The Wintun are members of several related Native American peoples of

Northern California Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. Spanning the state's northernmost 48 counties, its main population centers incl ...

, including the Wintu (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern).Pritzker, 152California Indians and Their Reservations: W.
''San Diego State University Library and Information Access.'' 2010 (retrieved 30 June 2010) Their range is from approximately present-day Lake Shasta to

San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the big cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from a ...

, along the western side of the Sacramento River to the Coast Range. Each of these tribes speak one of the Wintuan languages. Linguistic and archaeological evidence suggests that the Wintun people probably entered the California area around 500 AD from what is now southern Oregon, introducing

bow and arrow The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles ( arrows). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history, and the practice was comm ...

technology to the region (Golla 2011: 205). Winnemem_Wintu_Dancers_(3812026527)

Federally recognized Wintun tribes

* Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria * Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians * Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California *

Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians The Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, or in their own language Nomlāqa Bōda, is a federally recognized tribe of Nomlaki people. The Nomlaki are Central Wintun, or River and Hill Nomlaki, an indigenous people of California, located in Tehama a ...

Redding Rancheria The Redding Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe with a reservation in Shasta County, Northern California. It is a leader in the development of their people in their traditional homelands. The Bureau of Indian Affairs purchased the land tha ...

* Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation * Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation formerly known as the Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians"Wintun Indians."
''SDSU: California Indians and Their Reservations.'' 2011. Retrieved 25 Oct 2012.

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References

* Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. . * Golla, Victor. ''California Indian Languages.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. .

* Goddard, Ives. 1996. "The Classification of the Native Languages of North America." In ''Languages'', Ives Goddard, ed., pp. 290–324. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 17, W. C. Sturtevant, general ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. . * Liedtke, Stefan. 2007. The Relationship of Wintuan to Plateau Penutian. LINCOM studies in Native American linguistics, 55. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. * Shipley, William F. 1978. "Native Languages of California." In ''California'', Robert F. Heizer, ed., pp. 80–90. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 8, W. C. Sturtevant, general ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. . * Washington, F. B. 1989. ''Notes on the Northern Wintun Indians''. Berkeley, Calif.: California Indian Library Collections Project istributor *Whistler, Kenneth W. 1977. "Wintun Prehistory: An Interpretation based on Linguistic Reconstruction of Plant and Animal Nomenclature." ''Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 19–21. pp. 157–174. Berkeley.

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