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Hupa are a Native American people in northwestern California (including the Federally recognized Hoopa Valley Tribe).

Hupa Native American people in California

Hupa are a Native American people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in northwestern California. Their endonym is Natinixwe, also spelled Natinook-wa, meaning "People of the Place Where the Trails Return". The majority of the tribe is enrolled in the Federally recognized Hoopa Valley Tribe.

Hupa or Hoopa can refer to:

Hupa is an Athabaskan language spoken along the lower course of the Trinity River in Northwestern California by the Hupa (Na꞉tinixwe) and, before European contact, by the Chilula and Whilkut peoples, to the west.

Hupa traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Hupa, Chilula, and Whilkut people of the Trinity River basin and vicinity of northwestern California. The Hupa people of modern times number in the several thousands and live in the Hoopa Valley located in Humboldt County, California.

USS Hupa (SP-650) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

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<i>Chuppah</i>

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