Wintu Imagery

American miners built the former town of Kennett on Wintu lands in the 1850's. This Smelter was one of many used in gold mining operations throughout the Pacific Northwest. These smelters are important because they allowed for industrialization of gold mining, the emergence of mining towns, and the growth of the white settler population. As populations rose throughout the 19th century, so did competition for space and resources, and therefore tensions between the Wintu and the settlers.

This is a recreation of a Wintu Indian bark house at Turtle Bay Museum at Sundial Bridge in Redding, California, just across the Sacramento River. A majority of wintu territory is heavily forested by redwoods. The outer bark can be stripped from a redwood without killing the tree, so building homes from the outer bark is both sustainable and renewable. Any one Wintu bark house can be made from the bark of over fifty trees, and can range in size from approximately seven feet to fifteen feet in diameter.

Here we can see two Wintu women in western style clothes.

A view of the entrance to the Natural Bridge in Bridge Gulch in the Hayfork Valley of Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California. The site of the Wintu & Bridge Gulch Massacre of 1852.