FDI - Atsugewi

*Ethnie:*	ATSUGEWI
*Language:*	Palaihnihan
*Family:*	Shasta-Palainihan
*Stock:*	Karok-Shastan
*Phylum:*	Hokan
*Macro-Culture:*	Transitional: Central California, Great Basin, Northwest California

The Atsugewi were a small semi-sedentary hunter/ gatherer tribe of northeastern California. They are closely related to, and possibly a sub-tribe of, the Achomawi. They were devastated by the settler influx that followed the gold rush.

Year	*History*
1827	Peter Skene Ogden visited territory
1830	Hudson Bay Co. traders in area
1851	Prospectors and settlers encroached on territory
1856	Attacked and killed Fall River ferry operators, followed by punitive war by White volunteers
1857	Fort Crook built near Fall River, peace followed
1859	Atguge band under chief Shavehead massacred Whites at Hat Creek, volunteers mistakenly annihilated friendly Apwaruge village; survivors sent to Round Valley but soon filtered back
1890	Began Ghost Dance

Year	Population	Source
1700	300	NAHDB calculation
1800	300	NAHDB calculation
1900	50	NAHDB calculation
1972	25	Garth estimate
2000	50	NAHDB calculation

Atsugewi Sites

Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/aat/

Atsugewi http://www.californiahistory.net/2_natives/Atsugewi.htm

Atsugewi http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/nat/ats.htm

Atsugewi http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/NativeWebPages/shastan.html

Atsugewi Basket http://www.californiabaskets.com/consignmentbaskets.htm

Atsugewi Language http://www.native-languages.org/atsugewi.htm

Atsugewi Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ATW

Atsugewi Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=ATW

Atsugewi Student project http://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/alta/dfuller/2002/02j/tribe.html

Crater Lake http://www.nps.gov/crla/klsoc.htm

Cultural History of Lassen Peak http://www.shastahome.com/lassen-volcanic/content.htm

Figure Type Languages http://elies.rediris.es/elies11/cap223.htm

The Gold Rush Legacy: Greed, Pollution, and Genocide http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/spring98/sp98g_wr.htm

Image Schemas; Color; Frame Semantics http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~bbergen/cogsci110/lectures/lecture12.html

Lassen http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/US_National_Park/ca/his_la.HTM

Lassen Park http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2001Outwest/PacificNaturalHistory/Projects/CearleyD/Lassen.htm

Lassen Regional Project http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/indian/lassen/Lassen4.htm

Northeastern Culture Area http://www.californiahistory.net/text_only/2_5.htm

Pit River / Hat Creek Baskets http://www.californiabaskets.com/pages/pitriverhatcreekhome.html

Susanville Indian Rancheria http://sir-nsn.gov/

Susanville Indian Rancheria Constitution and By-Laws http://www.ntjrc.org/ccfolder/susanvilleconst.htm