Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Yana people are a group of Native Americans indigenous to Northern California in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains on the western side of the range. The Yana-speaking people comprised four groups: the Northern Yana the Central Yana the Southern Yana and the Yahi. The noun stem Ya- means person; the noun suffix is -na in the northern Yana dialects and -hi [xi] in the southern dialects. Currently Yana people are still present in California as members of Redding Rancheria.
