Patwin
The Patwin (also Patween or Southern Wintu ) were a tribe of North American Native Americans who lived on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers in what is now Northern California . They are one of the three groups of Wintu , made up of the Patwin, the Nomlaki and the Northern Wintu. Their language Patwin ( Wintu ) belonged to the language family of the Penuti languages . At the beginning of the 19th century, the Wintu comprised around 15,000 people; introduced diseases, wars and displacement decimated the tribes to about 2500 tribesmen in 1990, who live in different rancherias and outside. There is no Patwin among them, the tribe is considered extinct.
literature
- Barry Pritzker: Native Americans: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and peoples. ABC-CLIO, 1998, Volume 1, ISBN 0-874-36836-7 , pages 205 to 208
See also
Web links
- Access Genealogy: Patwin Indian Tribe (English)
- Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770 (map after Kroeber, English)
This article is based on the article Patwin ( Memento of July 1st, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the free encyclopedia Indianer Wiki ( Memento of March 18th, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and is under Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 . A list of the authors was available in the Indian Wiki ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).