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The changing role of the chief on a California Indian Reservationarticle 1989 • Miller, Virginia P.
Yuki • North America > Northwest Coast and California
In this article, Miller compares the roles of Yuki chiefs in aboriginal times to those on the reservation. Chiefs in both periods provided leadership, arbitrated disputes and coordinated group efforts. Traditional chiefs held considerable power over ...Ukomno'mBook 1979 • Miller, Virginia P.
Yuki • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This is a longer version of document number 13 in which Miller chronicles the systematic destruction of the Yuki by white settlers between 1850 and 1863. The first intruders into the Round Valley, where most of the Yuki lived, saw an opportunity in s...Whatever happened to the Yuki?article 1975 • Miller, Virginia P.
Yuki • North America > Northwest Coast and California
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...Yuki, Huchnom, and Coast Yukiessay 1978 • Miller, Virginia P.
Yuki • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This is the article from the 1978 edition of the Handbook of North American Indians. In it Miller briefly discusses the prehistory, history and culture of the three major Yuki-speaking groups: Yuki, Huchmon and Coast Yuki. Maps and photos are include...