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The Maidu inhabited a series of mountain valleys in northeastern California. In general, the area occupied by the Maidu had an elevation of more than 4,000 feet above sea level. The Maidus are usually divided into three main groups, based elevation: valley, foothill, and mountain. Of the these, the valley group Maidus were most numerous.

In many areas, where winter would allow, they had permanent villages, while in other areas they had villages which were occupied only during the warmer months. Each village community, which consisted of several adjacent villages, was considered an autonomous political and social entity: there was no overall Maidu government.

In his classic 1925 Handbook of the Indians of California, A. L. Kroeber describes the Maidu territory this way:

“Their territory may be described as consisting of the drainage of the Feather and American Rivers: or differently stated, the region from the Sacramento River east to the crest of the Sierra Nevada.”

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