Sinkyone

The Sinkyone lived along the Eel River and its South Fork, as well as on the rugged coast to the west. Their northern and southern communities spoke related varieties of an Athabaskan language. The Eel River supplied salmon and lamprey, while the people gathered acorns, berries and roots and hunted deer and elk in the forested mountains. Northern communities were known as Lolangkok, after Bull Creek; farther south lay the country of the Shelter Cove Sinkyone.