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The Hupa (Yurok: Huep'oola' / Huep'oolaa 'Hupa people' [3]) are a Native American people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in northwestern California. Their endonym is dining’xine:wh for Hupa-language speakers in general, and na:tinixwe for residents of Hoopa Valley, [ 4 ] also spelled Natinook-wa , meaning "People of the Place ...
The Karuk living north of the Salmon River Divide called the Chima:lxwe' / Chimalakwe / Tł'oh-mitah-xwe Akráak va'ára ('New River People'). [4] The Norelmuk Wintu from Hayfork called the Tsnungwe Num-nor-muk. [5] Because their language is a dialect of the Hupa language, they are also called South Fork Hupa.
The Hupa people of modern times number in the several thousands and live in the Hoopa Valley located in Humboldt County, California. The oral literature of the Hupa is markedly similar to that of their linguistically unrelated neighbors, the Karuk and Yurok. It differs from the traditional narratives of most California groups, but shows ...
Hupa (native name: Na꞉tinixwe Mixine꞉wheʼ, lit. ' language of the Hoopa Valley people ') is an Athabaskan language (of Na-Dené stock) spoken along the lower course of the Trinity River in Northwestern California by the Hoopa Valley Hupa (Na꞉tinixwe) and Tsnungwe/South Fork Hupa (Tse꞉ningxwe) and, before European contact, by the Chilula and Whilkut peoples, to the west.
The Hupa women's coming-of-age ceremony can last for three, five, or ten days. The ceremony, called The Flower Dance, is a public celebration within the tribe that is held when a girl starts menstruating. [7] There are specific practices and rituals in place that are important to the Hupa people because of the strong historical tradition.
The De-No-To Cultural District, also known as the Trinity Summit Area is a Hupa cultural site near Hoopa, California.The area serves as a religious site for the Hupa, and the people still conduct religious ceremonies at sites in the district.
Most authors consider class the Chilula as a separate people, sometimes they are also considered another fourth tribelet (subgroup) of the Whilkut and are called the Chilula Whilkut. Little is known of the Whilkut culture beyond its similarity to that of the Hupa and criticized by the Hupa and Chilula as guarded, traditional, less settled hill ...
It is not known what the autonym of the Tlohomtah’hoi Shasta was. However it is known that the Shasta likely referred to them as "tax·a·ʔáycu", the Hupa called them "Yɨdahčɨn" or "those from upcountry (away from the stream)", while the Karok called them "Kà·sahʔára·ra" or "person of ka·sah". [18]