- Yuki tribe
The Yuki are a Native American tribe from the zone of
Round Valley , in what today is part of the territory ofMendocino County ,Northern California . Divisions of this tribe are thought to have settled as far south asHood Mountain . In their language, the Yuki called themselves "Ukomno'm" ("Valley People"). The name "Yuki" is, in fact, an adaptation of theWintu term "yuki" (meaning "enemy") used to designate them by their neighbors, theNomlaki , and from which the white explorers learned of their existence circa 1850.History
Unlike most Californian tribes, the Yuki engaged in hostilities with other native tribes that surrounded them on several occasions. As the white settlers began to flock to Northern California in the early 1850s, the Yuki were driven out of their lands, repeatedly decimated in raids conducted by the local ranchers and the authorities and taken into slavery. In 1856, the Round Valley area was turned into the
Indian reservation of Nome Cult Farm (later to becomeRound Valley Indian Reservation ), where thousands of Yuki and members of other local tribes were forced to inhabit, usually in extremely precarious conditions. These events later led to theMendocino War (1859), where hundreds of Yuki were either massacred or taken by force to Nome Cult Farm. they live in valley hillPopulation
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially.
Alfred L. Kroeber estimated the 1770 population of the Yuki proper, Huchnom, and Coast Yuki as 2,000, 500, and 500, respectively, or 3,000 in all. [Kroeber, p.883]Sherburne F. Cook initially raised this total slightly to 3,500. [Cook, 1976 p.172] Subsequently, he proposed a higher estimate of 9,730 Yuki. [Cook, 1956 pp.106, 108]Reportedly, only 100 Yuki remain today, and the Yuki language is spoken by no more than a dozen individuals.
Language
The Yuki tribe is always talking yukian
ee also
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Yuki language
*Yuki traditional narratives Notes
yuki eat fish lag is yukian speakers 6 1990 census
External links
* [http://www.rwor.org/a/v19/910-19/917/rndvaly.htm "Revolution", Revolutionary Communist Party]
* [http://www.fourdir.com/yuki.htm Four Directions Institute]
* [http://www.covelo.net/tribes/pages/tribes_rvcongress.shtml Round Valley history]
* [http://www.fourdir.com/central_california_culture.htm Central California culture]
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