Nomlaki
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 Wintun people[1] |
The Nomlaki (also Noamlakee, Central Wintu, Nomelaki) are a
Nomlaki groups
There are two main groups:
- The River Nomlaki lived in the Sacramento River region of the valley.
- The Hill Nomlaki lived west of the River Nomlaki. Their territory is now within Glenn and Tehama counties and the River Nomlaki region.
The Nomlaki spoke a Wintuan language known as Nomlaki. It was not extensively documented, however, some recordings exist of speaker Andrew Freeman and Sylvester Simmons.[2]
Population
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. (See
Kroeber estimated the population of the Nomlaki, Wintu, and Patwin in 1910 as 1,000.
Today
The US federal government restored the
See also
Notes
- ^ a b California Indians and Their Reservations. San Diego State University Library and Information Access. 2010 (retrieved 30 June 2010)
- ^ "UC Berkeley, BLC Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork". mip.berkeley.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
References
- Cook, Sherburne F. 1976a. The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Goldschmidt, Walter. 1978. "Nomlaki". In California, edited by Robert F. Heizer, pp. 341–349. Handbook of North American Indians, William C. Sturtevant, general editor, vol. 8. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Goldschmidt, Walter Rochs. Nomlaki Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951.
- Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C.
- Mithun, Marianne. 1999. The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
- Smythe, Charles W., and Priya Helweg. Summary of Ethnological Objects in the National Museum of Natural History Associated with the Nomlaki Culture. Washington, D.C.: Repatriation Office, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1996.
- A closely related Wintun dialect directly north of the Nomlaki, the Wintu
External links
- Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770 (map after Kroeber), California Pre-History
- Nomlaki language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
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