Wintu
Americannoun
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Wintus,
plural
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Wintu
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a member of an American Indian people of the Sacramento River valley in California.
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the Wintun language of the Wintu.
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The Winnemem Wintu Tribe hopes these salmon, exported more than a century ago, will revive the genetic diversity of the few remaining endangered salmon in the Sacramento River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
The efforts include restoring wetlands to create more habitat along the Sacramento River, and cooperating with the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to reintroduce salmon upstream of Shasta Dam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
The Sacramento River provided such an abundance of food that the Wintu and many neighboring tribes — the Pit River, Yana, Nomlaki and others — had little to fight over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Historians and ethnographers say the Wintu were the predominant tribe around the site proposed for the casino complex, an expanse of meadow and scrubland that locals dub the Strawberry Fields because of its agricultural history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
The shooting of Wakara into the sky is a curious variant of the tree-bending by Tulchuherris and Sas in the Wintu myth.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
It has great power of describing the physical features of the country in which it is spoken, as well as the beliefs and ideas of the Wintus themselves.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
He gave them the names which they have now, the names by which we Wintus call them.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
I cannot explain their position better than by giving the words of one of the most intelligent Wintus whom I have met.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
All the Wintus know them, and are afraid.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
The lightning song, by referring to the connection between lightning and the sucker, which has one of the most formidable spirits, enables us to suspect why the sucker is so much feared by Wintus.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
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