Definitions
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- noun Any of a group of related
Native American tribes who live in NorthernCalifornia , including the Wintu (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern) tribes. - proper noun The family of languages which they traditionally spoke.
- adjective Of or relating to the Wintun people.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Both are members of the Nomlaki Wintun tribe of California and hail from
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The Wintun tribe of Native Americans called the char found in the McCloud River wye-dar-deekit.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The Wintun tribe of Native Americans called the char found in the McCloud River wye-dar-deekit.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The Wintun tribe of Native Americans called the char found in the McCloud River wye-dar-deekit.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The Wintun tribe of Native Americans called the char found in the McCloud River wye-dar-deekit.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Powers (238) gives this graphic picture of a domestic scene common among the Wintun Indians of California.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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Powers says (235) that the Wintun of California have a special dance and celebration when a girl reaches the age of puberty.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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Derivation: From the Wintun word yuki, meaning “stranger;” secondarily,
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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The parties were at a standoff until the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation , the tribe that owns Cache Creek casino, and Cortina Band of Patwin Indians, based in Williams, intervened in May.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chron carolynjones@sfchronicle.com (Carolyn Jones 2011
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The parties were at a standoff until the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation , the tribe that owns Cache Creek casino, and Cortina Band of Patwin Indians, based in Williams, intervened in May.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chron carolynjones@sfchronicle.com (Carolyn Jones 2011
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