Shasta
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FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Shasta |
| Ethnie: | SHASTA |
| Language: | Shastan |
| Family: | Shastan |
| Stock: | Western Hokan |
| Phylum: | Hokan |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwestern California |
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| The Shasta were a sedentary hunter/gatherer culture that relied heavily on fishing. They lived along the Klamath River from almost Indian Creek to above Fall Creek, in the drainages of Klamath tributaries, the Scott and Shasta Rivers, and in a separate mountainous area in Oregon about the Stewart River, and Little Butte Creek affluents of the Rogue River. They suffered from depredations of both the Oregon Trail and California gold rush immigrants. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| Subdivisions (# of villages) CA Ahotiretsu (4), Cecilville (1), Iraitsu (2), Kammatwa (18); OR Kahosadi (2) |
| Present Locations |
| CA SMITH RIVER RANCHERIA, Smith River |
| OR GRANDE RONDE RESERVATION, Grande Ronde |
| OR SILETZ RESERVATION, Siletz |
| Groups With Recognition Petitions Pending |
| SHASTA NATION, Yreka |
| Year | History |
| 1821 | First contact with White trappers |
| 1850 | Gold rush, influx of miners, villages burned arbitrarily, occupants shot |
| 1855 | Had major role in the Rogue River Wars in Oregon |
| 1856 | As a result of the Rogue River Wars, some survivors taken to Grande Ronde, later to Siletz |
| 1871 | Began to practice ghost dance |
| 1921 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1967 | Lost territories to Termination Act |
| Year | Total Population | California Estimate | Source |
| 1700 | 2,000 | 1,900 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1770 | 2,000 | Kroeber estimate | |
| 1800 | 2,000 | 1,900 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1900 | 600 | 500 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1937 | 418 | U. S. Indian Office | |
| 1989 | 400 | BIA | |
| 2000 | 500 | 400 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Karuk |
| Shasta Sites |
| John Adams - A Story of Struggle http://hometown.aol.com/Rogueshast/Adams-1.html |
| Lost Tribes http://www.sacbee.com/news/projects/native/day1_main.html |
| Mt. Shasta Grizzly Legend http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore48.html |
| Mt. Shasta with Indian Encampment http://ffscat.lcs.mit.edu/ffshtml/images/img0009.htm |
| Native Peoples of Northern California http://www.alphacdc.com/ien/npeop-ca.html |
| Noted Indian Preacher Dies http://members.aol.com/Rogueshast/adams-2.html |
| Shasta http://www.curtis-collection.com/tribe%20data/shasta.html |
| Shasta Basket http://www.americantrails.com/s.php3?cart=8375&p=260 |
| Shasta Literature http://www.indians.org/welker/shasta.htm |
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