Hupa Tribe



Ancestral Homeland: along the Trinity River in northwestern California; became known as Hoopa Valley

Brief Timeline
1849: some Euroamericans and Chinese mined the river

1876: Hoopa Valley became a reservation

Additional References to the History of the Tribes and/or Bands
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Hupa tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

Records
Agency Records

Correspondence and Census

Important Web Sites

 * Hupa Tribe Wikipedia