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n. - A Copehan language; A member of a North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California.

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  • Derivation: From the Wintun word yuki, meaning “stranger;” secondarily,
  • Maidu, Wintun, Hupa and Yurok, has served in the military for 38 years, including three years in Iraq.
  • Powers says (235) that the Wintun of California have a special dance and celebration when a girl reaches the age of puberty.
  • The Sutter Buttes figure prominently in the creation stories and other traditions of the indigenous Maidu and Wintun peoples.
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