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The Shastan (or Sastean) languages are an extinct language family which consists of four languages, spoken in present-day northern California and southern

language families: Athabascan, Takelma, and Shastan. The principal tribes grouped under the name Rogue River Indians were: Lower Rogue River Athabascan (or

The Okwanuchu were one of a number of small Shastan-speaking tribes of Native Americans in Northern California, who were closely related to the adjacent

Conceptions of Indians. Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Pages 522-547. Relations Between Indians and Anthropologists. Nancy O. Lurie. Pages 548-556. The Indian Hobbyist

area. They belong to three language families: Athabaskan, Takelma, and Shastan. The Tututni (or Lower Rogue River Athabascan) tribes included the following:

Konomihu is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken in northern California. There may have been only a few speakers even before contact, and they

Shasta is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken from northern California into southwestern Oregon. It was spoken in a number of dialects, possibly

of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and the Klamath Tribes. In the 1950s 141 of the 882 Grand Ronde Reservation

include Palaihnihan with Shastan (known as Shasta-Achomawi) and within a Kahi sub-group (also known as Northern Hokan) with Shastan, Chimariko, and Karuk

culture, language, and society between the Wintu-speaking peoples and the Shastan-speakers. The Waymuq are also seen to be the same group that have been