.org /Suppliers/SupplierTemplate1.asp?MySupplierID=739   (133 words)

  
 Glosses.net : makeup your mind » Wintu-2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Wintu language was originally spoken along the upper Sacramento, upper Trinity, and the Pit-McCloud rivers, i.e in the Northern California counties Shasta, Trinity, and Siskiyou.
Wintu is a member of the Wintun language family, along with Nomlaki and Patwin*.
The Wintun is a branch of the Penutian stock of languages.
glosses.net /archives/2003/08/26/wintu-2   (775 words)

  
 [No title]
In order to further the economic well-being and independence of the Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, the Community is hereby chartered as a body politic and corporate of the United States of America, under the corporate name, Colusa Indian Community.
All leases and permits relating to the use of Community grazing lands shall conform to regulations of the Secretary of the Interior authorized by Section 6 of the Act of June 18, 1934, with respect to range carrying capacity and other matters therein specified.
The termination shall be effective upon ratification by majority vote of the adult members of the Community residing in the Community, at an election in which at least 30 percent of the eligible voters vote.
thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/winchrtr.html   (740 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Wintun live in North Central California, on the Paskenta, Redding, Cortina, Grindstone Creek, Colusa and Rumsey Rancherias.
They are divided into the Northern Wintun (Wintu), the Nomlaki and the Patwin.
The Northern Wintun supplied the Shasta with deer hides, woodpecker scalps, baskets, acorns, pine nut beads, clam disc beads, dried salmon, clams and shell beads.
bss.sfsu.edu /calstudies/NativeWebPages/wintun2.html   (365 words)

  
 Skiing the Cascade Volcanoes: Mount Shasta
At 12400 ft, the ski route crosses the ridge onto the north edge of the Wintun Glacier, which is relatively crevasse-free.
This was an superb trip, 6200 vertical feet on great snow.) The northern lobe of the Wintun Glacier itself may be descended directly to snowfields south of Hotlum-Wintun Ridge, although this requires a longer traverse to return to the trail.
The Clear Creek Route (Southeast Ridge) and the neighboring Wintun Ridge are the least difficult climbing and skiing routes to the summit of Mount Shasta.
www.skimountaineer.com /CascadeSki/CascadeSki.php?name=Shasta   (1779 words)

  
 brooks
Beginning with the Gold Rush, Wintun tribal members were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands and killed.
In the 1920's, the federal government established rancherias for surviving tribes, and part of the Wintun tribe was placed on a rancheria in Rumsey.
In 1942, the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians moved its rancheria to a nearby 56-acre site in Brooks, which today serves as home sites for three tribal families and is the location of the tribe's new preparatory school for pre-k through 8th grade students.
www.espartochamber.com /brooks.htm   (173 words)

  
 Wintun --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Four primary linguistic groupings, each, in fact, speaking a number of dialects, made up the Wintun population: the northern Wintun (Wintu), the central…
Four primary linguistic groupings, each, in fact, speaking a number of dialects, made up the Wintun population: the northern Wintun (Wintu),...
The phylum consists of 15 language families with about 20 languages; the families are Wintun (two languages), Miwok-Costanoan (perhaps five Miwokan languages, plus three extinct Costanoan...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077245?&query=wintun   (377 words)

  
 Wintun Indians of Califorina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Primarily, the book is about the northern Wintu, one of four divisions of the Wintun.
Two of the most interesting sections of the book are the glossary and another section on Wintun use of plants.
"The Wintun lacked a written language, but Knudtson has used lists prepared by earlier anthropologists and talks with surviving members of the tribe to prepare a phonic vocabulary list that show geographic variations.
www.naturegraph.com /indian/in-gen/Wintun_I.html   (381 words)

  
 ASL Wintun - High Quality Architectural Sealing Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wintun products are environmentally sound, preventing heat loss to conserve energy and reduce fuel bills and in warmer climates help to keep the integrity of air conditioned buildings.
Manufactured to BS EN ISO 9002, 1994, the British Standard for quality assurance, meeting the British Standard BS 7386 (1990) for the Draughtstripping of Domestic Doors and Windows and BS 6375 for the performance and durability of thresholds where stated.
Wintun Limited, Wintun Works, Millerston, Paisley, PAl 2XR.
www.buyersguide.co.uk /document/wintun   (208 words)

  
 Columns - July 25, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
And on the other side is the Rumsey Band of the Wintun, who were once poor but are now smartly flexing their economic muscle and cashing in on their Cache Creek casino income, building a community with homes and schools.
It is ironic that the mostly white, liberal-leaning organic farmers who welcomed the Wintun are now pitted against the Native Americans who have learned to buy political power and push their capitalistic expansion plans through.
The Wintun’s plans for a mega-expansion of the Cache Creek casino are not going over too well with the farmers.
www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2002-07-25/editnote.asp   (304 words)

  
 Turns-All-Year Trip Reports - June 11, 2004, Mt Shasta, Clear Creek & Wintun
The Clear Creek route itself and adjacent Wintun Ridge have little snowcover left on their upper portions, but a continuous ski line from the summit could still be found by crossing below the Watkins Glacier onto the Wintun Glacier, and then following it directly up the east side of the summit block.
Skiing across and down the Wintun Glacier, the weird mix of snow conditions continued, with everything from fresh wind-packed powder to crust and even a few nice long stretches of corn-like snow.
The suncups became larger as I neared the south edge of the Wintun Glacier, with areas near 11000 ft along Wintun Ridge reaching 1-2 ft high, but still soft enough to be skiable.
www.turns-all-year.com /cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=tr0406;action=display;num=1087977206   (1197 words)

  
 Mt. Shasta - Hotlum-Wintun
At about 12,400 feet made the traverse to climber's left to the Wintun Glacier and proceeded onward.
Scott (L) and Jon below the rockband at the traverse to the upper Wintun Glacier.
The pitch on the upper Wintun was stunning.
www.spiritone.com /~carpjam/html/shasta/hotlumWintun6.01.html   (1452 words)

  
 FR Doc 03-12406
The Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California enacted Tribal Council Ordinance No. 02-04, on September 24, 2002, for the purpose of governing the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages only at its Indian gaming facility on tribal trust lands, known as the Cache Creek Indian Bingo & Casino and related hotel (``Facility'').
This notice is published in accordance with the authority delegated by the Secretary of the Interior to the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs by 209 Departmental Manual 8.1.
Certification The foregoing ordinance was adopted by a vote of 5 for, and 0 against and 0 abstentions, at a duly called meeting of the Rumsey Indian Rancheria Tribal Council at which a quorum was present, on this 24th day of September 2002.
a257.g.akamaitech.net /7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-12406.htm   (1109 words)

  
 Mount Shasta via the Hotlum Wintun Ridge
We traversed over to the snowfield that merges with the upper reaches of the Wintun Glacier.
We could see a blue ice bergschrund at the top of the Wintun to the south, on the other side of a big rock.
Soon we were on the bench above the Wintun Glacier.
www.tahoebackcountry.net /features/shastafred   (1223 words)

  
 SummitPost.org - Mount Shasta - Wintun Ridge
Eventually a more prominent ridgeline is gained if one strays to the left, and the ground flattens greatly, with the summit block only a few hundred yards away.
This is where the Clear Creek route rejoins the Wintun Ridge route.
I personally enjoyed descending the Clear Creek route since it had opportunities for VERY LONG glissades, but I definitely believe that the Wintun Ridge is a far more scenic ascent route.
www.summitpost.org /show/route_link.pl/route_id/2831/object_id/2   (818 words)

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