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Hupa traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Hupa, Chilula, and Whilkut people of the Trinity River basin and vicinity of northwestern California. The Hupa people of modern times number in the several thousands and live in the Hoopa Valley located in Humboldt County, California .
Hupa, like many tribes in the area, fish for salmon in the Klamath and Trinity rivers. One of the methods they once used to capture fish was the fish weir, which tribal members would maintain. Hupa share all of their fishing practices with the neighboring Yurok [10] Hupa tribal fishers and their families rely on the Spring and Fall Chinook ...
The primary language was the Tsnungwe dialect of Hupa, and the secondary language was Chimariko, although spoken with a Hupa accent. [ 3 ] The Tsnungwe include two sub-groups called łe:lxwe ('People of łe:l-ding ') after their most important settlement and religious center, and the Chima:lxwe' / Chimalakwe / Tł'oh-mitah-xwe ('grass, prairies ...
Laylander, Don. 2005. "Myths about Myths: Clues to the Time Depth of California's Ethnographic Record". Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 18:65-69. Lowie, Robert H. 1908. "The Test-Theme in North American Mythology". Journal of American Folklore 21:97-148. Reichard, Gladys A. 1921. "Literary Types and Dissemination of Myths".
The Ojibwe version of the myth states that the thunderbirds were created by Nanabozho to fight the underwater spirits. Thunderbirds also punished humans who broke moral rules. The thunderbirds lived in the four directions and arrived with the other birds in the springtime. In the fall, they migrated south after the end of the underwater spirits ...
from northwestern California (the Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk) ... (Seven Wailaki myths, including Theft of Fire, collected from North Fork John, vol. 14, pp. 167–169.)
The myth of the chupacabra is mocked in a 2012 episode of the cartoon series South Park, titled "Jewpacabra", in which antisemitic main character Eric Cartman claims to have seen a Jewish Chupacabra that kills children on Easter. [25]
Pages in category "Hupa" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...