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Ka·rok

 (kə-rŏk′) also Ka·ruk (-rŭk′)
n. pl. Karok or Ka·roks also Karuk or Ka·ruks
1. A member of a Native American people inhabiting northwest California, closely related in culture to the Yurok.
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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According to National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC), Islamabad, the epicenter of the earthquake was located 12 kilometers beneath the earth near National Kirthpar Karok on Sindh-Balochistan border.
Police said that rickshaw driver Mukhtar, 45, Sumaira, 25 and a child lost their lives when a tractor collided with their vehicle near Karok Ghatti.
(6) Cardinai Stanislaw Dziwisz in conversation with Gian Franco Svidercoschi, A Life with Karok My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope, tr.
Of the Native nations we do know in an area from the Northern California border down to the Golden Gate Bridge in the west and Yosemite National Park in the east, an area of 250 miles by 200 miles, there were Tolowa, Yurok, Chilula, Karok, Shasta, Wiyot, Whilkut, Yana, Waintu, Maidu, Washo, Konkow, Patwin, Wappo, Pomo, Paiute, Ohlone, and many, many others (Stannard, 1992:21).
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.
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