This time a spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe asked to change the name to Middle Mountain, which translates from the original Nisenan name for the volcanic hills ...

Water and floods have shaped the landscape, from the Nisenan people who lived there before settlers turned the ground to farmland, and more settlers eroded the landscape during the Gold Rush ...

For the first time, a Native American tribe has formally supported the renaming of the Sutter Buttes, submitting the second proposal to change the name of the Sutter County icon to the U.S. Board on ...