Yuki

The Yuki are an Indigenous people of northern California whose homeland centered on Round Valley and spread across much of Mendocino and Lake counties. They comprised the Valley People of Round Valley, the Huchnom outside it, and the Coast Yuki; the name Yuki may come from a Wintu word for foreigner.

They had lived in the region for thousands of years. Their language, together with Wappo, makes up the small Yukian family, and they counted in fours, using the spaces between the fingers.

They lived in conical earth-covered houses, built semi-subterranean dance houses, and ate acorn mush, deer and salmon. Their creator was Taikomol, the one who travels alone, attended by Coyote. No mission or outside settler had reached Round Valley by 1837.