Hupa-Yurok-Wiyot mythology

Hupa-Yurok-Wiyot mythology

The mythology Hupa-Yurok-Wiyot brings together the following Native American peoples: Hupas, Hoopas, Yurok, Wiyot.

The Hupas Where Hoopas are a Native American people of the Na-Dené language family in northwest California. The Hupas call themselves “Na:tini-xwe” which roughly means “people on both sides of the path”.

The Hupas are one of the rare Native American peoples who still live in their original territory. The Hupa Valley Preserve was established in 1864 and is the largest preserve in California. The Hupas generally lived peacefully with the neighboring peoples of the Wiyots, Yuroks and Wailakis, obtaining from them goods that they did not possess or could not make, such as salt or shells.

The Yuroks are a tribe of Native Americans from the west coast of the United States, who lived in northern California, the lower Klamath River, and the Pacific Coast. They spoke a language, Yurok, now almost extinct, of the group of languages painful. The name "Yurok" itself comes from karok neighbor and means "going down the river" or "people from the bottom of the rivers". The people Wiyot are a Native American people of California who have lived in Humboldt Bay for 8,000 years.