Coast Yuki
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FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Coast Yuki |
| Ethnie: | COAST YUKI (UKHOTNO'M) |
| Language: | Yukian |
| Family: | Yukian |
| Stock: | Yukian |
| Phylum: | Macro-Penutian |
| Macro-Culture: | Kuksu |
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| The Coast Yuki were a sedentary hunter/ gatherer tribe. They occupied the coast from Cleone to about Rockport and inland to the ridges before the Eel River. The tribe was destroyed by gold rush era miners and settlers. There may be a few descendants in the area of Round Valley. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| 29 villages |
| Present Locations |
| Extinct as a culture |
| Year | History |
| 1850 | Gold rush, miners and settlers encroached into territory |
| 1862 | Squatters took over 80% of Round Valley Reservation killing many of tribe |
| 1871 | Episcopal mission, day school at Round Valley |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1700 | 500 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1770 | 500 | Kroeber estimate |
| 1800 | 500 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1910 | 15 | Census |
| 1926 | 4 | Gifford estimate |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Huchnom, Yuki |
| Coast Yuki Sites |
| Yuki - SFSU Narrative http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/Native%20Web%20Pages/yukians.html |
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