Yuki people
The Yuki are a North American Indian tribe, and inhabit the area around the Valley Round Valley in Mendocino County, Northern California, but settled tribes of Yuki too far south to Hood Mountain in present-day Sonoma County. In their eponymous language Yuki but they call themselves Ukomno'm - ' Valley People ' - ' people in the valley '. However, Americans first met on their eastern neighbors and rivals, the Nomlaki (also Noamlakee, Central Wintun Nomelaki ) and took their name Yuki ( ' enemies ') as the name. Yuki is therefore an exonym, ie a name for a group of mostly foreign-language a different group.
In the past they were a nation of sedentary hunters and gatherers, but often ( armed ) had conflicts with their neighbors. Due to the white settlement of America, the strain was hit by a smallpox epidemic in 1838. 1870, the valley was declared a reserve, settlers were forced to leave the valley, new settlers were not allowed to settle. However, other Indians were brought in the reserve, such as the Pomo or Lassik. Before European settlement, one can start from a population of about 6000 m to 12,000 Yuki, the values are very inaccurate. In 1860 there were only about 600 inhabitants, since 1900, going from about 100 Yuki out. The population decline in the 19th century is also due to genocide.
The Yuki were indeed matrilineal, their society was still a patriarchy. Also, polygamy was partially spread. The Yuki consisted of various sub- tribes. The largest were the Ukomno'm, there was also, among other things Ta'no'm, Huititno'm, Sukshaltatano'm, Onkolukomno'm and Witukomno'm.
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- Round Valley (English )
- Short information and links (English )
- Google Books: Adolf Ellegard Jensen: Myth, Man and Environment
- Google Books: Russell Thornton: American Indian Holocaust and Survival (English )
- Indian tribe in California