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Yurok Villages ('o'loolekw - "village") were composed of individual families that lived in separate, single-family homes. [64] The house was owned by the eldest male and in each lived several generations of men related on their father's side of the family as well as their wives, children, daughters’ husbands, unmarried relatives, and adopted ...
A Yörük village settled in 15th century, traditional Turkish houses. The Yörüks, also Yuruks or Yorouks (Turkish: Yörükler; Greek: Γιουρούκοι, Youroúkoi; Bulgarian: юруци; Macedonian: Јуруци, Juruci), are a Turkic ethnic subgroup of Oghuz descent, [4] [5] [6] some of whom are nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia, and partly in the Balkan peninsula ...
Plank house. Traditional Yurok Indian family house at Sumêg Village, in Sue-meg State Park, northern California. Haida houses in 1878 in the village of Skidegate, Skidegate Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. A plank house is a type of house constructed by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, typically using cedar planks.
Sue-meg is the original place name used by the Yurok people. [2] In the modern Yurok orthography, it is spelled Suemeeg, pronounced [ʂumiɣ] or [ʂumij]. [3] [4]Patrick Beegan, an Irish immigrant who came from the Mississippi Valley in 1851, referred to the area as Patrick's Ranch. [5]
A Yurok winter dwelling. Shasta residencies were largely the same in design. [36] Shasta architecture appears to have largely been derived from the downriver Hupa, Karuk and Yurok peoples. [36] Permanent houses were constructed by the Shasta for the winter. These dwellings were built in the same locations annually, commonly near a creek.
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 Natinixwe, also spelled Natinook-wa, meaning "People of the Place Where the Trails Return". [2] The Karuk name for them is Kishákeevar / Kishakeevra ("Hupa ...
The Yurok Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Yurok people located in parts of Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California, on a 44-mile (71 km) stretch of the Klamath River. It is one of a very few tribes who have never been removed from their ancestral lands in California.
Weitchpec is an ancestral Yurok village that long predates European contact. It was originally known as Weitspus, and was considered a major settlement of the Yurok people. Temporary names in the 19th century were Durkee's Ferry and Weitchpec Bar ) [ 8 ] Durkee's Ferry recalls Clark W. Durkee, who operated a ferry at the place in 1851. [ 8 ]