Each Wintu family had its own tree or group of trees, to harvest in the Fall. Acorns were ground into flour and used in a variety of ways; uses included soups, meal, coffee, and more. Acorn was an important staple in the Wailakki Wintu diet.
Native of Redding, Shasta County, California. More than twenty years scholarly research into the Native Americans and the early Euro-American immigrants. I am a Wailakki Wintu, which translated means "I am a human being speaking the north language". The native people of northwest California, beginning north of the San Pablo Bay and continuing north along the west side of the river and the western foothills and into the mountains were Wailakki. I am continuing my search and sharing what I know.