Yahi

The Yahi lived among the creeks and canyons west of the Lassen highlands. Deer Creek runs from forested uplands through a narrow volcanic canyon towards the Sacramento River, while nearby Mill Creek crosses the same rugged country. Salmon and steelhead travel up these streams from the Sacramento, and the slopes hold oak woodland, grassland and forest. The two creeks lie within the ancestral territory of the Yana and Yahi peoples, whose home encompassed this varied landscape between the mountains and the valley.