Hoopa Valley Tribe

The Hoopa Tribal Museum, located in the center of the Hoopa Valley Tribe Reservation, was created to preserve and to share the rich culture and history of the native people of northern California.  This grant will assist the museum to work with one of the last surviving, old-style Hupa language speakers, who lives away from the reservation in Oregon.  The museum will videotape and record her stories told in the Hupa language, and she will make corrections to ethnographers' transcripts and carry out other cultural work, such as taking the museum staff to sites associated with tribal history and stories.  The elder fluent Hupa speaker, museum curator, and other staff members will attend hands-on technical training at the Indigenous Language Institute to learn more on how to create story books, newsletters, calendars, and flash cards using the Hupa language.