Karuk

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Pre-contact distribution of the Karuk

Karuk (also Karok) are an indigenous people of California in the United States.

The tribal headquarters, located off Highway 96, are in the town of Happy Camp, California. Currently the tribe has three tribal board meeting places, in Yreka, Happy Camp, and Orleans. The current chairman of the tribe is Archie Super.

1 Population
2 Karuk Indian Reservation
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Population

Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. (See Population of Native California.) Alfred L. Kroeber (1925:883) proposed a population for the Karuk of 1,500 in 1770. Sherburne F. Cook (1956:98, 1976:170) initially estimated it as 2,000, later raising this figure to 2,700.

Kroeber reported the surviving population of the Karuk in 1910 as 800.

[edit] Karuk Indian Reservation

The Karuk Indian Reservation, including off-reservation trust lands, is comprised of numerous small non-contiguous parcels of land along the Klamath River in western Siskiyou County and northeastern Humboldt County in California. The total land area of these parcels is 2.908 km² (1.123 sq mi, or 718.49 acres). A resident population of 333 persons was reported in the 2000 census. Part of the city of Yreka lies within the reservation's territory.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

Cook, Sherburne F. 1956. "The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California". Anthropological Records 16:81-130. University of California, Berkeley.
Cook, Sherburne F. 1976. The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C.
Karuk Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, California United States Census Bureau