Wintun

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Spread of the Wintun before the Spanish immigrated

The Wintun (also Wintuan , Wintoon ) are a group of related American Indian tribes that live in Northern California - to which the tribes of the so-called. Wintu (Northern Wintun), the Nomlaki (Central Wintun) and the Patwin (Southern Wintun) belong. Their area extends roughly from today's Lake Shasta to San Francisco Bay , along the western side of the Sacramento River to the coast. What these tribes have in common is that they speak one of the Wintuan languages .

literature

  • Goddard, Ives. 1996. "The Classification of the Native Languages ​​of North America." In Languages , Ives Goddard, ed., Pp. 290-324. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 17, WC Sturtevant, general ed.Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9 .
  • Liedtke, Stefan. 2007. The Relationship of Wintuan to Plateau Penutian. LINCOM studies in Native American linguistics, 55. Muenchen: Lincom Europe. ISBN 9783895863578
  • Shipley, William F. 1978. "Native Languages ​​of California." In California , Robert F. Heizer, ed., Pp. 80-90. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 8, WC Sturtevant, general ed.Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9 .
  • Washington, FB 1989. Notes on the Northern Wintun Indians . Berkeley, CA: California Indian Library Collections Project [distributor].
  • Whistler, Kenneth W. 1977. "Wintun Prehistory: An Interpretation based on Linguistic Reconstruction of Plant and Animal Nomenclature." Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society , February 19-21. pp. 157-174. Berkeley.

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