Wiyot

The Wiyot were a sedentary coastal hunter/gatherer tribe that relied heavily on fishing. They were located on Humbolt Bay and on the lower Eel and Mad Rivers. They are linguistically related only to the Yurok in a stock in which there is some question if it is related to the Algonquian. They were almost destroyed in several massacres by Whites.

Year	*History*
1850	Influx of settlers brought by the gold rush, conflicts followed
1851	Gold rush in Wiyot territory from minor discovery at Gold Bluffs
1860	80 to 100 women and children massacred by a Eureka gang of militia supported by merchants on Indian Island; several earlier massacres by Whites all but destroyed tribe; survivors interred at Fort Humboldt and then removed to distant reservations, many returned to aboriginal territory
1908	Table Bluff Rancheria established, 20 acres gifted by a local church
1953	Tribes terminated via Public Law 280
1981	Rancheria recognized;102 acres purchased nearby by federal government as part of a lawsuit settlement
1982	Established tribal constitution

Year	Population	Source
	1,500	Cook aboriginal estimate
1700	1,200	NAHDB calculation
1770	1,000	Kroeber estimate
1800	1,000	NAHDB calculation
1880	200	Cook estimate
1900	150	NAHDB calculation
1910	100	Census
1955	62	Weybret et al estimate
1968	131	Levine and Lurie estimate
1989	226	BIA
2000	250	NAHDB calculation

Wiyot Sites

In 1860 Six Murderers ... http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/28/DDG5Q59D8J1.DTL

Blue Lake Casino http://www.bluelakecasino.com/

Blue Lake Rancheria http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/basket/wiyot/wiyot.htm

California Tribal River Summit http://www.wiyot.us/River_Summit.htm

Ethnography and Archeology of the Wiyot Territory http://www.originalvoices.org/PriceOfGoldEight.htm

The Gold Rush Legacy: Greed, Pollution, and Genocide http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/spring98/sp98g_wr.htm

Gunther Island Site http://www.californiaprehistory.com/reports01/rep0007.html

A History of Massacres http://www.1849.org/ggg/massacres.html

Karuk/Wiyot Lidded Gift Basket http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/hermind/e025.html

Karuk/Wiyot Woman's Ceremonial Cap http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/hermind/e022.html

Karuk/Wiyot Women http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/hermind/e036.html

Northwest California Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_california-oregon_culture.htm

Sacred Site Fund http://www.wiyot.com/fund.htm

Table Bluff Tribe and Community http://www.indiancanyon.org/wiyot1.html

Tuluwat Village: Sacred Land Restored to Wiyot Tribe http://www.humguide.com/seniornews/issues/0407d.shtml

Wiyot http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Wiyot.html

Wiyot Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t232

Wiyot Basket http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/registration/73277.html

Wiyot Bibliography http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/bibs/wiyot.html

Wiyot Food Basket http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb429008bd/

Wiyot Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WIY

Wiyot Language http://www.native-languages.org/wiyot.htm

Wiyot Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=WIY

Wiyot Man's Hat http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb0870072v/?query=&brand=calisphere

Wiyot - SFSU Narrative http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/NativeWebPages/wiyot.html

Wiyot Student project http://www.humboldt.k12.ca.us/sobay_sd/pinehill/studentwork/gate/local_history/wiyot.htm

Wiyot Tribal History http://www.ics.uci.edu/~aisi/97_aisics/people/sjohnson/mytribepg.html

Wiyot Tribe http://www.wiyot.com/

Wiyot Will Dance Again on Indian Island http://www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov/coast&ocean/spring2000/pages/psix.htm

Wiyot Woman's Ceremonial Cap http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/hermind/e019.html

*Ethnie:*	WIYOT
*Language:*	Wiyot
*Family:*	Wiyot
*Stock:*	Ritwan
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwest