Honey Lake Maidu Ethnogeography of Lassen County, California
UC Merced Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Title Honey Lake Maidu Ethnogeography of Lassen County, California Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xz6j609 Journal Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 19(1) ISSN 0191-3557 Authors Simmons, William S Morales, Ron Williams, Viola et al. Publication Date 1997-07-01 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 2-31 (1997). Honey Lake Maidu Ethnogeography of Lassen County, California WILLIAM S. SIMMONS, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. RON MORALES, Descendant of Honey Lake Maidu and Chairman of Lassen Yah Monee Maidu Bear Dance Foundation, 1101 Arnold St., Susanville, CA 96130. VIOLA WILLIAMS, Descendant of Honey Lake Maidu, 340 Adella St., Susanville, CA 96130. STEVE CAMACHO, Teacher, Historian, Researcher, 471-000 Buckhom, Susanville, CA 96130. Based mainly upon the testimonies of nineteenth and twentieth century Maidu inhabitants of the Honey Lake Valley in Lassen County, California, we present a Maidu perspective on local knowledge, such as where they lived, hunted, gathered, and buried their dead in the prehistoric and early histori cal periods. Drawing on family tape recordings and interview notes in the possession of the authors, as well as a range of other sources, this article is intended as a contribution to Maidu ethnogeography in the Honey Lake Valley region. While acknowledging that several ethnic groups lived in or near this region in the early historical period, atui that boundaries are social construas that may overlap and about which groups may hold different interpretations, we document a cross-generational Maidu perspective on their territorial range in the remembered past.
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