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Maidu, North American Indians who spoke a language of Penutian stock and originally lived in a territory extending eastward from the Sacramento River to the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains and centring chiefly in the drainage of the Feather and American rivers in California, U.S.

As with other tribes of California Indians, the Maidu ate seeds and acorns and hunted elk, deer, bears, rabbits, ducks, and geese; they also fished for salmon, lamprey eel, and other river life. Before Spanish colonization, each Maidu group resided in one of three habitats: the inland valleys, the Sierra Nevada foothills, or the mountains themselves. The valley people were prosperous, but poverty was more common in the higher habitats. Ironically, those Maidu who were the least exposed to inclement conditions had the most-sophisticated technology and were able to construct the most-protective shelter. Thus, the valley people built large earth-covered communal dwellings, whereas the foothill dwellers and mountaineers made more-fragile brush or bark lean-tos.

Traditional Maidu social organization was built around autonomous, yet allied, settlements; each claimed a communal territory and acted as a single political unit. Among southern groups the chiefs were hereditary, but among northern groups they could be deposed and probably achieved their position through wealth and popularity.

Like many other central California tribes, the Maidu practiced the Kuksu religion, involving male secret societies, rites, masks and disguises, and special earth-roofed ceremonial chambers. Some of the purposes of the rituals were naturalistic-to ensure good crops or plentiful game or to ward off floods and other natural disasters such as disease.

Population estimates indicated more than 4,000 individuals of Maidu descent in the early 21st century.

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Interview with Doloes Quintero- A Miwok Native American

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Miwok Dancers - Native American Heritage

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The people who settled in this area many centuries ago are now referred to as the Northern Sierra Miwok. They established their villages alongside the rivers and streams of the Sierra Nevada from the Cosumnes River on the north to the Calaveras River on the south. Other Miwok groups lived to the west and south in California's great central valley as far west as Mount Diablo and south as far as Yosemite National Park.

The Miwok of this immediate area gathered acorns and other kinds of seeds and ground them into meal in the mortar holes - or chaw'se - in the large flat limestone outcropping in the meadow. They also caught fish and hunted deer and other game throughout these hills. The climate was agreeable, the water supply was generally reliable, and many good village sites were available. Commodities that could not be found locally could often be obtained through trade with neighboring tribes.

The Miwok possessed an extraordinarily detailed understanding of the resources that were available to them and they passed this knowledge down from generation to generation. Plant foods were generally collected and processed by women while men trapped, fished and hunted. All resources were used with care and thanksgiving so they would continue to be available, and they were used fully. Little or nothing was wasted. For example, a plant called soap root was mashed and used not only as soap, but also to stupefy and catch fish. Its leaves were eaten fresh and the bulb could also be baked and eaten. The fibrous leaves could be dried and bundled so it could be used as a brush.

Deer were the most important animal resource and again, all parts were used. The meat was used for food. Clothing was made from the hide. Antlers, bones and hooves were used for tools and instruments. The brain was used to tan the hide.

Like most California Indian groups, the Miwok relied upon acorns as a mainstay of their diet. Acorns were harvested in autumn, dried and stored in large granaries called cha'ka. These could be eight or more feet high and were made of poles interwoven with slender brush stems. Resembling large baskets, they were lines with pine needles and wormwood, the odor of which repelled insects and rodents. The cha'ka was thatched with short boughs of white fir of incense cedar to shed snow and rain.

Acorns are rich in nutrition, but they contain a great deal of tannin, which makes them bitter to taste. They had to be processed to make them edible. The Miwok cracked and shelled them and then placed the acorn meat in a mortar cup where it could be pounded with a stone pestle to the texture of a fine meal. Hot and cold water was poured through the meal to leach out the tannin.

The prepared meal was mixed with water to the desired texture in a large watertight cooking basket. Hot rocks were then added to the acorn mush or soup and moved about with paddles until the acorn meal was cooked.

The village was the primary political unit in Miwok life though alliances were likely to exist between villages and some basic understandings were widely held by the Miwok as a whole. Village size varied from two dozen to as many as several hundred individuals. Each village had a specific territory that belonged to the group. Because this territory encompassed several ecological life zones, the village could be reasonably sure that its need for food, clothing and shelter would be met. Diversity in the environment was important to survival.

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The Indians of the San Joaquin Valley were known as Yokuts. The word "Yokuts" mean people. The Yokuts were unique among the California natives in that they were divided into true tribes. Each had a name, a language, and a territory. The Yokuts were a friendly and peaceful loving people. They were tall, strong and well built. The Yokuts lived a simple life, depending on the land for food, clothing, and shelter.

We believe the tribe along with others belonged to the first groups that settled in California. They are called the seed-gatherers because they did no farming at all in the days before Columbus. Their main food was acorns. The Yokuts also ate wild plants, roots, and berries. They hunted deer, rabbits, prairie dogs, and other small mammals and birds. They made simple clothing out of bark and grass. Their jewelry and headbands were made of seeds and feathers. The Yokuts found life in the California valleys to be pleasant and peaceful for many centuries.

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The Indians of the San Joaquin Valley were known as Yokuts. The word "Yokuts" mean people. The Yokuts were unique among the California natives in that they were divided into true tribes. Each had a name, a language, and a territory. The Yokuts were a friendly and peaceful loving people.

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they eat acont

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they have water and grass

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The maidu roamed california the wooded hilles and river valleys of the land which know today as california

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they have a tree

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I learned that the Maidu raomed the wooded hills and river valleys.

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they has a house

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The maidu used hot coals and ashes to burn away the hair they did nit want.

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if they got sick and they don't have anything to cure them then how will they survive?

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I learned that in Maidu, 15 people can live in a house.

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they have bag and house and food

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girls or women made clothes from animals

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Flour maid from acorns was maid to thicken soup.

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the tribes houses are dome shaped

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There was two tipes of houses the house were they all gathed and the house they lived in.