Yurok Tribe The tribe that will be discussed throughout this paper is the Yurok Tribe. The Yurok tribe located in parts of Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California, on a 44-mile stretch of the Klamath River. This tribe is located in northwestern California. Yurok tribe lives close and depends greatly on the Klamath river. The Yurok people stayed close to the river, either going 30 miles inland or 25 down the coast. The have a high terraces, but near the mouth of the river it was low elevation. The weather is cool, during winters it can rain as well as snow. The weather average is about 50 to 55 depending on location. The terrain in this area is steppe. There is mountains containing forests. The location for this tribe was a great fortune …show more content…
They had many different types of tools they created. They would create baskets by using a twinning technique. They would use different types of trees such as hazel or willow branches, roots from redwood, pine, or spruce. These items could be decorated with fern stems and beargrass, as well as red dye from alder bark. The baskets were used, like our grocery bags, to help collect, cook, and store food. A tool created for men was flints, or spoons, which was done by Elk horn. Mussel shells were used by the women as spoons and scrapping roots. They would make designs in their different tools, such as geometric designs. They made redwood log canoes, which were used in the river and the ocean. Fighting was a rare occasion, but the weapons of choice was a bow and arrow or stone club called Okawaya. The Yurok tribe was very resourceful for their everyday …show more content…
They would use deerskins to do so. The young men would take the deerskin and fold it around their hips. It was normal for older men to wear nothing at all. As for the women they would wear skirts made from bark or apron slits into fringes from deerskin, and a cap that was woven similar to a basket. The women would take the time to decorate their clothes with seeds and shells. During the colder months deerskin blankets were used by both women and men. The men would create snowshoes from grapevines and branches, as well as leggings from buckskin, for hunting in the winter. Deerskin was used again to create moccasin shoes, but only for long walks. Instead of wasting the extra items from animals the Yurok would find a use for them, like they did for their clothing.
The Yurok peoples housing was made from redwood planks that were split by wedge logs, and all this was held together by grapevines and poles. The door had a two feet diameter a few inches of the floor, and the walls were low. Inside the house they dugged a pit to have a wide shelf, which stored baskets and utensils. Sometime people would even need a ladder to climb inside the house. They would have a fire pit in the middle, which food would be hung above to be cooked. This would be were the women and children slept. Men and boys would sleep here, but not when the weather was