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What is a Maidu?

What is a Maidu? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member of an indigenous people of northern California, residing in the central Sierra Nevada.
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Kodoyanpe, the Maidu creator, discovered the world along with Coyote, and with his aid rendered it habitable for mankind.
She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
Work by Orin Starn on the return of Ishi's brain to a group of Maidu in California describes similar tensions, sentiments, and ceremony.
At some of these ceremonies images representing the dead, and recalling those of the Maidu far to the north, were burned.
The distances are right, and the linguistic border between the Miwok and the Maidu runs along the Cosumnes.
Like many Indian languages, it is polysynthetic, meaning that what we would express in a sentence the Maidu express in a single word containing a long string of suffixes.

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