Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting northwest California along the Pacific coast and lower Klamath River.
- noun The language of this people, distantly related to Algonquian.
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- proper noun A
Native American tribe of NorthernCalifornia . - proper noun A member of this tribe.
- proper noun The
Algic language of these people.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By the Karok these tribes are called Yurok, “down” or “below,” by which name the family has recently been known.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Iu Mien refugees in Oakland, the Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans, and the Yurok tribe in Northwest California are all examples of communities with strong social networks that lift each other up together.
Maurice Lim Miller: The Power of Social Networks to Break the Cycle of Poverty Maurice Lim Miller 2011
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Later I learned it was, indeed, an ancient gathering place for the Yurok people, with whom I have some sort of inexplicable deep connection.
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Iu Mien refugees in Oakland, the Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans, and the Yurok tribe in Northwest California are all examples of communities with strong social networks that lift each other up together.
Maurice Lim Miller: The Power of Social Networks to Break the Cycle of Poverty Maurice Lim Miller 2011
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Later I learned it was, indeed, an ancient gathering place for the Yurok people, with whom I have some sort of inexplicable deep connection.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Iu Mien refugees in Oakland, the Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans, and the Yurok tribe in Northwest California are all examples of communities with strong social networks that lift each other up together.
Maurice Lim Miller: The Power of Social Networks to Break the Cycle of Poverty Maurice Lim Miller 2011
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In the United States from northwestern California to Alaska, various tribes, such as the Yurok and the Hupa, built subterranean sweat houses of wood.
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In the United States from northwestern California to Alaska, various tribes, such as the Yurok and the Hupa, built subterranean sweat houses of wood.
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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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Thus, Yurok standing on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific occasionally saw a bright flash of light near sunset on the horizon.
UMAI AND THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WATER Maggie Jochild 2007
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