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- proper noun an
indigenous people ofCalifornia . - proper noun the
language of this people. - noun A member of this people.
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Examples
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"Art of the Native Americans: The Thaw Collection," much of which normally resides in Cooperstown, N.Y., spans 2,00 0 years and dozens of elegant objects, from baskets woven by California's Karuk tribe to a fiery ceremonial horse mask once worn by the Nez Perce.
The Short List 2010
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Humboldt County, California, is home to several tribes, among them the Karuk.
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He sings me a song, in the Karuk language, as a girl would sing to capture the attentions of a young man she might have her eye on.
Boing Boing 2008
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Karuk acorn book (SuDoc ED 1.310/2: 282707) by U.S. Dept of Education
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Karuk acorn book (SuDoc ED 1.310/2: 282707) by U.S. Dept of Education
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The fish provided both an incredible commercial resource and a source of sustenance to tribes including the Yurok, Karuk, Klamath, and Hoopa Valley.
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Or perhaps you meant Native born as in Native Americans who speak Karuk, Takelma, Zuni, Adai, Esselen, or Yana?
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The Museum has been in the news over the last few years, because many of the objects returned to it via NAGPRA have been contaminated with toxic levels of pesticides, posing potential risks to members of the Hupa, Yurok and Karuk tribes who use them in religious ceremonies.
Something Sacred 2006
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One of the grants announced Monday will help provide Internet services to about 570 members of the Karuk Native American Tribe in a mountainous region of Orleans, in northern California.
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One of the grants announced Monday will help provide Internet services to about 570 members of the Karuk Native American Tribe in a mountainous region of Orleans, in northern California.
hernesheir commented on the word Karuk
Karuk is famous for its large system of directional suffixes on verbs of motion, yet the language lacks words for the cardinal directions. Instead, directionality is based on relation of point of reference to the landscape. Bright (1957) found 38 suffixes that translate in such ways as "uphill away from point of reference," "uphill toward point of reference," "upriver toward point of reference," "upriver away from point of reference," "from here across a body of water," "horizontally away from the center of a body of water," "in through a tubular space," and so forth. Source link.
April 25, 2011