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The newly renamed ridgeline has been significant to tribal nations such as the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation for thousands of years.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024
Flores said Whipple was a good kid, a “kind person” who grew up in rural California and a member of the Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023
Nielsen also acknowledges accepting Sacramento Kings basketball tickets from the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation that were brokered through an intermediary.
From Washington Times • Aug. 10, 2015
Another small tribe, the 60-member Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, has used profits from its Cache Creek casino to buy land and diversify into agriculture.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2012
The latter is Costanoan: the former could not be Wintun.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Cook, Sherburne Friend
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