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YEHL YENNIS 



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Yehl ('raven'). One of the two main 

 divisions or phratries of the Tlingit (q. v. ) 

 of the Alaskan coast. (.i. k. s. ) 



Yehlnaas-hadai ( Ye^l na^as xd^dn-i, 'Ra- 

 ven-house people ' ) . A subdivision of the 

 Yaku-lanas, a Haida family of the Raven 

 clan, probably named from one house, 

 although they occupied a large part of 

 the town of Kweundlas. — Swanton, Cont. 

 Haida, 272, 1905. 



Yatlnas: had' a'i.— Boas, Fifth Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 26, 1889. 



Yehuh. According to Lewis and Clark 

 (Exped., II, 472, 1814) a Chinookan 

 tribe living in 1806 just above the Cas- 

 cades of Columbia r. Nothing more is 

 known of them. See Watlala. 

 Wey-eh-hoo.— Gass. Journal, 1807, p. 199. Yehah.— 

 Bancroft, Nat. Races, I, 317, 1874. Yehhuh.— 

 Lewis and Clark Exped., ii, 236, 1814. 



Yekolaos. One of the two Cowichan 

 tribes on Thetis id., off the s. e. coast of 

 V^ancouver id., Brit. Col. If identical 

 with the Tsussie of the Canadian Reports 

 on Indian Affairs, the population was 53 

 in 1904. 



Tsussie.— Can. Ind.Aff.,pt.n 66,1902. Yeqolaos.— 

 Boas, MS., B.A.E., 1887. 



Yellow Lake. A Chippewa village, es- 

 tablished about 1740 on Yellow lake, 

 Burnett co.. Wis. — Warren (1852) in 

 Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 171, 1885. _ 



Yellow Liver Band. An unidentified 

 Sioux band, named from its chief, and 

 numbering 60 lodges when brought to 

 Ft Peck agency in Aug. 1872. — H. R. 

 Ex. Doc. 96, 42d Cong., 3d sess., 15, 1873. 



Yellow Thunder ( Wa-kun-cJia-hjo-kah). 

 A Winnebago chief, said to have been 

 born in 1774, died in 1874. Prior to 1840 

 the Winnebago occupied the country sur- 

 rounding L. Winnebago and Green bay. 

 Wis. When it was determined to remove 

 the Indians to a new reservation in n. e. 

 Iowa and s. e. Minnesota, Yellow Thun- 

 der, with others of his tribe, was per- 

 suaded to visit Washington and "get 

 acquainted with the Great Father." 

 Here, on Nov. 1, 1837, they were induced 

 to sign a treaty ceding to the United States 

 all their lands e. of the Mississippi, and 

 providing for their removal to the W. 

 within eight months. The Indians 

 claimed that they were misled into be- 

 lieving that they had eight years in which 

 to make the change, consequently at the 

 expiration of the stipulated time they 

 were unwilling to go. In 1840 troops were 

 sent to Portage to remove the Indians by 

 force, and Yellow Thunder, through a 

 false report that he intended to revolt, 

 was put in chains; he was soon released, 

 however, and the removal was effected 

 without further trouble. Within a year 

 Yellow Thunder and his wife reappeared 

 at their old home and entered a tract of 

 40 acres as a homestead on the w. side of 

 Wisconsin r. about 8 m. aliove Portage. 

 Here he lived quietly until his death in 



Feb. 1 874. Yellow Thunder was greatly 

 respected by his people; he was an able 

 counsellor in their pulilic affairs, indus- 

 trious, temperate, and a zealous Catholic. 

 His portrait, painted by S. I). Coates, is 

 in the gallery of the Wisconsin Historical 

 Society, and a monument to his memory 

 has been erected a few miles n. of Bara- 

 boo. Wis. 



Yellow Thunder. A former Winnebago 

 village, named after its chief, at Yellow- 

 Banks, (ireen Lake co., Wis. — Whittle- 

 sey (1854) in Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 74, 

 repr. 1903. 



Yellow Wolf. A local band of the 

 Cheyenne in 1850. (.i. m. ) 



Yelmus. A village, presumably Costa- 

 noan, whose inhabitants are mentioned 

 as at San Juan Bautista and Dolores mis- 

 sions, Cal. 



Yelamu'.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer. Oct. IS, 1861 

 (at Dolores mission). Yelmus.— Engelhardt, 

 Franciscans in Cal., 398, 1897 (at San Juan Bau- 

 tista mission). 



Yelovoi ( Russian : ' spruce ' ) . A Kani- 

 agiuiut Eskimo village on Spruce id., Ko- 

 diak group, Alaska; pop. 78 in 1880. — 

 Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 28, 1884. 



Yendestake. A Tlingit village at the 

 mouth of Chilkat r., Alaska, with 171 

 inhabitants in 1880. According to Em- 

 mons it is now occupied only in summer. 

 Jendestake.— Krause, Tlinkit Ind., 100, 188.5. Tin- 

 destak.—Wriglit, Alaska, 224, 1883. Yende'staqle.— 

 Swanton, field notes, B. A. E., 1904. Y'hindas- 

 tachy.— Willnrd, Life in Ala.ska, 301, 1884. Yon- 

 destuk.— I'etroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 31, 1884. 



Yennis (' good place ') . A Clallam vil- 

 lage at I'ort Angeles or False Dungeness, 

 on Fuca str., n. w. Wash. Eells reported 



