Wiyot Library with Native Authors Joy Harjo (pictured left) and Gayle Ross (pictured right) visiting to attend the Native Authors festival.  Also pictured, Social Services Director, Michelle Vassel  and retired librarian Tisa Jewell ( in the middle)

Wiyot Library Hours 

8 am to 5 pm* 

Closed for lunch 1-2 pm*

Monday through Friday

* Library hours are subject to change without notice 

Come in for a quiet place to do your homework, check out our great selection of fiction, non-fiction, and Native American books!  

Please find a partial bibliography of materials covering Wiyot tribal history Wiyot Tribe Library listed below

•  Curtis, Edward S. “The North American Indian.” V. 13.  New York, Johnson Reprint Co., 1929.   See index for references.   970.494 CUR

•  Elsasser, Albert B.  “Wiyot.”  “Handbook of North American Indians.”   V.8.

• Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1978.  P.155-163.  Culture, language, history.  REF 970.004 HAN v. 8

• Heizer, Robert F., ed., “The California Indians: a sourcebook”, 2nd ed. rev. and enlarged.  Berkeley, CA, University of Berkeley Press, 1971.  Various references to culture, language, etc.  See index.  970.494 CAL

• Kinman, Seth, “The Seth Kinman story” [handwritten] by Geo. M. Richmond; based upon the dictated memoirs of Seth Kinman himself.  Unpublished memoirs from the Andrew Genzoli collection available in the HSU Library.  White settler at Table Bluff recalls local Indians and hearsay accounts of the massacre. Not indexed.  REF 979.412 KIN

• Kroeber, A. L., “Handbook of the Indians of California.”  New York, Dover Publications, 1976.  Reprint.  P.112-120.  Geography and culture.  970.4 KRO 

• Loud, Llewellyn L., “Ethnogeography and archaeology of the Wiyot territory.”  Berkeley, CA, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, v. 14, no. 3, p. 221-436, December 23, 1918.  REF 940.49 LOU

•  Bledsoe, A. J., “Indian wars of the Northwest: a California sketch.”  Oakland, CA, Biobooks, 1956.  P. 168-181, further references of forced removal to Klamath Reservation.  No index.  Many later accounts of massacre in other sources are drawn from this.  979. 41 BLE 

• Heizer, Robert F., ed., “The destruction of California Indians: a collection of documents from the period 1847 to 1865 in which are described some of the things that happened to some of the Indians of California.”  Lincoln, NB, University of Nebraska Press, 1974.  P. 253-265, Newspaper articles about the massacre.  979.4 HEI

• Lowry, Chag, “Northwest indigenous gold rush history: the Indian survivors of California’s holocaust.”  Arcata, CA, Humboldt State University, 1999. P. 2-7.  Interview with Cheryl Seidner on tribal history.  970.1 LOW

• Norton, Jack, “Genocide in Northwestern California: when our worlds cried,” new ed. San Francisco, CA, Indian Historian Press, 1997. P. 81-92.  979.494 NOR

• Sparks, Virginia K., “Indian Island”, Fortuna, CA, 1971.  Typescript.  979.412 SPA