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The Yurok live on the northwest coast of California and on the lower Klamath River. Traditional subsistence was based on fishing, hunting, and gathering, with salmon being the most important food source. Yurok society was socially stratified into "aristocrats", "commoners", and the "poor". There were no chiefs or leaders, although a man could sometimes gain importance through great wealth. Villages, which had communal property and distinct boundaries, were the basic units for conducting ceremonies and warfare.  Contemporary Yurok work for wages in a broad variety of service jobs or in the fishing and lumbering industries.

Menstruation and the power of Yurok women

Observations on the Yurok

Slipping through sky holes

The four ages of Tsurai

Culture summary

Cry for luck

Law of the Yurok Indians

Handbook of the Indians of California

Yurok

Yurok aristocracy and 'great houses'

To the American Indian

Yurok marriages

Yurok geography

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Buckley, Thomas C. T.	Menstruation and the power of Yurok women	1982
Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger)	Observations on the Yurok	1943
Ferreira, Mariana K. Leal (Mariana Kawall Leal)	Slipping through sky holes	1998
Heizer, Robert Fleming	The four ages of Tsurai	1952
Hester, Thomas R.	Culture summary	2011
Keeling, Richard	Cry for luck	1992
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis)	Law of the Yurok Indians	1928
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis)	Handbook of the Indians of California	1925
Pilling, Arnold R.	Yurok	1978
Pilling, Arnold R.	Yurok aristocracy and 'great houses'	1989
Thompson, Lucy	To the American Indian	1916
Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot)	Yurok marriages	1934
Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot)	Yurok geography	1920

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