Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting northwest California, closely related in culture to the Yurok.
- noun The Hokan language of the Karok.
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- proper noun A
Native American tribe of NorthwesternCalifornia . - proper noun A member of this tribe.
- proper noun The
Hokan language of these people.
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- noun the Quoratean language of the Karok
- noun a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lion was nearest the Fire Land, and Frog was nearest the Karok land.
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson
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I have in mind, e.g., the presence of postpositions in Upper Chinook, a feature that is clearly due to the influence of neighboring Sahaptin languages; or the use by Takelma of instrumental prefixes, which are likely to have been suggested by neighboring Hokan languages (Shasta, Karok).
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There is the liveliest intertribal intercourse between the Hupa, Yurok, and Karok, so much so that all three generally attend an important religious ceremony given by any one of them.
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Culturally identical with them are the neighboring Yurok and Karok.
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Stephen Powers in his valuable work so often quoted, gives a number of examples of superstitions regarding the dead of which the following relates to the Karok of California.
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884
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They believe that the soul of a good Karok goes to the 'happy western land' beyond the great ocean.
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884
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They believe that the soul of a good Karok goes to the
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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How well and truly the Karok reverence the memory of the dead is shown by the fact that the highest crime one can commit is the _pet-chi-é-ri_ the mere mention of the dead relative's name.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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Stephen Powers, in his valuable work so often quoted, gives a number of examples of superstitions regarding the dead, of which the following relates to the Karok of California:
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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By the Karok these tribes are called Yurok, “down” or “below,” by which name the family has recently been known.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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