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Yurok may refer to:
- Yurok people, a Native American tribe of northern California
- Yurok language, the Algic language of the Yurok tribe
- Yurok Indian Reservation, in Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California
- Yurok traditional narratives
- USS Yurok (ATF-164), a fleet tug laid down for the United States Navy in 1945, but converted into a submarine rescue vessel prior to completion and commissioned as USS Bluebird (ASR-19).
Usage examples of "yurok".
Along with noting the size and fierceness of the salmon, the fogbound treachery of the coasts, the fishing villages of the Yurok and Tolowa people, log keepers not known for their psychic gifts had remembered to write down, more than once, the sense they had of some invisible boundary, met when approaching from the sea, past the capes of somber evergreen, the stands of redwood with their perfect trunks and cloudy foliage, too high, too red to be literal trees carrying therefore another intention, which the Indians might have known about but did not share.
Once past the lights of Vineland, the river took back its older form, became what for the Yuroks it had always been, a river of ghosts.
The Yuroks spoke a language related to the Woodland Algonquian tribes of the northeastern United States, while the Karuk spoke Hokan, the oldest language in northwestern California, and the Hupa spoke the Athapaskan, which was a language common in the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest.