North American ethnic group Shasta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shasta_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_people https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q491693 A group of linguistically related Indigenous peoples from the Klamath Mountains. They traditionally inhabited portions of several regional waterways, including the Klamath, Salmon, Sacramento and McCloud rivers. Shastan lands presently form portions of the Siskiyou, Klamath and Jackson counties. Scholars have generally divided the Shastan peoples into four languages, although arguments in favor of more or less existing have been made. Speakers of Shasta proper, Konomihu, Okwanuchu, and New River Shasta resided in settlements typically near a water source. Their villages often had only either one or two families. Larger villages had more families and additional buildings utilised by the community.