Huchnom
|
|
FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Huchnom |
| Ethnie: | HUCHNOM (REDWOODS) |
| Language: | Yukian |
| Family: | Yukian |
| Stock: | Yukian |
| Phylum: | Macro-Penutian |
| Macro-Culture: | Kuksu |
| x |
| The Huchnom were a sedentary hunter/gatherer tribe. They were located in the valley of the south Eel River and its tributaries from Hullville nearly to its mouth. The tribe was destroyed by White settlers. Remnants have intermarried into the Pomo and some of the tribes at Round Valley. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| 13 villages |
| Present Locations |
| Extinct as a culture with descendants in Round Valley, CA |
| Year | History |
| 1838 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1850 | Influx of prospectors and settlers, smallpox epidemic |
| 1869 | Some removed to Round Valley, cattle destroyed, took up poaching, extermination of tribe began by settlers |
| 1871 | Episcopal mission at Round Valley |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1700 | 500 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1770 | 500 | Kroeber estimate |
| 1800 | 350 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1870 | 79 | ARCIA |
| 1880 | 50 | Census |
| 1900 | 50 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1907 | 7 | Foster |
| 1973 | 1 | BIA |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Coast Yuki, Yuki |
| Huchnom Sites |
| Yukian - SFSU Narrative http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/Native%20Web%20Pages/yukians.html |