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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

Nisenan Dialects & Districts of Speech Community (2006) (8 pages)

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Pa . autonomous nature of the Nisenan sociopolitical system can be seen. The consultants never discussed these groups as separate peoples, or Separate districts, and considered all to be one people. The district was bounded north at the Bear River moving with the westward flow of the river to about the town of Sheridan. The boundary then followed the Bear River northeast past the heavily populated areas of Colfax and into the mountainous regions. The informants claimed the environs as far north as Blue Canyon and Emigrant Gap. To the east the district included areas to Geoietonn and Garden Valley. Moving from the east in a southerly Sweep into the valley the district included the areas of Roseville, Rocklin, and Lincoln. Powers (1874) lists the residential sites moving up the Bear River and identified the people of the Lower Bear River region as Neeshenams. For this reason these sites have been included in the Northern Nishenan District. There is no evidence to support separation of the lands along the Bear River from the Northern Nishenan district. Map 10 ~ Estom NISENAN DISTRICT Map 10 represents the territories of the Estom Nisenan. There is very limited data on the area this district encompassed. Merriam described the land base as, From Sloughhouse and Cosumnes to near Sacramento, lower Deer Creek and Cosumnes. Believed to go down to join Poo-soo-ne. Language near Nottomusse (Merriam n.d. pp).