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The Maidu Tribe

Where did the Maidu Tribe live at?

California

Maidu,North Americans Indians who spoke a language of Penutian stock and originally lived in a territory extending eastward from the Sacramento River to the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and centering chiefly in the drainage of the feather and american rivers in California,U.S.

Where did they live?

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What did the Maidu Tribe hunt/grow?

The Maidus were hunter-gathers.Maidu men hunted for deer and small game,and fished in rivers.Maidu women gathered acorns and ground them into meals to make bread and soups,as well as collecting berries,nuts,and other plants.

They hunt/eat elk,deer,bears,rabbits,ducks,and geese.They fished for food as well,they fished for salmon,lamprey eel,and other river life.

What did they hunt/grow?

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What did the maidu tribe make?

They made some cloths and there houses out of matireals in the forast/wild,they made jewelry with beads,they made bags and traded them to other people,they even made instruments and they even played games,there favorite game was stick/pass and ball race.

Did they make anything?

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Who was famous in the Maidu Tribe?

There were not many important people only artist,there was a chief but that was the last one his name is Louis Kelly,Known for years around Nevada city as OI Louie,was the last maidu indian chief,and father of the last members of the Oustamah tribe in this area.They inhabited this area of the foothills and occasionally ranged as far eastward as Nevada.

Who was famous in the tribe?

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What traditions did the Maidu tribe have?

What traditions did they have?

The Maidu believed that everything in nature was alive. They honored the lakes, rocks, waterfalls, and other things in their environment. The Maidu also had great respect for animals. They held special dance ceremonies to honor grizzly bears and rattlesnakes.

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What are some fun facts about the maidu tribe

Some fun facts!!!!

Soda Springs

The Maidu's had Soda Springs.Soda Springs are a rare, accessible, naturally carbonated groundwater source first used by the native Mountain Maidu and later by white settlers.The Maidu tribe inhabited the area for before the the rush of white settlers during the 19th-century California gold rush.

Soda Springs

What did the maidu tribe trade?

The Maidu Indian tribe traded things and got things in return.They traded for things like beads, salmon, salt, special stones, pine nuts berries, and fur with the Mountain people they got back bows and arrows, deer skin, and deer hides.

What did they trade

Did the Maidus have canoes and how they made it.

Canoes

Yes,the Maidu tribe made dugout canoes by hollowing out pine logs. They used these canoes to travel and fish on the rivers.

Native Americans made Canoes from trees, burning and carving out the hull.

What does maidu mean?

The Maidu are an American Indian people of northern California. They settle in the central Sierra Nevada, in the watershed area of the Feather and American rivers. They also settle in Humbug Valley. In Maiduan languages, Maidu means "man."

What does maidu mean

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