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Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi and Ahjumawi) are the northerly nine (out of eleven) bands of the Pit River tribe of Palaihnihan Native Americans who...

Achomawi traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Achomawi people of the Pit River basin of Northeastern...

coloured fur. The silver fox appears in the stories of many cultures. The Achomawi people of Northern California tell a myth about two creators: the wise silver...

are closely related to the Achomawi and consisted of two groups (the Atsugé and the Apwaruge). The Atsugé ("pine-tree people") traditionally are from the...

Modoc called themselves Moatokni maklaks, from muat meaning "South". The Achomawi, a band of the Pit River tribe, called them Lutuami, meaning "Lake Dwellers"...

establish relations with the Achomawi (Pit River), Atsugewi (Hat Creek) and Modoc. Bloody Island Massacre, May 15, 1850, 200 Pomo people killed by a U. S. Army...

traps can be seen today in Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park where the Achomawi people trapped Sacramento suckers. In the west these relationships became...

The Achumawi language (also Achomawi or Pit River language) is the indigenous language spoken by the Pit River people in the northeast corner of present-day...

the concoction were reported to succumb in less than 24 hours. The Achomawi people of northern California use Letharia to poison arrowheads. The arrowheads...

“Rogue River People”) and further south along the Pit River (Moatuashamkshini/Móatni Kóke - "River of the Southern Dwellers") lived the Achomawi and Atsugewi...

about their culture, other than a presumed similarity to their Shasta and Achomawi neighbors. The archaeological sites associated with their range date back...

the Achomawi dug to capture game that drank at the river. The name Achomawi derives from a Palaihnihan word meaning "people of the river". Achomawi territory...

painter Janice Gould (Konkow Maidu), artist Judith Lowry (Mountain Maidu/Achomawi), artist, painter Jacob A. Meders (Mechoopda-Konkow), painter, printmaker...

includes Washoe members, as well as Northern Paiute, Northeastern Maidu, Achomawi, and Atsugewi members. "Washo." Ethnologue. Accessed 9 May 2014. Pritzker...

thought to have had religious significance. Reservations with over 500 people: Achomawi, Achumawi, Pit River tribe, northeastern California: ix  Atsugewi,...

them. "The Achomawi, south of the Klamath, also were enemies of the Northern Paiute, (so much so that) the earliest wars related in Achomawi oral tradition...

California (Cleveland: Arthur H. Clarke Co., 1910). Dixon, Roland B.: Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales (Journal of American Folklore, 1908 and 1909). Alexander...

smaller creeks and streams. The Achomawi are one of eleven bands of the Pit River Tribe of native peoples. These resident people tended the local waterways...

current boundaries of California before and after the arrival of Europeans. Achomawi, Achumawi, Pit River tribe, northeastern California Atsugewi, northeastern...

adopted horses from the Sahaptin peoples to the north. With their new equestrian rides they began to attack the Shasta, Achomawi and Atsugewi for property,...