Find information about the revival of the Wiyot culture, language, the Heritage Museum, tribal enrollment, library services, the social services available, youth activities, elders meals, environmental projects, and more.

Wiyot cultural practices and language were discouraged by official policies of "acculturation." Wiyot people learned to work and live within the white community, effectively "walking in two worlds." Wiyot people often went to white schools, married European immigrants, and helped to build the timber, fishing and agricultural industries.

The ground beneath Tuluwat, the Wiyot village, is an enormous clamshell mound (or midden). This mound, measuring over six acres in size and estimated to be over 1,000 years old, is an irreplaceable physical history of the Wiyot way of life.

Dishgamu Humbodlt was created to address these challenges and help restore balance to Wiyot ancestral territory - now a collection of highly interdependent yet disparately governed cities and towns, as well as the population center of Humboldt County and the northern California coast.

Find information about the revival of the Wiyot culture, language, the Heritage Museum, tribal enrollment, library services, the social services available, youth activities, elders meals, environmental projects, and more.

The Wiyot language (called Soulátluk' - literally ‘your jaw’ - by some speakers) was the native language of the Wiyot people until the death of Della Prince, the last fluent Wiyot speaker to collaborate with linguists, in 1962.

Our projects take place on ancestral Wiyot land. We cultivate an intentional relationship to the land and work responsibly within its limits. We celebrate the unique opportunities of each site by honoring Wiyot history and culture, our natural world, and the needs of our community.

Wiyot Tribe 1000 Wiyot Drive Loleta, California 95551 Phone: 707-733-5055 Fax: 707-733-5601 Contact Us

Dishgamu Humboldt Community Land Trust is an Indigenous led land trust organized under the Wiyot Tribe based in the Humboldt Bay Area in Northern California. Through land return, Dishgamu seeks to return public and private land within the unceded ancestral territory to …

Wiyot Pronunciation & Vocabulary Soulatluk Pronunciation & Basic Vocabulary This content was originally created as a word-a-day 2019 calendar; but it is a great resource for learning basic …