The Okwanuchu were one of a number of small Shastan speaking tribes in Northern California, who were closely related to the adjacent larger Shasta tribe. The Okwanuchu occupied territory south and southeast of Mount Shasta, California, USA, including the present-day cities of Mount Shasta, California and Dunsmuir, California, the upper Sacramento River and the upper McCloud River, south to the north Salt Creek drainage and east to the Squaw Valley Creek drainage. Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber suggested in 1918 that the Okwanuchu had become extinct. Although their language was closely related to that of the Shasta, it contained some elements of Wintu and Achomawi. Very little is known about the ___location of their villages and settlements, or about their culture, other than a presumed similarity to their Shasta language-speaking neighbors.
The following represents the placement of the tribal lines suggested by Alfred L. Kroeber onto a modern relief map. File:Okwanuchu Tribal Territory.jpg
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- Kroeber, A. L., “Handbook of the Indians of California.” New York, Dover Publications, 1976. Reprint. (Written in 1918, originally published as Kroeber, A.L., "Handbook of the Indians of California" (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78, Washington, D.C., 1925), subsequently reprinted in 1953 and 1976).