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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Wiyot
| image            = Wiyot_map_with_locator.svg
| caption          = Map of Wiyot villages and dialects
| population       = 450<ref name=sdsu/>
| popplace         = {{Flag|United States}} ({{Flag|California}})
| rels             = 
| langs            = [[English language|English]], historically [[Wiyot language|Wiyot]]
| related          = [[Yurok]]
| native_name      = Ku'wil, meaning "the People"
}}

The '''Wiyot''' ([[Wiyot language|Wiyot]]: '''Wíyot''',<ref name="Teeter">{{cite book |author=Teeter |first=Karl V. |title=The Wiyot Language |publisher=University of California press |year=1964}}</ref> [[Tolowa language|Chetco-Tolowa]]: '''Wee-'at xee-she'''<ref>{{Cite web|title = Siletz Talking Dictionary|access-date = 2012-06-04|url = http://siletz.swarthmore.edu/?entry=8940}}</ref> or '''Wee-yan' Xee-she'''', [[Tututni language|Euchre Creek Tututni]]: '''Wii-yat-dv-ne''' – "Mad River People", [[Yurok language|Yurok]]: '''Weyet'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robins |first=R. H. |url=https://archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_yur_book-1#page/n0/mode/2up |title=The Yurok Language: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon |year=1958 |series=University of California Publications in Linguistics |access-date=2012-07-07}}</ref>) are an [[indigenous people of California]] living near [[Humboldt Bay]], [[California]] and a small surrounding area. They are culturally similar to the [[Yurok people]] (Wiyot term: ''Hiktok''). They called themselves simply '''Ku'wil''', meaning "the People".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wiyot Language Database |url=http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~wiyot/dictionary.html# |access-date=2023-07-16 |website=linguistics.berkeley.edu}}</ref> Today, there are approximately 450 Wiyot people. They are enrolled in several [[federally recognized tribes]], such as the [[Wiyot Tribe]] (also known as the [[Table Bluff Reservation—Wiyot Tribe]]), [[Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria]], [[Blue Lake Rancheria]], and the [[Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria]].<ref name=sdsu>[http://library.sdsu.edu/guides/sub2.php?id=195&pg=197 "Wiyot Indians."] ''SDSU: California Indians and Their Reservations.'' Retrieved 25 June 2012.</ref>

==History==
The Wiyot and Yurok are the westernmost people <!-- see talk page --> to speak an [[Algic languages|Algic]] language. Their languages, [[Wiyot language|Wiyot]] and [[Yurok language|Yurok]], are distantly related to the [[Algonquian languages]]. The Wiyot people's traditional homeland ranged from [[Mad River (California)|Mad River]] (Wiyot name: ''potawot'') through Humboldt Bay (including the present cities of [[Eureka, California|Eureka]] and [[Arcata, California|Arcata]]) to the lower [[Eel River (California)|Eel River]] basin. Inland, their territory was heavily forested in ancient redwood. Their stretch of shoreland was mostly sandy, composed of dunes and tidal marsh.<ref>{{cite book |title=Tribes of California |last=Powers |first=Stephen |year=1976 |orig-year= 1877 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA USA |isbn=0-520-03172-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/tribesofcaliforn00step|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/tribesofcaliforn00step/page/101 101]}}</ref>
They recognized three divisions based on dialect and geography (from north to south): 
* the '''Patawat Wiyot''', '''Batawat Wiyot''', '''Mad River Wiyot''' about Mad River (''potawot'') 
* the '''Wiki Wiyot''', '''Humboldt Bay Wiyot''' or '''Wikigadakwi' '''("poor folks") about Humboldt Bay (''wiki'')
* the '''Wiyat Wiyot''' or '''Eel River Wiyot''' about Eel River delta (''wiyat'') 

The Wiyots were among the last indigenous people in California to encounter white settlers. Spanish missions extended only as far north as [[San Francisco Bay]]. Following a brief visit in 1806,<ref name="Davidson">{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=George |url=https://archive.org/details/discoveryhumbol00pacigoog |title=The discovery of Humboldt Bay, California |date=10 March 1891 |publisher=Geographical Society of the Pacific |page=[https://archive.org/details/discoveryhumbol00pacigoog/page/n17 16] |access-date=9 December 2012}}</ref> [[Russia]]n [[fur]] traders, whose 18th-century invasion in search of the [[sea otter]] had devastated the [[Pomo people|Pomo]], were uninterested in the area, which was not a sea-otter habitat. The way of life of the Wiyot people, after many centuries of isolated development, was disrupted by the [[American Old West#Settling the West|settlement of Europeans]]. The [[Josiah Gregg]] exploring party spent the turn of the years 1849–1850 at Humboldt Bay; subsequent to their return to [[San Francisco]] several ships set out to settle the bay.<ref name="Bledsoe">{{cite book|author=Bledsoe, Anthony Jennings|title=Indian Wars of the Northwest: A California Sketch|url=https://archive.org/details/GR_328|year=1885|publisher=Bacon}}</ref> The crew of seafarer Douglass Ottinger became, in 1850, the first Americans to enter Humboldt Bay.<ref name="Bledsoe" /> White settlement followed swiftly.

Fort Humboldt was established on January 30, 1853, by the Army as a buffer between Native Americans, gold-seekers and settlers under the command of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel [[Robert C. Buchanan]] of the [[U.S. 4th Infantry Regiment]].<ref name="Strobridge">{{cite book  | last =Strobridge  | first =William F.  | title =Regulars in the Redwoods: The U.S. Army in Northern California, 1852–1861  | publisher =Arthur H. Clarke Company  | year =1994  | pages =255–257  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=axt6AAAAMAAJ | isbn = 0-87062-214-5 }}</ref> Among the miners, farmers, ranchers and loggers pouring into California, many settled at what is now Eureka. Relationships between the Wiyot and the white colonizers became hostile, marked by raids and vigilante justice.<ref name="LucyThompson">{{cite book |last1=Weitch-Ah-Wah |first1=Che-Na-Wah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5QLAAAAIAAJ |title=To the American Indian: Reminiscenses of a Yurok Woman |last2=Thompson |first2=Lucy |publisher=Heyday Books |year=1991 |isbn=9780598391261 |location=Berkeley, California, USA |pages=217–220 |orig-year=1916}}</ref>

===Massacre===
{{Main|1860 Wiyot Massacre}}
On February 26, 1860, the Wiyot experienced a massacre which devastated their numbers and has remained a pervasive part of their cultural heritage and identity.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/21/california-city-returns-island-taken-from-native-tribe-in-1860-massacre|title=California city returns island taken from native tribe in 1860 massacre|agency=Associated Press|date=2019-10-21|journal=The Guardian|access-date=2019-10-21|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Three days before the massacre, on Washington's birthday, a logging mill engineer from Germany named Robert Gunther bought property on "[[Indian Island (Humboldt Bay)|Indian Island]]".<ref name="Fradkin">{{cite book   | last =Fradkin  | first =Philip L.  | title =The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History  | publisher = University of California Press  | year =1997  | location =Berkeley, California  | pages =474  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=CXXnzJ_wSbMC   | id = 9780520209428 | isbn =9780520209428 }}</ref>[[File:Indian Island Tolowot California.jpg|thumb|Indian Island. View North from Woodley Island Marina at end of Startare Drive showing National Register Marker with Indian Island shell midden on other side of channel.]]The day before the massacre, 25 February, the ''Weekly Humboldt Times'' editorialized: "The Indians are still killing stock of the settlers in the back country and will continue to do so until they are driven from that section, or exterminated"; meanwhile prominent local residents had already formed a vigilante committee to deal with the problem, and were sworn to never reveal their membership.<ref name="Fradkin" />
For several days before the massacre, World Renewal ceremonies were being held at the village of Tuluwat,

<ref name="Wiyot Tribe">{{cite web|title=Tuluwat Project|publisher=Wiyot Tribe|url=http://www.wiyot.com/tuluwat-project|access-date = 12 October 2012}}</ref> on Indian Island<ref name="LucyThompson" />{{rp|220}}<ref name="Paul McHugh">{{cite news |author=McHugh |first=Paul |date=September 20, 2005 |title=The North Coast: A Kayak Adventure Going Home Again |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/THE-NORTH-COAST-A-Kayak-Adventure-GOING-HOME-2607689.php |access-date=December 27, 2013}}</ref> less than a mile offshore from Eureka in Humboldt Bay. Up to 250 Wiyot participated in the ceremonies.<ref name="Fradkin" /> The leader of the Humboldt Bay Wiyots was Captain Jim. He organized and led the ceremony to start a new year.

A group of white men came to the island in the early morning after the last ceremony was completed and most of the Indian men had left the island, leaving only women and children. The whites were armed with hatchets, clubs and knives<ref name = "LucyThompson" />{{rp|220}} and had left their guns behind so the noise of the slaughter would be only screams rather than gunshots. This was not the only massacre that took place that night. Two other village sites were raided, on the Eel River and on the South Spit. Reports of the number of Wiyots killed that night vary from 80 to 200; they were mostly women and children, who were apart from the men conducting ceremonies. There was one survivor of the massacred group on Tuluwat, an infant named Jerry James.<ref>{{cite book |title=California Fault |last=Clarke |first=Thurston |year=1996 |url=https://archive.org/details/californiafault00thur |url-access=registration |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/californiafault00thur/page/36 36] |isbn=9780345409089 }}</ref>

Gunther had been asleep on the mainland across Humboldt Bay from the Island and had awakened to what he thought were screams, but went back to sleep. The next morning he was awakened by the Justice of the Peace who went with Gunther to inspect the Island following reports that Indians had been killed. He was appalled by what he saw, recalling " …what a sight presented itself to our eyes. Corpses lying all around, and all women and children, but two. Most of them had their skulls split. One old Indian, who looked to be a hundred years old, had his skull split, and still he sat there shivering".<ref name="Genzoli82">{{cite journal
  | last =Genzoli  | first =Andrew  | title =Robert Gunther's Account of Indian Island  | journal =Humboldt Historian  | volume =July–August  | pages = 6–7  | year = 1982  |quote = Gunther reported a survivor's description: She said she saw them coming.  She ran to the shanties and halloed that white men were coming and the Indians got out as fast as they could.  She stood on a low place as they came up the bank and she saw them distinctly against the sky, and she thought there were six or seven.   When she saw they came to kill them, she ran for the brush which was close by, and everybody else ran.  All the men got into the brush but two, but the women and children were killed.  The white men did not dare to go into the brush, but left after they killed all they could find.}}</ref> Gunther initially desired to bring the guilty to justice, but learned "We soon found that we had better keep our mouths shut."<ref name="Fradkin"/>

Three other attacks on Indian settlements took place within two days: at the South Spit (Eureka), at South Fork Eel River (Rohnerville), and at Eagle Prairie (Rio Dell). Gunther said, "It was never publicly known who did the killing, yet secretly the parties were pointed out."<ref name="Fradkin"/>

The 1860 massacre was well documented historically and was reported in [[San Francisco]] and [[New York City]] by the young American writer [[Bret Harte]]. Harte was working as a printer's helper and assistant editor at a local newspaper at the time, and his boss was temporarily absent, leaving Harte in charge of the paper. Harte published a detailed account condemning the event, writing, "a more shocking and revolting spectacle never was exhibited to the eyes of a Christian and civilized people. Old women wrinkled and decrepit lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long grey hair. Infants scarcely a span along, with their faces cloven with hatchets and their bodies ghastly with wounds."<ref name="Scharnhorst">{{cite book  | last =Scharnhorst  | first =Gary     | title =Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West  | publisher =University of Oklahoma Press  | year =2000  | pages =256  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=xXbl9lZcW_YC&pg=PA13  | access-date = 22 December 2012|quote = Harte was threatened and in danger of mob violence and left for San Francisco in March 1860 by the steamer ''Columbia''.  Anonymous letters in the San Francisco press relating to the massacre are credited to him.  Events surrounding the massacre are in his short story ''Three Vagabonds of Trinidad'' (1900).| isbn =9780806132549 }}</ref>

Major [[Gabriel J. Rains]] (sometimes spelled "Raines"), commander of [[Fort Humboldt State Historic Park|Fort Humboldt]], reported on the massacre to his superiors that "Captain Wright's Company [of [[vigilante]]s] held a meeting at [[Eel River (California)|Eel River]] and resolved to kill every peaceable Indian – man, woman, and child."<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Carranco | first1 = Lynwood | last2 = Beard | first2 = Estle | title = Genocide and Vendetta: The Round Valley Wars of Northern California | publisher = University of Oklahoma Press|url=https://archive.org/details/genocidevendetta00carr | url-access = registration | year = 1981 | pages= [https://archive.org/details/genocidevendetta00carr/page/129 129]–130| isbn = 9780806115498 }}</ref> The vigilantes were also known as the "[[Humboldt Volunteers]], Second Brigade," reported to have organized at [[Hydesville, California|Hydesville]] (the town called "Eel River" by Major Rains is now named [[Rohnerville, California|Rohnerville]]). Gaines reported that around five men had formed a volunteer squad to murder the sleeping women and children on the island. In his army reports, appalled at the massacres and at the openly discussed aims of the local white settlers to kill the Wiyot, he stated there were 55 killed at Indian Island, 40 on South Fork Eel River, and 35 at Eagle Prairie.<ref>{{cite book |title=When the Great Spirit Died: The destruction of the California Indians, 1850–1860 |last=Secrest |first=William B. |year=2002  |publisher=Quill Driver Books |location=Fresno, California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2q-Z_dV9yqIC |page=36 |isbn=9781884995408 }}</ref> South Fork Eel River became [[Rohnerville, California|Rohnerville]] and was later annexed by [[Fortuna, California|Fortuna]]; Eagle Prairie is now the site of the town of [[Rio Dell]].<ref name = "Irving, 1915">{{cite book  | last = Irvine | first = Leigh H.   | title =History of Humboldt County, California with Biographical Sketches  | publisher = Historic Record Company  | year =1915  | location =Los Angeles, California  | url =https://archive.org/details/historyofhumbold00irvi|access-date = 16 September 2012 }}</ref>

Meanwhile, ''The Humboldt Times'' newspaper editorialized, "For the past four years we have advocated two—and only two—alternatives for ridding our country of Indians: either remove them to some reservation or kill them. The loss of life and destruction of property by the Indians for ten years past has not failed to convince every sensitive man that the two races cannot live together, and the recent desperate and bloody demonstrations on Indian Island and elsewhere is proof that the time has arrived that either the pale face or the savage must yield the ground."<ref name="HumTimes">{{cite news |date=17 March 1860 |title=Indian Troubles: A change of sentiment |page=2, column 2 |pages= |work=Weekly Humboldt Times |publisher=Weekly Humboldt Times, Union (Arcata), California |url=http://calindianhistory.org/DocsNews/1860/03_17_1860Troubles.pdf |access-date=22 December 2012}}</ref>

The ''Times'' apparently represented the mainstream opinion in the area at the time. An investigation failed to identify a single perpetrator, although those who did the killing were rumored to be well known. Although a grand jury summoned witnesses and held hearings, no one was indicted.<ref name="Fradkin"/> Harte was threatened and in danger of mob violence.<ref name="Scharnhorst" /> He quit his job and left Union in March 1860 by the steamer ''Columbia'' for San Francisco,<ref name="Scharnhorst"/> where an anonymous letter published in a city paper is attributed to him, describing widespread community approval of the massacre.[[File:Last_Wiyot_Vigil_2014.jpg|thumb|Wiyot elders in 2014 at a vigil memorializing the [[1860 Wiyot Massacre]]]]The Wiyot people were thus decimated. They were corralled at Fort Humboldt for protection however many died there.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rohde |first=Jerry |date=September 1, 2022 |title=This Land Is Their Land |language=en-us |page=8 |work=The Ferndale Enterprise}}</ref> Survivors were herded mostly to Round Valley, established as an [[Indian reservation]] within California, but they kept escaping and returning to their homeland.

===Population decline===
By 1850, there were about 2,000 Wiyot and [[Karok]] people living within this area. After 1860, there were an estimated 200 people left. By 1910, there were fewer than 100 full-blood Wiyot people living within their ancestral territory. This rapid decline in population occurred due to [[disease]], [[slavery]], target practice, protection, being herded from place to place (survivors' descendants describe this as "death marches"), and massacres.

Memorials have been held annually at Tuluwat village, on what is now known as [[Tuluwat Island]], since 1992, and a major cultural and environmental restoration project is underway there.<ref name="Paul McHugh"/> More recently, the long-awaited World Renewal Ceremony has returned to the island, and is in the process of being revived by current tribal members. This event is private and central to Wiyot cultural beliefs.

===Reservation===
{{Main|Table Bluff Rancheria}}
In 2000, the Wiyot established the Table Bluff Reservation on {{convert|88|acre|m2}} of their homeland. The reservation is {{convert|16|mi|km}} south of [[Eureka, California|Eureka]] between Loleta and the South Jetty of Humboldt Bay. Some 350 people are enrolled in the Table Bluff Reservation – Wiyot Tribe. "Table Bluff Rancheria of Wiyot Indians of California" is the name under which the [[United States]] [[federal government]] previously listed the Table Bluff Reservation in the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]] list of [[federally recognized tribes]];<ref name="DOI">{{cite book  | last =U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs  | title =Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs  | work =Federal Register 60 Fed. Reg. 9249  | publisher =U.S. Congress  | volume = 60  | number = 32  | date =February 16, 1995  | url =http://www.wais.access.gpo.gov  | pages = 9249–9255   }}</ref> "Table Bluff Reservation – Wiyot Tribe" is the current designation.<ref name="DOI" /> Some people of Wiyot descent are enrolled in the Bear River Rancheria.

Since October 2019, the Wiyot have had the land deed to most of [[Indian Island (Humboldt Bay)|Indian Island]], which previously was owned by the City of Eureka.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Associated Press |title=Native American tribe regains island taken after 1860 massacre |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/native-american-tribe-regains-island-calls-centre-universe-191021155636740.html |access-date=2019-10-22 |website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref>

==Culture and religion==
The last documented native speaker of Wiyot died in 1962. The Wiyot tribal government is in the process of reviving the language.

The people ate mostly clams and [[acorn]]s, and made long, carved, log [[canoe]]s. Healers and ceremonial leaders were mostly women, who received their powers on mountaintops during the night.

The Wiyot religion shares much in common with that of the neighboring Yurok with certain differences.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Curtis |first=Edward S. |title=The North American Indian |publisher=Plimpton Press |year=1907–1930 |volume=13 |location=Norwood, Massachusetts |pages=190–198 |language=en-us}}</ref>

A central act in the Wiyot people's spirituality is an annual World Renewal Ceremony held at Tuluwat village. Indian Island, formerly called Duluwat Island, was and is the center of the Wiyot world.<ref name="Paul McHugh"/> On the island, at the start of each year, a ceremonial dance called the World Renewal ceremony was held, which lasted seven to ten days. Ceremonial masks were worn during the dance. All people were welcomed; no one was turned away. It was held at the village site of Tuluwat on the northern part of the island. Traditionally the men would leave the island and return the next day with the day's supplies. The elders, women and children were left to rest on the island along with a few men.

==Population==
{{further|Population of Native California}}
[[Alfred L. Kroeber]] put the 1770 population of the Wiyot at 1,000.<ref name="Kroeber1925">{{cite book  | last =Kroeber  | first =A. L.  | title =Handbook of the Indians of California  | publisher =Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78  | year =1925  | location = Washington, D.C. | pages =883  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=YDdn0WNMQMYC|access-date = December 27, 2013 | isbn =9780486233680 }}</ref>{{rp|883}} [[Sherburne F. Cook]] initially offered an estimate of 1,500 <ref>{{cite journal  | last =Cook  | first =Sherburne Friend  | title =The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California
  | journal =Anthropological Record, University of California, Berkeley  | volume =16  | pages = 81–130  | year = 1956  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=sc0_AgAAQBAJ  | access-date = December 27, 2013 }}</ref>{{rp|167}} but subsequently raised this to 3,300.<ref>{{cite book | last =Cook  | first =Sherburne Friend   | title =The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization  | publisher =University of California Press  | year =1976  | location = Berkeley, California  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/conflictbetweenc0000cook_r5y2/page/93 93]  | url = https://archive.org/details/conflictbetweenc0000cook_r5y2  | url-access =registration  | isbn =9780520031425 }}</ref>{{rp|93}} Kroeber reported the population of the Wiyot in 1910 as 100.<ref name="Kroeber1925" />

The Wiyot suffered a devastating onslaught of violence by American settlers in the 1850s and 1860s, wiping out the majority of those alive in 1850 and dispossessing them of their lands.<ref name="Paul McHugh"/> Surviving members of the tribe intermarried with neighboring groups, including the Yurok. About 500 Wiyot live in Northern California today, still well below their mid-19th century population of 2,000.

==Recent events==
In a step towards making amends, in June 2004 the Eureka City Council transferred {{convert|40|acre|m2}} of [[Gunther Island|Indian Island]] back to the Wiyot tribe, to add to {{convert|1.5|acre|m2}} the Wiyot had purchased.<ref name="NCJ">{{cite news |last1=Doran |first1=Bob |last2=McVicar |first2=Gregg |date=July 1, 2004 |title=The Return of Indian Island: Restoring the center of the Wiyot world |pages=1– |publisher=North Coast Journal |location=Eureka, California |url=http://www.northcoastjournal.com/070104/cover0701.html |access-date=December 27, 2013}}</ref> The council also transferred {{convert|60|acre|m2}} on the northeast tip of the {{convert|275|acre|km2|adj=on}} island on May 18, 2006.<ref name="Paul McHugh"/>

Tuluwat, the sacred Wiyot village of Indian Island, is currently being restored by the Wiyot tribe. Eureka businesses have stepped forward to donate supplies and trash barges, and the citizens of Eureka have donated to a Tuluwat restoration fund.

In 2013, Wiyot tribe members returned to Indian Island by canoe, and announced plans to hold another World Renewal Ceremony; it will be the first such ceremony to take place on the island since the massacre.<ref name="Donahue">{{cite news   | last =Donahue  | first =Bill  | title =More than 150 years after brutal slaughter, a small tribe returns home  | publisher = Al Jazeera US  | date = December 25, 2013  | url =http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/25/more-than-150-yearsafterbrutalslaughterasmalltribereturnshome.html  | access-date = December 27, 2013  }}</ref>

In 2022, the Wiyot historical culture center opened in Eureka.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 15, 2022 |title=Wiyot cultural center opens |language=en-us |page=2 |work=Times-Standard |publisher=John Richmond |location=Eureka, California}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Wiyot traditional narratives]]

==Notes==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
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*{{official|http://www.wiyot.com/ }}
*[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/28/DDG5Q59D8J1.DTL SF Chronicle article on Wiyot and Tuluwat Island]
*[https://lynette707.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/when-aggressors-became-the-protectors/ NorCal History Blog] Lengthy quotes from Major Rains' letters on the massacres and their aftermath.
*{{cite web |last1=Kroeber & Loud |title=Edited Correspondence from Fieldwork |url=https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/arfs-001-001.pdf |website=University of California Archives |publisher=University of California |access-date=16 November 2019}}
*{{cite journal  | last =Loud  | first =Llewellyn L  | title =Ethnography and archaeology of the Wiyot territory  | journal =University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology  | volume = 14 & 15  | pages =221–436  | year =1918  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=dGEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296  | access-date =  November 16, 2019}}

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