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We are a traditional people who are concerned with the lands we have called home since the Creator placed us here. We are concerned with the preservation and protection of our cultural life-ways.
We are a traditional people who are concerned with the lands we have called home since the Creator placed us here. We are concerned with the preservation and protection of our cultural life-ways.
The Winnemem (Middle-Water) Wintu have a well documented history and pre-history in our traditional territory. We have our spiritual healers and doctors who still practice our ways of wellness, through herbal medicines, ceremony, prayers, and songs. We go to our sacred places and dance for all our relations. It is this continuous movement of the Wintu people that verifies we have never changed or become extinct.
Our tribal history is long in the knowledge and tradition of our religion and it is that religion that keeps our people alive. We take care of many sacred places located in northern California on what has always been "our land." We continue to do our religious job that the Creator put us down in this part of the world to do.
We come from Mount Shasta. This fact makes us people of nature. It also is the foundation of our religion, provides us our place of worship, and makes us responsible for the care of the mountain, which we do through prayers, songs, and dances. We have other places, too, like Cold Spring Mountain that was made by the great Creator for the Wintu Tribe to take care of.
The mountains are sad when the Wintu cannot come to hold ceremony, dance, pray and sing. When the Wintu can no longer perform our religious jobs, the Creator has said the world will be thrown out of balance.
We fight on, however, because if we are to lose, there will be no place in the world where you will find Wintu people and
Mt. Shasta.
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