Oohl

The Yurok, who call themselves Oohl, lived along the lower Klamath River and the northern California coast. Their homeland extended from the river's mouth towards Trinidad and Crescent City, with communities distinguished as river and coastal people. Salmon returning from the Pacific were central to life along the Klamath, and villages stood among the forests and river bends. The Karuk, whose name means “upriver,” were their neighbors farther upstream. Fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company reached the region in 1827.