Madhesi tribe
 Madhesi Istet Woiche (aka William Hulsey) 1923 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 United States | 1,500 - Madhesi Valley (Big Bend), Pit River, California[1] |
| Languages | |
| English and Achumawi | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Achomawi and Madhesi people | |
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The Madhesi tribe (pronounced as Mah dhay see),[2] also written as Madesi people are the Pit River tribes and an indigenous Native Americans who lived in what is now Madhesi Valley in northeastern California of the United States. There are eleven autonomous bands (also called "tribelets") of the Pit River tribe, Madhesi is the one of them who natively spoke various dialects of one common language, and the other two bands spoke dialects of a related language, called by anthropologists Atsugewi.[3] "Madhesi" is the ethnic identity of the tribal peoples whose territory was historically along the Madhesi Valley and the Pit River from the south end of Big Valley Mountains, westerly to Pit River Falls.[4] The other ten tribes that shared the Achomawi language also had a historic homeland located along other parts of the Pit River. Their territory extended from Madhesi Valley to Goose Lake. This land was also home to the Atsugewi language group, which consisted two distinct tribes of what is now unified as the Pit River Tribe, and who lived south of the Achomawi language bands in the Hat Creek valley and Dixie Valley.[5][6] There are 11 bands in the Pit River Tribe including Achomawi, Aporidge, Astariwawi, Atsuge, Atwamsini, Hanhawi, Hewisedawi, llmawi, Itsatawi, Kosalextawi, and of course the Madhesi.[7]
References
- ↑ "Madhesis tribes of Big bend Madhesi Valley". Fourdir for Madesi tribes. Four Directions Institute. 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
- ↑ "Indigenous Madhesi bands peoples in Pit Valley".
- ↑ Nevin, Bruce E. (1998), "Aspects of Pit River Madhesi phonology" (PDF), Ph.D. Dissertation (University of Pennsylvania)
- ↑ Merriam, C. Hart, The Classification and Distribution of The Pit River Indian Tribes of California. Smithsonian Institution (Publication 2874), Volume 78, Number 3, 1926
- ↑ Carl Waldman (September 2006). Encyclopedia of Native American tribes. Infobase Publishing. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-8160-6274-4. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ↑ "Big Bend and Big Bend Hot Springs History". Big Bend Hot Springs Project. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ↑ White, Phillip. "California Indians and their reservations: an online dictionary". SDSU Library. Retrieved 9 March 2016.