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Yurok

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Yu·rok  (yrk)
n. pl. Yurok or Yu·roks
1.
a. A Native American people inhabiting northwest California along the Pacific coast and lower Klamath River.
b. A member of this people.
2. The language of this people, distantly related to Algonquian.

[Karok yúruk, downstream.]


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Many unpublicized or "whitewashed" parts of the history of the Karuk, Yurok, and Hupa peoples of the Klamath River area in northwestern California are also described in painful detail.
PIERCE, YUROK TRIBAL FISHERIES PROGRAM, THE KLAMATH RIVER FISH KILL OF 2002: ANALYSIS OF CONTRIBUTING FACTORS 4-5 (2004), available at http://www.
A private service is planned at the Yurok Tribal Burial Grounds in Northern California.
 
 
 
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