Hill Nisenan

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Hill Nisenan are a subgroup of the Nisenan people, an Indigenous Maidu-speaking community traditionally inhabiting the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hill Nisenan canonical 2

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
subgroup of the Nisenan people
affectedBy California Gold Rush
U.S. westward expansion
country United States
culturalArea California cultural area
currentEffort cultural revitalization
language revitalization
ethnicGroupOf Northern California
hasAutonymLanguage Nisenan
hasEthnonym Hill Nisenan
hasOralTradition myths and stories tied to Sierra Nevada landscape
historicalLanguageStatus endangered
indigenousTo California
Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California
languageFamily Maiduan languages
largerLinguisticFamily Maidu
locatedIn Northern California
Sierra Nevada foothills
partOf California Native American tribes
Maidu-speaking communities
regionType foothill
relatedGroup Maidu
linked to: Maidu people

Valley Nisenan
sharesCeremoniesWith other Nisenan groups
sharesCultureWith Nisenan people
sharesLanguageWith Nisenan people
sharesTerritoryWith other Maidu-speaking groups
subgroupOf Nisenan people
traditionalCraft basketry
traditionalEconomy seasonal round of resource use
traditionalHousing conical bark houses
semi-subterranean earth lodges
traditionalLanguage Nisenan language
traditionalRegion American River watershed
Bear River watershed
linked to: Bear River

Sierra Nevada foothills
Yuba River watershed
traditionalReligion Native Californian spiritual traditions
traditionalSubsistence acorn gathering
fishing
hunting
plant foraging
usesResource foothill game animals
oak woodlands
riverine fisheries

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nisenan neighboringGroup Hill Nisenan
Hill Nisenan hasEthnonym Hill Nisenan