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Hupa

American  
[hoo-puh] / ˈhu pə /

noun

  1. an Athabascan Indian language of northwestern California.


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But she says she and her crew, members of the Hupa and Yurok tribes, relish the chance to work outside and contribute to rebuilding the river.

From Science Magazine Oct. 18, 2023

Yurok, Karuk, Hupa and Klamath people traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2004 to tell Scottish Power shareholders what their hydroelectric dams were doing to California rivers and their fish.

From Seattle Times Jun. 11, 2023

Tribal members keep ancestral villages of cedar plank houses, known as xonta in the Hupa language, along the Trinity River, visiting them for ceremonies and dances in which fishers are revered.

From Salon Apr. 3, 2022

Officials are removing them to save over a million salmon, and the Hupa tribe, which relies on salmon as a food source for centuries.

From BBC Oct. 22, 2021

The Hupa word te-s-e-ya-te “I will go,” for example, consists of a radical element -ya- “to go,” three essential prefixes and a formally subsidiary suffix.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

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