Atsugewi
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FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Atsugewi |
| Ethnie: | ATSUGEWI |
| Language: | Palaihnihan |
| Family: | Shastan |
| Stock: | Western Hokan |
| Phylum: | Hokan |
| Macro-Culture: | Transitional: Kuksu, Great Basin & Northwest |
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| The Atsugewi were a small semi-sedentary hunter/ gatherer tribe of northeastern California. They are closely related to, and possibly a sub-tribe of, the Achomawi. They were devastated by the settler influx that followed the gold rush. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| Apwarukei (Dixie Valley), Atguge (Hat Creek), Wamarķi (Burney Valley) |
| Present Locations |
| LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK, Mineral |
| Year | History |
| 1827 | Peter Skene Ogden visited territory |
| 1830 | Hudson Bay Co. traders in area |
| 1851 | Prospectors and settlers encroached on territory |
| 1856 | Attacked and killed Fall River ferry operators, followed by punitive war by White volunteers |
| 1857 | Fort Crook built near Fall River, peace followed |
| 1859 | Atguge band under chief Shavehead massacred Whites at Hat Creek, volunteers mistakenly annihilated friendly Apwaruge village; survivors sent to Round Valley but soon filtered back |
| 1890 | Began Ghost Dance |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1700 | 300 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1800 | 300 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1900 | 50 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1972 | 25 | Garth estimate |
| 2000 | 50 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Achomawi |
| Atsugewi Sites |
| Atsugewi Pounding Basket http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/parks/lavo/photos.htm |
| The Atsugewi Tribe of California (student projeect) http://www.cuca.k12.ca.us/la/students/Atsugewi_Indian.html |
| Cultural History of Lassen Peak http://www.shastahome.com/lassen-volcanic/content.htm |
| The Gold Rush Legacy: Greed, Pollution, and Genocide http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/spring98/sp98g_wr.htm |
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