Duncan, John Whitfield

1. Maidu Ethnobotany. Masters Thesis (Anthropology?) Sacramento: California State University, Sacramento.

The Yearly Gathering Cycle

The Northwest Maidu and the Concow used to follow the spring up into the mountains. As the land started to dry up around the Concow Lake area, many of the Indians would move up north and east until by late summer many of the camps would be near Grassy Lake, which is at least twenty-five miles north and east of the winter camps. These summer camps were used for hunting. At the same time that some of the Concow were hunting in the mountains, others were journeying to Oroville to gather grass seeds. Thus in the late summer months these Indians would be spread out over a forty or fifty mile area in order to gather foods (Pp. 35-36).