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The Winnemem Wintu Tribe hopes these salmon, exported more than a century ago, will revive the genetic diversity of the few remaining endangered salmon in the Sacramento River.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Newsom touted the effort in his 2024 salmon strategy, which featured a smiling photograph of Winnemem Wintu Chief and spiritual leader Caleen Sisk next to Chuck Bonham, then-director of the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Historians and ethnographers say the Wintu were the predominant tribe around the site proposed for the casino complex, an expanse of meadow and scrubland that locals dub the Strawberry Fields because of its agricultural history.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

And at the Wintu cultural resource center in Shasta Lake City, a wall-size timeline of the group’s history makes no mention of the 1846 bloodshed.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

To understand the Wintu mind, it is indispensable to begin with Olelbis.

From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah