Yahooskin (Yahooskin-Paiute)

A people

Deep blue Crater Lake in early spring with the cinder cone of Wizard Island rising near the snow-edged west rim.
Bob Galindo (Bobjgalindo), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Background

Yahooskin-Paiute bands held the country east of the Yamsay Mountain, south of Lakeview and north of Fort Rock, which is the high desert north and east of the basin. They are the third of the three peoples the Klamath Tribes govern, and the Tribes' history page gives all three the shared name mukluks and numu, the people.

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Parks on its homelands

Deep blue Crater Lake in early spring with the cinder cone of Wizard Island rising near the snow-edged west rim.Crater Lake National Park

Yahooskin bands held country south of Lakeview and north of Fort Rock, the Klamath Tribes' own history says, and the same page names the Yahooskin-Paiute as one of the three peoples the Tribes govern. Source

Sources

Checked September 2026.

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