| The members possess power of causing sickness and contend against each other much like the shamans of the Maidu and Yokuts. |
| She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child. |
| The mythology of the several Maidu divisions is much more uniform than their religious practices. |
| The Hesi, the most important of the Maidu series, is danced also by the Wintun. |
| The Nishinam got it from the Maidu, who got it from the Konkau, who made it. |
| The distances are right, and the linguistic border between the Miwok and the Maidu runs along the Cosumnes. |
