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	Algic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The other Algic languages are the Yurok and Wiyot languages of northwestern California.
		Wiyot, Miami, Illinois, Etchemin, Loup A, Loup B, Mahican, Massachusett, Mohegan, Pequot, Nanticoke, Narragansett, Pamlico, Powhatan, Quiripi, Naugatuck, Unami, Unquachog, and Shinnecock are now extinct.
		Wiyot and Yurok do not seem to be any more similar to each other than either language is to Algonquian languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Algic_languages (261 words)

	Wiyot language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Wiyot (also Wishosk) is an extinct (Click link for more info and facts about Algic) Algic language.
		"Wiyot is from wíyat, the native name for the Eel River delta, which also referred to one of the three principal groups of Wiyots (Elsasser 1978:162).
		The Wiyot (earlier called Wishosk) lived in the Humboldt Bay area, in the redwood belt; the last fully fluent speaker died in 1962 (Teeter 1964b).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wiyot_language.htm (224 words)

	Wiyot Tribe of California Table Bluff - Eureka - September 16, 1996
		It is the intention of the Wiyot to hold the vigil at some point on the nearby real Indian Island, which at the present time is inaccessible to us.
		A Wiyot elder lights their candle from the fire and from that candle all candles are lighted.
		For their protection, the Wiyot people were corralled at Fort Humboldt.
	www.indiancanyon.org /wiyot1.html (925 words)

	Wiyot Tribe History and Culture
		Early on the cool winter morning of February 26, 1860, a group of settlers armed with hatchets, clubs and knives (they left their guns behind so that their presence on the Island would not be know to the nearby neighbors in Eureka) paddled to what is now known as Indian Island.
		There, sleeping Wiyot men, women and children, exhausted from a week of ceremonial dance were caught unaware and brutally slain.
		It is the intention of the Wiyot to hold the vigil at some point on Indian Island, which at the present time is inaccessible to the Tribe.
	www.wiyot.com /history.htm (1339 words)

	Facts for Kids: Wiyot Indians (Wiyots, Weott)
		We encourage students, especially older kids, to look through our Wiyot language and culture pages for more in-depth information about the tribe, but here are some straightforward answers to the questions we are most often asked by children, with Wiyot pictures and links we believe are especially suitable for all ages.
		Wiyot descendents live together with Yurok, Hupa, Tolowa, and Mattole Indians on four rancherias, small parcels of land over which California Indians have partial control.
		Wiyot artists are known for their fine basketry and woodcarving arts.
	www.geocities.com /bigorrin/wiyot_kids.htm (1082 words)

	Wiyot (Blue Lake, Northern California) Tribal Council Page
		Wiyot reservation lands -- Blue Lake, Table Bluff and Rohnerville -- are still located within their traditional homeland, shown in light yellow, near the Oregon border.
		This is a family photo, taken when Jerry James, the massacre survivor, was a young man. (See Wiyot People page for interview with Irving James, Jerry's son.) The massacre is thus not ancient history to the Wiyot, but is recalled in family stories from grandparents' days -- though most of the grandparents actually died there.
		It is the intention of the Wiyot to hold the vigil on Indian Island, which is currently inaccessible.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/art/basket/wiyot/wiyot.htm (1621 words)

	Alliance of California Tribes - Member Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		During the 1850s, the Wiyot were not only forced out of their traditional territory, but were killed in large numbers by Euro-American settlers.
		On February 25, 1860, the Wiyot experienced a tragedy which not only devastated their numbers but has remained a pervasive part of their cultural heritage and identity.
		WIYOT - The traditional lands of the Wiyot people are located on the far northwest coast of California, along the shores of Humboldt Bay and the mouths of the Mad and Eel rivers.
	www.allianceofcatribes.org /bluelake.htm (883 words)

	North Coast Journal - July 1, 2004: COVER STORY - The Return of Indian Island - Restoring the center of the Wiyot world
		Joe McGinnis, a Wiyot from the Bear Creek branch of the tribe, was among those waiting for the boats to arrive.
		There was only an infant found [alive] the next morning, under his mother, and an old woman, "shiroke," [Wiyot for old woman] who got herself quagmired in the mud, singing a mourning song, mourning the people who were killed that night; and [there were] two young adolescents, teenagers, and one toddler [found alive].
		A lot of the families are not all Wiyot, because people marry outside of their tribe and some children are on different [tribal] rolls.
	www.northcoastjournal.com /070104/cover0701.html (3566 words)

	In 1860 six murderers nearly wiped out the Wiyot Indian tribe -- in 2004 its members have found ways to heal
		But the Wiyot tribe, denied federal recognition in 1953, regained it in 1990, and moved to a new reservation at Table Bluff, south of Eureka's city center, where 450 tribal members now live.
		Marnie Atkins, Wiyot cultural director, is hoping to attend the Breath of Life conference at UC Berkeley for the second time in June, where she will be paired with a linguist to investigate the archives.
		With what Wiyot words she learned, she created her "coming home" song, which she sang at the end of a PBS airing of a documentary on American Indian sacred sites produced by San Francisco's Sacred Land Film Project.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/28/DDG5Q59D8J1.DTL (2189 words)

	Wiyot Blue Lake, (Northern California) People, Community
		She works with materials from the abundant forests of the California northwest coastal lands, traditional Wiyot territory, She leads training in methods and art of the basketweaver's art.
		Th rdwood forest supplied numerous roots for weft and color -- young redwood roots peeled and split supplied a nice rd-brown; pine and spruce roots were also useed for lighter colors.
		He presntly lives in Table Bluff, a parcel of Wiyot land that is near the seacoast.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/art/basket/wiyot/wypeople.htm (323 words)

	Friends Of The Dunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Wiyot territory extends from Little River to Bear River and as far east as the prairies of Kneeland.
		Today, Wiyot people still fish and gather in some areas around the bay, but land usage has changed, and many of the plants once collected are not in the abundance they once were.
		The Wiyot are actively involved in protecting areas for gathering as well as establishing economic, health and educational projects and revitalizing aspects of traditional culture such as language, ceremonies and the arts.
	www.friendsofthedunes.org /fod.natural.history.shtml (1613 words)

	History of Arcata, Sunset Fourth Grade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was in the oral tradition, from one generation to the next, that the indigenous people, the Wiyots, passed on their history and culture.
		The word Wiyot means "where the rivers meet." Their villages were at Indian Island, Blue Lake, Little River, the South and North Spit, and Table Bluff.
		The Wiyot's neighbors were the Yuroks in the north, the Sinkone to the East.
	www.northcoast.com /~bbn/trump2/trump_text.html (3703 words)

	Wiyot Language and the Wiyot Indian Tribe (Weott)
		Sadly, its last native speaker died in 1962, but some members of the Wiyot tribe are trying to revive the language from audio recordings for cultural purposes.
		Wiyot is related to Yurok but not to the other languages of Northern California--known to linguists as the Ritwan languages, Wiyot and Yurok are actually distant relatives of Algonquian languages like Ojibway and Cree.
		There are about 500 Wiyot Indians in Northern California today; in some places, they have merged with their neighbors the Yurok.
	www.native-languages.org /wiyot.htm (452 words)

	Wiyot
		Wiyot was the creator god of certain California Indians.
		At Wiyot's funeral, Coyote jumped onto the pyre and tore off a piece of Wiyot's flesh, eating it.
		Article "Wiyot" created on 24 May 1999; last modified on 31 July 2001 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/w/wiyot.html (51 words)

	The Wiyot: Completing the Circle « Terrain Magazine, Fall 2000 « Ecology Center
		Cheryl is justly proud of these accomplishments, but for her the linchpin of the cultural revival efforts is yet to come — regaining control of at least part of Indian Island.
		For the past several years, members of the community have held candlelight vigils to commemorate the massacre of their ancestors, to bring into the present the consciousness of that event and knowledge of its consequences to the Wiyot people.
		She feels that this is a necessary "gift to the kids, to give them a future, so they will know who they are." Once the land is purchased, she hopes others will come along to restore the ceremonies and the dances.
	www.ecologycenter.org /terrain/article.php?id=13136 (962 words)

	Two Myths of the Mission Indians: The Origin of the World
		Wiyot, however, knew most of all, and therefore some of the people did not like him.
		Wiyot died at Tova near Maronge, north of the San Jacinto Mountains where the Serrano (Maringayam) live.
		Wiyot said: "You see that Coyote constantly wants to eat me. When I die there will be a great fire far off in the east.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/ca/tmmi/tmmi03.htm (725 words)

	youreka.org >> explore your city! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Wiyot villages were scattered all around Wiki ("Humboldt Bay"), the Wiyot ("Eel River") delta and Potowat ("Mad River").
		The best-known single violent incident was the massacre of most of the Wiyot people in 1860 as they were gathered for their most important religious event, the World Renewal Ceremony, which had to be performed to keep the world in balance.
		The Wiyot hold a commemoration ceremony each year at the Woodley Island Marina (the fourth Saturday of February) to remember those who have gone before and to celebrate life and healing.
	www.youreka.org /detail.asp?artID=18 (738 words)

	North Coast Texts
		Partly as a result of the historically notorious slaughter of the majority of surviving Wiyot on one night in 1860, the Wiyot were in most imminent danger of dying out as a culture and a people.
		And the Wiyot said, this is what we want..." She spoke of the Wiyots' desire to have all 175 acres of the island back eventually.
		As late as 1996, correspondent Fergus Bordewich wrote, "Little is known about the Wiyots." But the Wiyot tribe, denied federal recognition in 1953, regained it in 1990, and moved to a new reservation at Table Bluff, south of Eureka's city center, where some 450 tribal members now live.
	northcoasttexts.blogspot.com (8189 words)

	Indian Life: Massacre site given to Wiyot tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Indian Island passed out of Wiyot control on the dark night in 1860 when a massacre on the Island, coordinated with massacres at two other village sites around the bay, dealt a crushing blow to the Wiyot people.
		The Wiyot Tribe returned to the Island in 2000, with the purchase of a 1.5 acre parcel.
		Chairperson of the Wiyot Tribe, Cheryl Seidner, credits the reconciliation conference at the First Baptist Church in Arcata three years ago for creating an atmosphere that made this historic event possible.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JJC/is_1_25/ai_n6361563 (909 words)

	Copyright Original Voices, 1999
		And the Wiyots, that's the name that group of people (settlers) decided would be the whole name for the area.
		It was said at the time that the Wiyot men hid in the bushes and the trees and swam to shore and never helped protect the Wiyot people.
		I kind of look at us (Wiyot) as a buffer zone, because you look at the Karuks, and the Yuroks, and the Hupas, they still have their culture pretty much intact.
	www.originalvoices.org /PriceOfGoldEight.htm (2565 words)

	Wiyot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Presently some Wiyot live on the Rohnerville and Blue Lake Rancherias.
		(Eargle: 1986) Formerly the Wiyot gathered clams, took salmon from the rivers, hunted for sea-lions and fished in the sea.
		The Wiyot gave dugout canoes to the Mattole and got tobacco and abalone shells.
	bss.sfsu.edu /calstudies/NativeWebPages/wiyot.html (142 words)

	Wiyot Indian Island Sacred Fund Cruise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		For hundreds of years in the village of Tuluwat, on what is now called Indian Island, Wiyot people held an annual world renewal ceremony to ask the creator to bless all people and the land in preparation for the new year.
		This age old tradition was terminated in the wee hours of February 26, 1860 when sleeping men, women, and children who had participated in the dance the night before were brutally slain.
		The Table Bluff Reservation - Wiyot Tribe is inviting you to support their efforts to purchase portions of Indian Island and return the ancestral Wiyot center of the world to its people.
	www.indiancanyon.org /WiyotSacredFund.html (410 words)

	Directory - Society: Ethnicity: The Americas: Indigenous: Native Americans: Tribes, Nations and Bands: W: Wiyot
		Wiyot Tribe · cached · Official site offers tribal news, history, a sacred site fund, and information about social services.
		Wiyot Tribe of California Table Bluff · cached · News, events, and information about the Wiyot Indian Table Bluff tribe and community.
		Wiyot Language and the Wiyot Indian Tribe · cached · Language, culture, history and genealogy.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=471006 (86 words)

	Senior News: July 2004
		In reaction, tribal members ceased to perform their ceremonies and speak their language, hoping to be spared the anger and weapons of the settlers.
		In the 1990s the Tuluwat Village Wiyot Sacred Site Fund was founded in order to recover some of the land for cultural and environmental restoration.
		The 44 acres deeded to the Wiyot on June 25 secures all the acreage east of Samoa Bridge.
	www.humguide.com /seniornews/issues/0407d.shtml (477 words)

	My Tribal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I am Yurok Indian, however I am in the Wiyot Tribe because the Yurok and Wiyot tribes joined (Humbolt county).
		The Wiyot territory is in the Humbolt county area, which starts at Little River and continues down the coast to Bear River, then inland to the first set of mountains.
		Pre 1860 there were approximately 1500 to 2000 Wiyot people living within this area.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~aisi/97_aisics/people/sjohnson/mytribepg.html (554 words)

	Indianz.Com > News > Wiyot chairwoman recognized for achievements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A ceremony on the Table Bluff Reservation in California was held in honor of Cheryl Seidner, the chairwoman of the Wiyot Tribe of California.
		Seidner was hailed for her public service to the tribe and the 1st Assembly District, where she was named Woman of the Year.
		Seidner was instrumental in the recent return of a sacred site on Indian Island, considered the center of the Wiyot universe.
	www.indianz.com /News/2005/007133.asp?print=1 (220 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The first volume is a concordance of the words in the texts in Teeter's The Wiyot Language (1964), combined with a lexical index to the grammar in the same volume.
		The second volume contains word-by-word interlinear translations of the texts in Teeter 1964 and an English index to the concordance and glossary in the first volume.
		Institutional orders must be paid by check drawn on a Canadian bank with $5 per volume added for handling.
	linguistics.buffalo.edu /ssila/learning/wiyot.htm (144 words)

	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.
		Ethnography and Archeology of the Wiyot Territory http://www.originalvoices.org/PriceOfGoldEight.htm
	www.fourdir.com /wiyot.htm (194 words)

	Yurok Language and the Yurok Indian Tribe (Olekwo'l)
		(It should not be confused with the unrelated Siberian language Nenets, sometimes also called "Yurok".) Yurok is related to Wiyot but not to the other languages of Northern California--known to linguists as the Ritwan languages, Wiyot and Yurok are actually distant relatives of Algonquian languages like Ojibway and Cree.
		There are about 3500 Yurok people in Northern California today; in some places, they have merged with their neighbors the Wiyot.
		Thorough bibliography of offline materials on the Wiyot and Yurok languages.
	www.native-languages.org /yurok.htm (315 words)

	The Eureka Reporter... Real News by Real People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Table Bluff Reservation will present the third-annual Wiyot Sacred Site Fund Benefit Concert, which will feature an evening filled with live musical performances that will include a combination of local and national Native American musicians and artists Saturday.
		The Wiyot Sacred Site Fund is a nonprofit organization created by Table Bluff Reservation Wiyot Tribe in an effort to reacquire and environmentally and culturally restore Wiyot sacred sites, which are areas that are culturally and religiously significant to the cultural survival of Wiyot people.
		For other ways to support the Wiyot Sacred Site Fund visit www.wiyot.com/Site_fund.htm.
	www.eurekareporter.com /Stories/fp-02060401.htm (599 words)

	Wiyot Native Americans Massacred
		We still cast a shadow, we are not gone."
		An annual Indian Island Candlelight Vigil is held every Febuary.
		For more information on the vigil and the Wiyot visit:
	www.danielnpaul.com /MassacreOfWiyotNativeAmericans.html (995 words)

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