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Yahi, n. (and a.)|ˈjɑːhɪ|
[Yahi ya:xi person, people.]
An extinct American Indian people formerly living in northern California, and speaking a language of the Yanan family of the Hokan stock. Also attrib. or as adj. Cf. Yana n.
Also known as the Mill Creek or Deer Creek Indians.
1911San Francisco Examiner 6 Sept. 5/4 ‘The capture of this man is of the utmost importance,’ said Professor Kroeber. ‘He represents a new and supposedly extinct dialect. He says he is of the Yahi tribe.’ 1915Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 234 The southern branch of the stock, calling themselves simply Yahi, or ‘people’, and inhabiting a stretch of country immediately east of the Sacramento, kept the whites in a state of uncertainty for a considerably longer time. 1918Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Archaeol. & Ethnol. XIII. 37 Even within this limited area, there are now recognized four separate dialects: a northern, a central, a southern, and a Yahi. 1961T. Kroeber Ishi in Two Worlds 7 Waterman was learning that the unknown Yahi dialect differed considerably but not to the point of unintelligibility from the two northern ones of his list. 1988Antiquity LXII. 658/2 Pope..used a light flight arrow made by the Yahi Indian Ishi for some of his tests. |