The Multiple Migration Theory: The Origin Of The Yana Tribes

Since we don't actually know how Indian tribes, over 500 to 600 of them, got to California there have been three theories made. The most well- known, the Bering Strait theory, informed us that the tribes might have descended from northern Asia and migrated, crossing over a land bridge, from Siberia to Alaska. Another theory is the Multiple Migration theory, which told us that the Indians migrated from many places in different ways to arrive in California. In addition to these two theories there is the Indigenous Origin theory, which apprised us that the Indians had been to California since the first day of light when sky people fell to earth, as their ancestors came from a world below through a vertical tunnel. One of these tribes, the Yana tribe, was an independent tribe who had settled in Northern California between the Feather and Pit rivers.
The Yana tribe used to live in the territory of Northern California which meant that their buildings were based on what they could find in their
Before the massacres of the Yahi tribe there were about 400 Yahi people. The Yahi people died from the loss of their traditional food supplies and from fighting for their territory, as gold mining damaged the streams, fish runs, and scared the deer away. Those are not the only reasons why their population began to diminish, but they were also destroyed by armed, white settlers in multiple raids. From 1870 to 1911, the Yana period of concealment began when the remaining Yahi people, five to twenty individuals, hid in the Mill creek area because the white settlers were too strong for them. During that period Ishi, the last survivor from the Yahi tribe who died in March 25, 1916, escaped from the Yahi territory and hid until T.T. Waterman, searching for lost bands of Indians, found him in Oroville. After T.T. Waterman found Ishi, he