The Wailaki live on the Round Valley Reservation in Mendocino County and the Grindstone Creek Rancheria in Glenn County. (Eargle: 1986)

They followed a seasonal round, going to the hills in late spring to collect berries and seeds to hunt and fish. In the fall they collected acorns, hunted, fished and dried food for winter. In the winter they lived in small villages, and gathered in larger groups in the uplands again in spring.

The Wailaki gave the Kato dentalia and got baskets, arrows and clothing. The traded salt and clam disc beads to the Lassik, dentalia to the Karok, and bows and whole clam shells to the Yuki.(Davis:1966)

The Lassik lived on part of the Eel River. Thier lifeways were similar to those of the other groups on this page, making bark houses and following a seasonal round, going to the hills in the spring and summer, and returning to their villages near streams for the winter.. Kroeber mentions that they had the ability to run down an elk, by pursuing it until it tired.

 The Nongatl, who lived in the watershed of the Van Duzen River, were related to the Lassik, Wailaki, Sinkyone and Kato. "The Natural World of the California Indians" states that they were "small groups that failed to survive the impact of the whites." (p 13) Eargle says that they were brought to the Nome Cult Indian Farm, which has become the Round Valley Reservation.

The Nongatl got salt from the Northern Wintun which they traded to the Karok, and they traded dentalia to the Lassik.(Davis: 1966)

The Sinkyone shared some cultural traits with the Yurok and Hupa, and others with the Yuki and Pomo. They made bark slab houses and dance houses. They used a canoe made of redwood. Kroeber says that their basketry was twined, and made with hazel shoots, redwood roots and maidenhair fern. They had elk-horn spoons and used strings of dentalia for money. Kroeber shows a ring-and-pin game made of salmon vertebrae (Kroeber 1977: 147)

The Kato or Cahto now live at Laytonville Rancheria In The Natural World of the California Indians by Heizer and Elasser, the creator, Nagaitcho and Thunder made a new sky when the old sky of sandstone began to wear out. The new sky had trails for Summer Sun and the Winter Sun to travel on.. They made clouds and mist by setting the uplands and creeks. Thunder made the first man of grass and clay. It began to rain, and the rain became a flood. Animals that were thrown in the water changed. Blue lizard became a sucker fish, Grass snake became a steelhead, and Lizard became a trout. Nagaitcho put the trees in place and made creeks by dragging his foot. He put the animals in place, the deer and bear and snakes. (Heizer and Elasser 1980: 217)

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