there's not a lot of info about many california tribes. most of us were peaceful, semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers and not as aesthetically iconic as some other more well-known tribes and nations
there is some, though! if you're interested in finding out more about round valley and the tribes collected there, you may want to check out this book:
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807872734/we-were-all-like-migrant-workers-here/
Weak Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: what language you speak has some impact on how you think. reasonable, almost certainly true. can be proven with studies asking people with differently-gendered words for the same noun to give adjectives for that noun.
Strong Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: what language you speak *completely determines* what you are capable of thinking. absolutely batshit, why would you even consider that possibility, 100% unprovable.
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