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Whatever happened to the Yuki?
Indian historian • 8 (2) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 6-12
By: Miller, Virginia P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a harrowing account of the systematically carried out extermination of the Yuki Indians in the Round Valley of Northern California. The Boers could not have done a better job. Estimates of the Yuki population prior to European contact in 1853 were between 2,000 and 12,000, the most recent estimate by Cook (1956) put at 6,880. At the turn of the century only one hundred were alive. What happened? Miller relates the exploits of the Eel River Rangers, who carried out a relentless campaign of genocide against the Yuki. When the company was disbanded in 1860, only 300 Yuki were left in the valley.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mortality
- External relations
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yuki
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1854-1925
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mendocino County, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Virginia P. Miller
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 12)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sv 88020751
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuki Indians