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Ernie (right) and Joseph Marshal continuing the tradition of fishing for salmon on the Trinity River on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Hoopa, California, October 14, 2021.
Hupa
people
- Also spelled:
- Hoopa
- Related Topics:
- Northwest Coast Indian
Hupa, Indigenous North American people who spoke Hupa, an Athabaskan language, and lived along the lower Trinity River in what is now the state of California, in the region where the Hoopa Valley Reservation is located today. Culturally, the Hupa combined aspects of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast and the Indigenous peoples of California. Hupa villages were traditionally located on the riverbank and included dwellings for women and children, separate semisubterranean buildings where men slept and took sweat baths, and small menstrual lodges for women. The Hupa economy was based on elk, deer, salmon, and acorns, all of ...(100 of 320 words)