Atsugewi
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The Atsugewi are Native Americans residing in what is now northern California, United States. Their traditional lands are near Mount Shasta, specifically the Pit River drainage on Burney, Hat, and Dixie Valley or Horse Creeks. They are closely related to the Achomawi and consisted of two groups (the Atsugé and the Apwaruge). The Atsugé ("pine-tree people") traditionally are from the Hat Creek area, and the Apwaruge ("juniper-tree people") are from the Dixie Valley. They lived to the south of the Achomawi.[1]
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Culture
The Atsugewi lived by hunting and gathering, and lived in small groups without centralized political authority. They spoke a Palaihnihan language.
Today
Today some Atsugewi people are members of the Susanville Indian Rancheria.[2]
Population
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. (See Population of Native California.) Alfred L. Kroeber estimated the combined 1770 population of the Achumawi and Atsugewi as 3,000.[3] A more detailed analysis by Fred B. Kniffen arrived at the same figure.[4] T. R. Garth (1978:237) estimated the Atsugewi population at a maximum of 850.[5]
Kroeber estimated the combined population of the Achumawi and Astugewi in 1910 as 1,100. The population was given as about 500 in 1936.
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Notes
- ^ Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Third Edition. (New York: Checkmark Books, 2006) p. 2
- ^ California Indians and Their Reservations: S. San Diego State University Library and Information Access. 2009 (retrieved 27 June 2010)
- ^ Kroeber (1925), 883
- ^ Kniffen (1928)
- ^ Garth (1978), 237
References
- Garth, T. R. 1978. "Atsugewi". In California, edited by Robert F. Heizer, pp. 236-243. Handbook of North American Indians, William C. Sturtevant, general editor, vol. 8. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Kniffen, Fred B. 1928. "Achomawi Geography". University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 23:297-332.
- Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C.
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