The Wiyot are a North American Indian people and the native population of the area around the Humboldt Bay, in the northwest of the US state of California.
In 1860 a tragic slaughter took place on Indian Island in the Humboldt Bay, where 80 to 250 Wiyot men, women and children were killed by colonists from the town of Eureka. After the slaughter, only 200 members of the tribe remained. In 1910 there were only 100 thoroughbred Wiyot Indians. Currently, about 500 people in Northern California are talking about Wiyot. Language
The Wiyot and neighboring Yurok Indians are the only native Americans in the southwest of the United States who originally spoke Algiers. The language of the Wiyot was extinct in 1962 with her last speaker. The Yurok is threatened as a language and has only ten dozen speakers. Also see Externe link
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