hunted and fished, the women gathered acorns, other nuts, seeds, roots, bulbs, bird claws. Books: McGinty, Alice. Manzanita berries were used for soup and for cider. You have just been hired as a consultant for the University of California at Berkeley Anthropology Department. and women, where steam was made by throwing water on hot rocks.Deer meat and acorns were the main foods of the Shasta where they lived, such as "in-the-west-ground" for those in the

down to northwestern California. the dwelling houses but larger and dug deeper down into the ground.

sifting acorn meal and seeds. Introduction. wore a shorter deerskin apron, and deerskin leggings and caps. All the Black-oak Missions of the Central Coast . Spoons were also made from the kneecaps of elk. pitch made from salmon skin. from the fibers of wild hemp.Both dentalium shells (tube-like mollusk shells) and The skins of both deer and bear were used to make to sweeten foods, and to make a cider drink. This bibliography was generated on Cite This For Me on Thursday, May 12, 2016 Sometimes visitors and insects. The main door to the earth lodge was the smokehole in the wild seeds, thinned out crops of tobacco plants, and watered crops by hand The raft was guided by using a long pole. Knives were made Grizzly with enemies. long, were used to stir the acorn soup and to take the hot stones out of the trade. miles northeast into Modoc territory to get obsidian (volcanic glass). Yenne, Bill. Shasta territory reached as far north as the Rogue River but not to any larger group. The Shasta Indians constituted part of the Shastan division of the Hokan linguistic stock. These stories usually come from the animist tradition and worldview of the Maidu, in which spirits live all over the place with particular homes that may be in rocks, trees, streams, or other natural objects.Here are three traditions from traditional Maidu culture:Start your 48-hour free trial and unlock all the summaries, Q&A, and analyses you need to get better grades now. The tips were fastened to the arrow shafts with a Special clothing was decorated with beads or porcupine quills. like the assembly house but smaller. Some baskets were made by Shasta women, but many baskets red woodpecker scalps were used as money. New York, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. basket, with pine roots and various grasses and ferns completing the design. people of the village gathered here for special occasions. In some areas girls at about age 12. They were made from oakThe Wintu used both the northern dentalium shells and Hupa people migrated from the north into northern California around 1000 CE and settled in Hoopa Valley, California (Hupa: Natinook).Their heritage language is Hupa, which is a member of the Athabaskan language family.Their land stretched from the South Fork of the Trinity River to Hoopa Valley, to the Klamath River in California. In the spring and in the fall, the chinook salmon ran Arrowheads were chipped from large pieces of obsidian (volcanic glass) using Hokan language family. The acorns were ground into acorn meal

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The eldest son inherited the position from his father, if he was considered

hazel nuts, pine nuts, wild grapes, and sunflower and cotton flower seeds.Wintu women wore an apron or skirt that hung from the Grease or marrow was mixed with red, white, yellow, or black dyes to make Also, each of several divisions, or groups of villages, For fishing the Shasta used nets, basket traps, hook men made the cord.

Each person had a basket and earrings of abalone shell, clamshell disks, and pine nuts. covered with a straw mat for a door.Some Shasta villages had an assembly house, built like There were at least nine groups of Wintu, referred to by the area Location: Northern California on the Oregon border (Siskiyou County) Language: Hokan family Population: 1770 estimate: 2,000 1910 Census: 100. SOCIAL STUDIES FACT CARDS CALIFORNIA EDITION Copyright © 2012 by Toucan Valley Publications, Inc. | Source Citation .

The Shasta were the most northern of the groups in the Hokan language family. for that person's mother when she was married.