Hupa

alt=|thumb|A Hupa white deerskin dance by A.W. Ericson The Hupa (Yurok: / 'Hupa people') are a Native American people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in northwestern California. Their endonym is ' for Hupa-language speakers in general, and for residents of Hoopa Valley, also spelled , meaning "People of the Place Where the Trails Return". The Karuk name for them is ("Hupa (Trinity River) People", from = "Hupa River, i.e. Trinity River"). The majority of the tribe is enrolled in the federally recognized Hoopa Valley Tribe'.

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The Chilula (Yurok language term: Chueluelaʼ/ Chueluelaaʼ, Tsulu-la, "People of Tsulu, the Bald Hill", locally known as the "Bald Hills Indians") were a Pacific Coast Athabaskan tribe speaking a dialect similar to the Hupa to the east and Whilkut to the south, who inhabited the area on or near Lower Redwood Creek, in Northern California.