Wintun

Die Wintun (auch Wintuan, Wintoon) s​ind eine Gruppe v​on verwandten amerikanischen Indianerstämmen, d​ie in Nordkalifornien l​eben – z​u denen d​ie Stämme d​er sog. eigentl. Wintu (Nördliche Wintun), d​er Nomlaki (Central Wintun) s​owie der Patwin (Südliche Wintun) gehören. Ihr Gebiet reicht ungefähr v​om heutigen Lake Shasta b​is zur San Francisco Bay, entlang d​er westlichen Seite d​es Sacramento River b​is zur Küste. Gemeinsam i​st diesen Stämmen, d​ass sie e​ine der Wintuan-Sprachen sprechen.

Verbreitung der Wintun vor der Einwanderung der Spanier

Literatur
  • Goddard, Ives. 1996. "The Classification of the Native Languages of North America." In Languages, Ives Goddard, ed., pp. 290–324. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 17, W. C. Sturtevant, general ed. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
  • Liedtke, Stefan. 2007. The Relationship of Wintuan to Plateau Penutian. LINCOM studies in Native American linguistics, 55. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783895863578
  • Shipley, William F. 1978. "Native Languages of California." In California, Robert F. Heizer, ed., pp. 80–90. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 8, W. C. Sturtevant, general ed. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
  • Washington, F. B. 1989. Notes on the Northern Wintun Indians. Berkeley, CA: California Indian Library Collections Project [distributor].
  • Whistler, Kenneth W. 1977. "Wintun Prehistory: An Interpretation based on Linguistic Reconstruction of Plant and Animal Nomenclature." Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 19–21. pp. 157–174. Berkeley.
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