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| | Hupa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Hupa, Native American tribe of Athapaskan stock, originally occupying a number of small villages along the Trinity River in the Hoopa Valley of northwestern California, and now gathered on a United States government reservation in the same region. |
 | | Hupa culture, similar to the culture of the Yurok and Karok tribes, is the southernmost example of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest, although it lacks certain characteristic features of the northern tribes, such as secret societies, masks, totem poles, and potlatch ceremonies. |
 | | Like the tribes of the Northwest, the Hupa base many of their customs, such as marriage by purchase, and social distinctions, such as the assumption of chieftainship, upon wealth; an aristocracy of the wealthy in earlier days commanded the services of its debtors as slaves. |
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