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In West Sacramento, a local public agency worked closely with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation to rename two streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
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
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
Derivation: From the Wintun word yuki, meaning “stranger;” secondarily, “bad” or “thieving.”
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell
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