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. |