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Karok

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Kar·ok  (k-rk)
n. pl. Karok or Kar·oks
1.
a. A Native American people inhabiting northwest California, closely related in culture to the Yurok.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Hokan language of the Karok.

[From Karok káruk, upstream.]
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Noun1.Karok - a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern CaliforniaKarok - a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California
Hoka, Hokan - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
2.Karok - the Quoratean language of the Karok
Quoratean - a group of languages of the Hokan family


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These recommendations were developed by an outside consultant hired by the agency and by a technical review team, composed of representatives from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Geological Survey, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Yurook, Hoopa, and Karok Tribes, and California's Department of Fish and Game.
The precise reading of the Court's ruling was not a determination that the government had a requisite "compelling interest" in the construction of a disputed logg ing road through land ancestrally used for prayer and ritual by the Yurok, Karok, and Tolowa peoples.
CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Basket by Karok artist Elizabeth Hickox.
 
 
 
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