Yurok

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a particular Native American tribe of Northern California.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Algic language of these people.

Etymology

Borrowed from Karok [Term?] (“downriver [people]”), as they live on the Klamath River downstream of the Karuk, whose name means "upriver [people]".

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native american

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