Yellowhead or Yellow Head may refer to:

People

Tête Jaune Pierre Bostonais or Pierre Hastination (died 1828), better known as Tête Jaune, was an Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)-Métis trapper, fur trader, and explorer who worked for the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company during the 18th and 19th centuri ...

aka. Pierre Bostonais aka. Pierre Hastination, trapper and explorer of Western Canada *

Ozaawindib ''Ozaawindib'' ("Yellow Head" in English, recorded variously as Oza Windib, O-zaw-wen-dib, O-zaw-wan-dib, Ozawondib, etc.) (Ojibwe) was an early 19th century (Floruit, fl. 1797-1832) warrior. Ozaawindib, who was born male, at times wore attire m ...

, a 19th-century Ojibwa warrior

Places

;In Canada *

Yellowhead Highway The Yellowhead Highway () is a major interprovincial highway in Western Canada that runs from Winnipeg west to Graham Island off the coast of British Columbia via Saskatoon and Edmonton. It stretches across the four western provinces of Britis ...

in Western Canada **

Yellowhead Trail Yellowhead Trail is a expressway segment of the Yellowhead Highway ( Highway 16) in northern Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It carries a significant amount of truck traffic to and from the industrial areas of north Edmonton and serves as a key ...

, Edmonton, Alberta *

Yellowhead County Yellowhead County is a municipal district in west central Alberta, Canada. It is the only municipal district within Alberta census division No. 14. History *1994: Established as a ''Municipal District of Yellowhead No. 94'' on January 1. ...

, Alberta *

Yellowhead (electoral district) Yellowhead is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. The district is in west-central Alberta and represents: parts of the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 ...

, Alberta *

Rural Municipality of Yellowhead The Rural Municipality of Yellowhead is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba. History The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the Municipality of Shoal Lake and the RM of Str ...

, Manitoba *

West Yellowhead (electoral district) West Yellowhead is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 current ridings mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting. The d ...

, Alberta * Yellowhead Centre, Neepawa, Manitoba *

Yellowhead Lake Yellowhead Lake is an irregularly shaped lake that is located about 3.7 km southwest of Yellowhead Pass within the boundaries of Mount Robson Provincial Park. It is on the lower reaches of ''Yellowhead Creek'', a large creek that flows into ...

, British Columbia *

Yellowhead Mountain Yellowhead Mountain is located west of Yellowhead Pass in Mount Robson Provincial Park and straddles the Continental Divide marking the Alberta-British Columbia border. It was named for Pierre Bostonais aka Tête Jaune. The mountain has four off ...

, Alberta and British Columbia *

Yellowhead Pass The Yellowhead Pass is a mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas in the Canadian Rockies. It is on the provincial boundary between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and lies within Jasper Nation ...

mountain pass and National Historic Site, Alberta and British Columbia ;In the United States *

Yellow Head, Maine Yellow Head is a marine navigational coastal location, often sited in maps, within Lincoln County, in the U.S. State of Maine (1). It is located on Pemaquid peninsula, 1.1 m south of New Harbor, Maine and north of Pemaquid Lighthouse. It is p ...

, a village in Lincoln County, Maine *

Yellowhead Township, Kankakee County, Illinois Yellowhead Township is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,700 and it contained 1,065 housing units. Yellowhead Township derives its name from the Potawatomi warrior, Yellow ...

Organisms

Yellowhead (bird) The yellowhead or mohua (''Mohoua ochrocephala'') is a small insectivorous passerine bird endemism, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Once a common forest bird, its numbers declined drastically after the introduction of Black rat, rat ...

Yellowhead disease Yellowhead disease (YHD) is a viral infection of shrimp and prawn, in particular of the giant tiger prawn (''Penaeus monodon''), one of the two major species of farmed shrimp. The disease is caused by the Yellow head virus (YHV), a positive-st ...

Yellowhead jawfish The yellowhead jawfish (''Opistognathus aurifrons'') is a species of jawfish native to coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea. It is found at depths of from . The head and upper body are a light, but brilliant, yellow color slowly fading to a pearlesc ...

Yellowhead butterflyfish ''Chaetodon xanthocephalus'', known commonly as the Yellowhead butterflyfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Chaetodontidae. It is found in the Indian Ocean. Description The yellowhead butterflyfish has a pearly white body with a gol ...

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Inula ''Inula'' is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe, Asia and Africa. They may be annuals, herbaceous perennials or subshrubs that vary greatly in size, from small species a few centimeter ...

'', plants in the daisy family *''

Trichoptilium ''Trichoptilium'' is a monotypic genus in the daisy family containing the single species ''Trichoptilium incisum'', which is known by the common names yellowdome and yellowhead. Description ''Trichoptilium incisum'' grows up to tall. It sends ...

'', plants in the daisy family *'' Zanthoxylum flavum'', a citrus plant

Other uses

* ''Yellowhead'' (film), a 2013 Canadian short film {{disambiguation, geo, plant, fish