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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

Wau-Kee-Taw Chief of the Yubus (10 pages)

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WAU-KEE-TAW CHIEF OF THE YUBUS BY EARL RAMEY The subject of this paper is pretty certainly the earliest resident of Yuba City of whom we have any specific record. He was called WauKee-Tau and was the last chief of the Yubu Indians who had their rancheria on the west bank of the Feather River opposite the mouth of the Yuba. This tribe and rancheria were noted as early as 1841 by John A. Sutter, and he and others, used the name of the tribe Yubu, to designate the river b ut which was later changed to Yuba. Waukeetaw first became known by name to the public as a result of his prominence in the activities relative to the removal of the Yubu to a reservation in 1856. The Congress of the United States had established a system of reservations and farms for California Indians in 1853. The one nearest to this community was the Nome Lackee reservation in Tehama County. But not a great deal was done towards settling these reservations until 1855 when Colonel Thomas J. Henley was appointed Indian agent for California. The matter of removal of the Yubus was first brought to the attention of the community by a letter signed J.H.B. and printed in the Marysville Herald of May 19, 1855. The writer had just visited Nome Lackee where nearly 1000 indians had already been gathered and where 1000 acres were under cultivation. He had high praise for Colonel Henley and his progran:for the welfare-of the natives, expecially the plan for schooling and technical training for the young. The writer urged the editor to do what he could to encourage the removal of the Yubus. And he warned that some interested persons were trying to influence the indians to resist removal. Later another letter signed E.M. and dated at Empire Ranch told how a sub-agent from Nome Lackee, S.P. Storms, who was able to speak the language of the indians at the ranch, had succeeded in persuading about a hundred of them to go to the reservation. This writer also praised Colonel Henley for the fine program he was carrying out.