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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the Gold Rush, they had a thriving society of interconnected villages, but violence and ... teach Maidu youth their ancestral language, Nisenan, which all but disappeared after the federal ...

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 ...

The Nisenan are a tribe that has lived in Northern California around the Sacramento region for centuries. But the Nisenan language has been disappearing, with only one living documented Nisenan ...

The Nisenan people of the California Central Valley say that their civilisation was wiped out when white settlers arrived during the Gold Rush of the 1850s A NATIVE American tribe are fighting to ...

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 ...