Wintun

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Wintun (also Wintuan, Wintoon) is the name generally given to a group of related Native American tribes who lived in Northern California, including the Wintu, Nomlaki, Patwin and Southern Patwin tribes. Their range was from approximately present-day Lake Shasta to San Francisco Bay, along the western side of the Sacramento River to the Coast Range. Each of these tribes spoke one of the Wintuan languages.

See also

• Wintu
• Nomlaki
• Wintuan languages

External links

• Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770 (map after Kroeber)
• Wintuca:Wintun