[6] The Old Table Bluff Reservation was established in 1908, when a church donated 20 acres of land to the Wiyot Tribe.

The language is written in the Latin script, and a dictionary and grammar has been published for Wiyot.

Non-native settlers overran Wiyote lands during the California Gold Rush that started in 1849.

[13] The young men were off collecting supplies for the next day's ceremony leaving the village defenseless, allowing for a group of men from Eureka (who had been planning the massacre) to row across the bay carrying silent weapons (to avoid alarming the nearby city).

When the men came back, their families were piled up leaving only one survivor, a hidden infant.