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Ishi, the Glossary

Ishi (– March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States.^[1]

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Alfred Kroeber

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

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American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), published quarterly by Wiley.

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American Indian boarding schools

American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.

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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Arrowhead

An arrowhead or point is the usually sharpened and hardened tip of an arrow, which contributes a majority of the projectile mass and is responsible for impacting and penetrating a target, as well as to fulfill some special purposes such as signaling.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Beothuk

The Beothuk (or; also spelled Beothuck) were a group of Indigenous people who lived on the island of Newfoundland.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Digital Library

The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997.

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California genocide

The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century. Ishi and California genocide are native American history of California.

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California gold rush

The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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California Historical Society

The California Historical Society (CHS) is the official historical society of California.

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California Indian Wars

The California Indian Wars were a series of wars, battles, and massacres between the United States Army (or often the California State Militia, especially during the early 1850s), and the Indigenous peoples of California. Ishi and California Indian Wars are native American history of California.

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California State Library

The California State Library is the state library of the State of California, founded in 1850 by the California State Legislature.

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Carl Haber

Carl Haber is an American physicist.

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Chico Enterprise-Record

The Chico Enterprise-Record is the daily newspaper of Chico, California.

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Christopher Trumbo

Christopher Trumbo (September 25, 1940 – January 8, 2011) was an American television writer, screenwriter and playwright.

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Colma, California

Colma (Ohlone for "Springs") is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).

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Demasduit

Demasduit (1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on Newfoundland.

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Dwinelle Hall

Dwinelle Hall is the second largest building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir (January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.

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Eloy Casados

Eloy Phil Casados (September 28, 1949 - April 19, 2016) was an American film, television and voice actor.

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Feather River College

Feather River College (FRC) is a community college in Quincy, California.

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Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is an American writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation.

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Grace Darling (actress)

Grace Darling (née Foster; November 20, 1893 – October 7, 1963) was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.

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Graham Greene (actor)

Graham Greene (born June 22, 1952) is a Canadian actor who has worked on stage and in film and television productions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Hampton University

Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia.

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Hampton, Virginia

Hampton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Hiram Good

Harmon Augustus Good (– May 4, 1870) led a life as an “Indian hunter.” His closest friends in California addressed him as Hiram or simply "Hi" Good.

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Horse harness

A horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a horse-drawn vehicle or another type of load to pull.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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IRENE (technology)

IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.) is a digital imaging technology designed to recover analog audio stored on fragile or deteriorating phonograph cylinders, records, and other grooved audio media.

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Ishi Giant

Ishi Giant is a giant sequoia in California, United States.

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Ishi in Two Worlds

Ishi in Two Worlds is a biographical account of Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi Native American people. Ishi and Ishi in Two Worlds are native American history of California.

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Ishi Wilderness

The Ishi Wilderness is a 41,339 acre (167 km2) wilderness area located on the Lassen National Forest in the Shasta Cascade foothills of northern California, United States.

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Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) is a made-for-television biopic based on the book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber.

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Jed Riffe

Jed Riffe is an American filmmaker.

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John Burton (American politician)

John Lowell Burton (born December 15, 1932) is an American politician who served in both the California State Assembly and the United States House of Representatives.

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Juana Maria

| birth_date. Ishi and Juana Maria are last known members of an Indigenous people and last known speakers of a Native American language.

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KALW

KALW (91.7 MHz) is an educational FM public radio station, licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which serves the San Francisco Bay Area.

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King Krule

Archy Ivan Marshall (born 24 August 1994), also known by his stage name King Krule, among other names, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, rapper and record producer.

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Knapping

Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Lithic technology

In archaeology, lithic technology includes a broad array of techniques used to produce usable tools from various types of stone.

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Looting

Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Maidu

The Maidu are a Native American people of northern California.

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Man of the Hole

The Man of the Hole (–), or the Tanaru Indian, was an Indigenous person who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Ishi and Man of the Hole are last known members of an Indigenous people.

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Mbuti people

The Mbuti people, or Bambuti, are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa.

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Measles

Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus.

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Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.

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Mount Kimbie

Mount Kimbie is an English electronic music duo consisting of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, Mount Kimbie was formed in 2008.

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Mount Sutro

Mount Sutro is a hill in central San Francisco, California.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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National Museum of the American Indian Act

The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAI Act) was enacted on November 28, 1989, as Public Law 101-185.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nicoleño

The Nicoleño were an Uto-Aztecan people who lived on San Nicolas Island in California.

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Nomlaki

The Nomlaki (also Noamlakee, Central Wintu, Nomelaki) are a Wintun people native to the area of the Sacramento Valley, extending westward to the Coast Range in Northern California.

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Olivet Gardens of Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

Olivet Gardens of Cypress Lawn Memorial Park was founded in 1896, originally as the Mount Olivet Cemetery, and is located at 1601 Hillside Boulevard in Colma, California.

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Oroville, California

Oroville (Oro, Spanish for "Gold" and Ville, French for "town") is the county seat of Butte County, California, United States.

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Orpheum Circuit

The Orpheum Circuit was a chain of vaudeville and movie theaters.

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Ota Benga

Ota Benga (– March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo.

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Panama–Pacific International Exposition

The Panama–Pacific International Exposition was a world's fair held in San Francisco, California, United States, from February 20 to December 4, 1915.

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Phonograph cylinder

Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after its creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.

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Pit River

The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley.

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Pit River Tribe

The Pit River Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of eleven bands of indigenous peoples of California.

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Projectile point

In archaeological terminology, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a javelin, dart, or arrow.

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Pygmy peoples

In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short.

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Red Bluff, California

Red Bluff is a city in and the county seat of Tehama County, California, United States.

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Redding Rancheria

The Redding Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe with a reservation in Shasta County, Northern California. Ishi and Redding Rancheria are Yana people.

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Robert Ellis Miller

Robert Ellis Miller (July 18, 1927 – January 27, 2017) was an American film director.

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Robert Heizer

Robert Fleming Heizer (July 13, 1915 – July 18, 1979) was an archaeologist who conducted extensive fieldwork and reporting in California, the Southwestern United States, and the Great Basin.

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Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Saxton Pope

Saxton Temple Pope (September 4, 1875 – August 8, 1926) was an American doctor, teacher, author and outdoorsman.

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Selig Polyscope Company

The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago, Illinois.

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Sequoiadendron giganteum

Sequoiadendron giganteum, also known as the giant sequoia, giant redwood or Sierra redwood is a coniferous tree, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae.

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Shanawdithit

Shanawdithit (ca. 1801 – June 6, 1829), also noted as Shawnadithit, Shawnawdithit, Nancy April and Nancy Shanawdithit, was the last known living member of the Beothuk people, who inhabited Newfoundland, Canada. Ishi and Shanawdithit are last known members of an Indigenous people and last known speakers of a Native American language.

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Sierra Foothills is a vast American Viticultural Area (AVA) encompassing the foothill "belt" of the Sierra Nevada in north-central California, United States.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States.

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T. T. Waterman

Thomas Talbot Waterman (April 23, 1885 – January 6, 1936) was an American anthropologist.

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The California Museum

The California Museum is the state history museum of California, located in its capital city of Sacramento and housed within the Secretary of State building complex.

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The Last of His Tribe

The Last of His Tribe is a 1992 American made-for-television drama film based on the book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe.

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The San Francisco Call

The San Francisco Call (Post) was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California.

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Theatre Rhinoceros

Theatre Rhinoceros, Theatre Rhino, or The Rhino is a gay and lesbian theatre in San Francisco.

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Theodora Kroeber

Theodora Kroeber (March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Uncontacted peoples are groups of indigenous peoples living without sustained contact with neighbouring communities and the world community.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California.

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Vina, California

Vina (Spanish: Viña, meaning "Vine") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tehama County, California.

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Wintu

The Wintu (also Northern Wintun) are Native Americans who live in what is now Northern California.

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Wintun

The Wintun are members of several related Native American peoples of Northern California, including the Wintu (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern).

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Yana language

The Yana language (also Yanan) is an extinct language that was formerly spoken by the Yana people, who lived in north-central California between the Feather and Pit rivers in what is now the Shasta and Tehama counties. Ishi and Yana language are Yana people.

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