Hupa
Americannoun
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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 Karok regard the Deerskin and Jumping dances of the Yurok and Hupa as the equivalents of these ceremonies of their own, reckoning altogether ten places in the world at which they are performed.
From The Religion of the Indians of California by A. L. Kroeber
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