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Southern Maidu (Nisenan) Field Notes (1928) (26 pages)
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11-26-19 5
Tarpshu, where Hattie has her land now
Wittukpakan-another place where Hattie’s family moved to—all the time searching for hazel
nuts, acorns, buckeye and other foods. Indians were hungry—rarely had enough to eat.
Indian potatoe, prep. of buckeye. “All kinds of clover, some sweet, some sour.
Hattie moved again—southward to Koyumol (Kor umo) another rocky place without a kum.
“Indians all move around a great deal.” late 19th/early 20th life
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Bomwam? near Shingle Springs, had a kum for summer big times, but not in winter.
Yorhumhu, near Shingle Springs, no kum, had doctor dance.
People down there did not travel as far as Placerville.
Tullul— People about Shingle Springs came up for big time, but not to stay. went home again
afterwards. “Sometimes Indians visited at another camp for sometime and then went away or
home.” Hattie’s father wore a deer head when hunting until white men told him it was dangerous
as he might be shot for a deer. Snares used for quail and other birds?. nets only for rabbits.
quartz rock and initiation and healing sey’oo river
Charlie R. Padilla 7/12/28
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_Kornie=south Indians; middle fork, south of Hure Bridge was about the boundary
“There was much intermarriage, so around the boundary there was a tribal mixture.”
M iwok called the Nisenan Tammule
Auburn people=Tosuminaia as Trosime= north. Colfax also
From Rocklin north to Nevada City around Folsom and Sacramento were people called Tainan’.
(westerners); they in turn called Padilla’s and Kestler’s people eastern people or Notai-musse,
which means mountaineers;
Most eastern people were Washo; fights with Washo over hunting
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Georgetown was the boundary between the Trose mann and the eastern people who extended
as far south as the Consumnes to Latrobe.
Washo Mun’amune.
Each “tribe” hunted in their own territory, belonging to the tribe. There was trouble when the
people of another tribe encroached upon the first tribe property.
Boundary was American River on north (Georgetown was both tribes) Line between Geogetown
and Hurt Bridge on west, and the Washo on the East and the Consumnes on the south.
Snares were made of greaswood (panaka’) and wild hemp. Women drove them, clubbed, put in
pile.
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