Last Updated on June 30, 2013 by The Mountains have ever been the bulwarks of freedom. Valor is born there; virtue is cherished there, and these are the seeds of song and story. No land ever yet had a literature to endure that had not these for its theme, these off-springs of the pure, sweet […]
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Last Updated on September 16, 2011 by Okwanuchu Indians. A small Shasta tribe formerly occupying the upper part of McCloud river, California as far down as Salt Creek, the upper Sacramento as far down as Squaw Creek and the valley of the latter stream. Their language is in part close to that of the Shasta
Last Updated on February 16, 2012 by Dennis Shasta Indians (from Sǔsti’ka, apparently the mane of a well known Indian tribe living about 1840 near the site of Yreka). A group of small tribes or divisions forming the Shastan linguistic family of north California and formerly extending into Oregon. The area occupied by the Shasta
