Chowchilla High School
Chowchilla Union High School is a public high school located in Chowchilla, California. It is within the Chowchilla Union High School District. Statistics Demographics In the 2016–2017 school year, the high school had a total of 1,051 students enrolled. Notable alumni *Morris Owens, former NFL wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) NFC South, South divisio ... References External links Chowchilla Union High School District Public high schools in California High schools in Madera County, California {{California-school-stub ...
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Chowchilla, California
Chowchilla is a city in Madera County, California, United States. The city's population was 19,039 at the 2020 census. Chowchilla is located northwest of Madera, at an elevation of . The city is the location of two prisons: Central California Women's Facility and Valley State Prison. Etymology The name "Chowchilla" is derived from the indigenous American tribe of Chaushila (the spelling is inconsistent in reference guides), a Yokut Indian tribe which once lived in the area. The name evidently translates as "murderers" and is apparently a reference to the warlike nature of the Chaushila tribe. It is also to be known among the Yokuts tribes later on to be associated with "bravery". The Chaushila Indians were inadvertently responsible for the first white men "discovering" Yosemite Valley, which occurred when they were being pursued by a band of whites. References to the tribe still abound in Chowchilla, and until 2016 the town's high school used the moniker "Redskins" as their ...
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