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Nisenan, the Glossary

The Nisenan are a group of Native Americans and an Indigenous people of California from the Yuba River and American River watersheds in Northern California and the California Central Valley.^[1]

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Ablative case

In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced; sometimes abbreviated) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars of various languages; it is sometimes used to express motion away from something, among other uses.

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Acorn

The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).

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American River

The American River is a river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown Sacramento.

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Bear

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.

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Central Valley (California)

The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California.

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Chico, California

Chico (Spanish for "little") is the most populous city in Butte County, California, United States.

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Cosumnes River

The Cosumnes River is a river in northern California in the United States.

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Elk

The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.

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Elk Grove, California

Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Feather River

The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California.

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Handbook of North American Indians

The Handbook of North American Indians is a series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Native American studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978.

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Indigenous peoples of California

Indigenous peoples of California, commonly known as Indigenous Californians or Native Californians, are a diverse group of nations and peoples that are indigenous to the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and after European colonization.

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John Woolman School

John Woolman School (JWS) was a private boarding Quaker high school founded in 1963 in Nevada City, California.

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List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States

This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States.

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Maidu

The Maidu are a Native American people of northern California. Nisenan and Maidu are history of the Sierra Nevada (United States) and indigenous peoples of California.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Mechoopda

The Mechoopda are a tribe of Maidu people, an Indigenous people of California. Nisenan and Mechoopda are Maidu.

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Miwok

The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups Indigenous to what is now Northern California, who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family. Nisenan and Miwok are indigenous peoples of California.

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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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Nevada City Rancheria

The Nevada City Rancheria was the federally recognized land and name of the Nisenan Native American people in Northern California.

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Nisenan

The Nisenan are a group of Native Americans and an Indigenous people of California from the Yuba River and American River watersheds in Northern California and the California Central Valley. Nisenan and Nisenan are history of the Sierra Nevada (United States), indigenous peoples of California and Maidu.

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Nisenan language

Nisenan (or alternatively, Neeshenam, Nishinam, Pujuni, or Wapumni) is a nearly extinct Maiduan language spoken by the Nisenan people of central California in the foothills of the Sierras, in the whole of the American, Bear and Yuba river drainages.

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Nisipowinan Village

Nisipowinan Village, also spelled Nisenan Village was a major Nisenan Native American tribe Village that is a historical site in Sacramento, California. Nisenan and Nisipowinan Village are Maidu.

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Patriarchy

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men.

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Patrilocal residence

In social anthropology, patrilocal residence or patrilocality, also known as virilocal residence or virilocality, are terms referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents.

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Patwin

The Patwin (also Patween and Southern Wintu) are a band of Wintun people in Northern California. Nisenan and Patwin are indigenous peoples of California.

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Plains and Sierra Miwok

The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Nisenan and Plains and Sierra Miwok are history of the Sierra Nevada (United States) and indigenous peoples of California.

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

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Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).

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Sacramento River

The Sacramento River (Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California.

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Sacramento, California

() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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Schoenoplectus acutus

Schoenoplectus acutus (syn. Scirpus acutus, Schoenoplectus lacustris, Scirpus lacustris subsp. acutus), called tule, common tule, hardstem tule, tule rush, hardstem bulrush, or viscid bulrush, is a giant species of sedge in the plant family Cyperaceae, native to freshwater marshes all over North America.

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Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians

The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California is a federally recognized tribe. Nisenan and Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians are Maidu.

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Sierra Nevada

The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Sturgeon

Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.

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Trout

Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.

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Umbilical cord

In placental mammals, the umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or funiculus umbilicalis) is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta.

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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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Washoe people

The Washoe or Wašišiw ("people from here", or transliterated in older literature as Wa She Shu) are a Great Basin tribe of Native Americans, living near Lake Tahoe at the border between California and Nevada. Nisenan and Washoe people are indigenous peoples of California.

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Yuba River

The Yuba River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada and eastern Sacramento Valley, in the U.S. state of California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisenan

Also known as Nisipowinan, Southern Maidu.

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