Yuki people

Yuki people
Yuki men at the Nome Cult Farm, ca. 1858
Total population
569 alone and in combination[1] (2010)
Regions with significant populations
 United States ( California)
Languages
English, formerly Yuki
Related ethnic groups
Wappo people

The Yuki (also known as Yukiah) are an indigenous people of California who were traditionally divided into three groups: Ukomno'om ("Valley People", or Yuki proper),[2] Huchnom ("Outside the Valley"),[3] and Ukohtontilka or Ukosontilka ("Ocean People", or Coast Yuki).[4] The territory of these three groups included Round Valley and much of northern Mendocino County and Lake County. Today they are enrolled members of the Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation. The exonym "Yuki" may derive from the Wintu word meaning "foreigner" or "enemy."[5]

Yuki tribes are thought to have settled as far south as Hood Mountain in present-day Sonoma County.

  1. ^ "2010 Census CPH-T-6. American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2010" (PDF). www.census.gov.
  2. ^ Foster, George M. (1944-12-30). "A Summary of Yuki Culture" (PDF). Anthropological Records. 5 (3): 149–243.
  3. ^ Kroeber, Alfred Louis (1925). Handbook of the Indians of California. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
  4. ^ Gifford, E. W. (1939). "The Coast Yuki". Anthropos. 34 (1): 292–275.
  5. ^ "Yuki Indian Family History". 2007-02-10. Archived from the original on 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2021-02-02.