• -- Reservations and Rancherias

• -- Museums and Archives

• -- Ongoing Programs

• -- Native American Contacts

• -- Books Dealing with this Region

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• Smith River Rancheria (Tolowa)
  Smith River Road, off of US#101.
• Elk Valley Rancheria (Tolowa).
• Resighini Rancheria (Tolowa, Yurok).
• Yurok Reservation (Yurok)
  Along the Klamath River from Requa (at the coast) east to Weitchpec (at junction with CA#96).
• Big Lagoon Rancheria (Yurok)
• Tsurai Rancheria (Yurok)
  Trinidad Exit off of US#101, one mile south on Coast Bluff Road.
• Hoopa Reservation (Hupa, Chilula, Whilkut)
  Hoopa, CA#96.
• Blue Lake Rancheria (Yurok)

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• Del Norte County Historical Museum
  577 H Street, Crescent City ((707-464-3922).
• Trees of Mystery Indian Museum
  on US#101, fifteen miles south of Crescent City, includes one of the largest private collections in the West (707-482-5613).
• Sumeg
  Replica Yurok village at Patrick's Point State Park, five miles north of Trinidad
  actively used by Yurok Nation for cultural events.
• California State University, Humboldt
  Arcata, includes an excellent collection at the University Library (707-826-3416).
• Clarke Memorial Museum
  Third and E Street, Eureka, includes an excellent collection of basketry (707-443-1947).
• Hoopa Tribal Museum
  Hoopa (916-625-4110), includes fine private collections in this tribal cultural center.
• Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sonoma
  Includes archaeological site records for the Northwest Region (707-664-2494).

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• Goddard, Pliny Earle. "Hupa Texts" in UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1904)
• Goddard, Pliny E. "Life and Culture of the Hupa" in UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1903)
• Nelson, Byron. Our Home Forever: The Hupa Indians of Northern California (Howe Brothers, 1988)
• Goldschmidt, Walter R. and Harold E. Driver. "The Hupa White Deerskin Dance" in UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 35, No. 8 (1940)
• Lang, Julian. Ararapikva: Creation Stories of the People (Heyday Books, 1994)
• Kroeber, Alfred L. and E. W. Gifford. Karok Myths (University of California Press, 1980)
• Harrington, John P.. Karuk Indian Myths (Scholarly, 1986)
• Holsinger, Rosemary. Karuk Tales (Bell Books, 1992)
• Bell, Maureen. Karuk: The Upriver People (Naturegraph Publishers, 1991)
• Sanderson, Grover C.. Peek-wa Stories: Ancient Indian Legends of California (Herburger Printers, 1986)
• Davis, Barbara and Hendryx, Michael. Plants and the People: The Ethnobotany of the Karuk Tribe (Siskiyou County Museum, Yreka, CA, 1991)
• Fields, Virginia M.. The Hover Collection of Karuk Baskets (Clarke Memorial, 1985)
• Harrington, John P.. Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California (Scholarly, 1986)
• Keeling, Richard. Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California (University of California Press, 1992)
• Heizer, Robert F. (ed.). George Gibbs' Journal of Redick McKee's Expedition through Northwestern California in 1851 (Department of Anthropology, UCB, 1972)
• Arnold, Mary Ellicott and Mabel Reed. In the Land of the Grasshopper Song (University of Nebraska Press, 1980)
• Warburton, Austen D. and Endert, Joseph F.. Indian Lore of the North California Coast (Pacific Pueblo Press, 1966)
• Heizer, Robert F. and John E. Mills. The Four Ages of Tsurai (Trinidad, CA: Trinidad Museum Society, 1991)
• Thompson, Lucy; Palmquist, Peter-Pref. by; Lang, Julian-Intro. by. To the American Indian: Reminiscences of Yurok Woman (Heyday Bks, 1991)
• Waterman, T. T.. Yurok Geography (Trinidad, CA: Trinidad Museum Society, 1993)
• Kroeber, Alfred L.. Yurok Myths (U of Cal Pr, 1975 )
• Spott, Robert and A. L. Kroeber. "Yurok Narratives" in UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 35, No. 9 (1942)
• Bell, Rosemary. Yurok Tales (Bell Books, 1992)

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