Chilula Indians (Tsu-lu’-la, from Tsula, the Yurok name for the Bald hills.) A small Athapascan division which occupied the lower (north west) portion of the valley of Redwood Creek, north California and Bald hills, dividing it from Klamath valley. They were shut off from the immediate coast of Yurok, who inhabited villages at the mouth of Redwood Creek. The name of the Chilula for themselves is not known; it is probable that like most of the Indians of the region they had none, other than the word for “people” above them on Redwood creek was the related Athapascan group known as Whilkut, or Xoilkut. The Yurok names of some of their villages are Cherkhu, Ona, Opa, Otshpeth and Roktsho.
