Name
The Yuki call themselves the autonym Ukomno'm, meaning "Valley People." European Americans learned and adopted the name "Yuki" from the their neighbors, the Nomlaki, who called them "enemy" in the Wintu language. "Yuki" is an exonym, a name by another group. European Americans learned of the Yuki from the Nomlaki, traditional enemies of the Yuki, around 1850.
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