Yurok


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Yu·rok

 (yo͝or′ŏk)
n. pl. Yurok or Yu·roks
1. A member of a Native American people inhabiting northwest California along the Pacific coast and lower Klamath River.
2. The language of this people, distantly related to Algonquian.

[Karok yúruk, downstream.]

Yu′rok adj.
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MJ: For Notes From the Field, you talked to different types of people, from Yurok tribal judge Abby Abinanti to former inmates.
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