The area which my people, the Nisenan Maidu, came from ...[was] not so much a territorial boundary but an area for which we would fish, but also travel along the river banks, you know, to gather ...

It's a very sad story. They went along the foothill areas, especially above Sacramento and all along this ridge, gathering up all these native peoples, mostly Maidu people, and forcing them to ...

M olly Alves carefully stepped through the dry reed grass carpeting Tásmam Koyóm, a 2,325-acre valley in Northern California and the ancestral lands of the Mountain Maidu people.The beaver ...