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The
Shasta (or
Chasta) are an indigenous people of
Northern California and Southern
Oregon in the
United States. They spoke one of the
Shastan languages.
The Shasta were originally located in the greater
Shasta Valley area of
Siskiyou County near such modern communities as
Yreka, California.
Generally included with the Shasta tribe proper, are a number of adjacent smaller tribes who spoke a related Shastan language. These related tribes include the
Konomihu,
New River Shasta and the
Okwanuchu tribes.
The Shasta tribe isn't a
federally recognized tribe, though the Chasta of Oregon are part of the
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Many former members of the Shasta tribe have since been inducted into the
Karuk and
Alturas tribes.
Population
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially.
(See Population of Native California.) Alfred L. Kroeber (1925:883) put the 1770 population of the Shasta proper as 2,000 and the New River, Konomihu, and Okwanuchu groups, along with the Chimariko, as 1,000. In the 1940s,
Sherburne F. Cook arrived at a similar estimate of about 3,300, but he subsequently raised the figure to 5,900 (Cook 1976a:177, 1976b:6).
Kroeber estimated the population of the Shasta proper in 1910 as 100.
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