Many Nisenan villages were consolidated between the 1840s to 1850s, according to CHIRP. At the same time, the U.S. implemented the federal policy known as, "Indian termination," which removed the ...

It’s located at the site of a historic Nisenan village site called Yulića. The Tribe, through CHIRP, has spent the last couple months fundraising in hopes of amassing the $1.5 million needed to ...

Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan tribal members walk on Yulića ... Ember Amador Along the gentle rolling foothills nearby Nevada City is a village known as Yulića. Across the 232 acres of this ...

Cal Fire is working with members of the United Auburn Indian Community to identify ancient tribal sites that may have been damaged during the Robbers Fire.The Placer County blaze, which has burned ...

The Nisenan Maidu just happened to be right in ... People in native California were living in sparsely settled villages throughout the entire region of California. Every mountain, every river ...

This time a spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe asked to change the name to Middle Mountain, which translates from the original Nisenan name for the volcanic hills ...

Water and floods have shaped the landscape, from the Nisenan people who lived there before settlers turned the ground to farmland, and more settlers eroded the landscape during the Gold Rush ...

April Moore, Nisenan Maidu, educator By the time that ... who shared with me a story from her family history. She said her village was attacked somewhere along the Navarro River, by a group ...

Born July 4, 1887, in the village Wokotdotnah – Wokodot, a Native American settlement on Cement Hill Road in Nevada County – Lalook was the last Nisenan headman elected in the traditional way of the ...

For the first time, the Nevada City Rancheria is inviting the community to Nisenan Heritage Day to share knowledge and culture at an event it hopes will set history’s record straight. “The community ...