Maidu

American  

[mahy-doo] / ˈmaɪ du /

noun

PLURAL

Maidus

PLURAL

Maidu

1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians of northeastern California.

2. the Penutian language of the Maidu.

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Example Sentences

Last year, beavers were returned to two sites on the traditional lands of Indigenous Californians, the Mountain Maidu and the Tule River Indians.

From Los Angeles Times

The Maidu people took refuge there for thousands of years during periods when the Sacramento Valley flooded.

From Los Angeles Times

That kicked off in the fall with the reintroduction of a family of seven beavers into Tásmam Koyóm, a meadow on the ancestral land of the Mountain Maidu in Plumas County.

From Los Angeles Times

The Mountain Maidu saw their Greenville Rancheria office and health facilities destroyed and the landscape severely damaged when the Dixie fire tore through the heart of their homelands the following year.

From Los Angeles Times

When his tribe, the Maidu, managed the land more sustainably.

From Los Angeles Times