Native American Tribal Information
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Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation California
Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation California
The Yurok, whose name means "downriver people", are Native Americans whose ancestors, by some estimates, have lived for at least 10,000 years near the Pacific Ocean coast of Northern California , United States.
Following encounters with white settlers moving into their aboriginal lands during a gold rush in 1850, the Yurok were faced with disease and massacres that reduced their population by 75%. In 1855, most of those that remained were forcibly relocated to the Yurok Indian Reservation on the Klamath River.
On November 24, 1993, the Yurok wrote a constitution that details the jurisdiction and territory of their lands. The Yurok are currently the largest group of Native Americans in the state of California. The Yurok reservation of 63,035 acres (255 km²) has an 80% poverty rate and 70% of the inhabitants do not have telephone service or electricity, according to the tribe's webpage.
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Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation California
the most common greetings and responses in Yurok) Hee-Merk-Sers! (Hurry up!) Kues son' (roughly translates as: What's happening, What's up, or What's wrong)
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... Tribal Council and other agencies. Yurok Tribe ... Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the California ... are currently located in 3 offices on the Yurok Indian Reservation:
