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Our project is a collaboration between the Karuk Tribe and the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, UC Berkeley. The Karuk dictionary is the work of William Bright and Susan Gehr, with additional contributions, editing, and computer coding by Berkeley project participants. The Karuk texts have been put into their online format at Berkeley, based on published editions by William Bright, J. P. Harrington, and others.

Project participants, collaborators, and contributors include Andrew Garrett and Erik Maier (UC Berkeley); Susan Gehr (College of the Redwoods, Karuk tribal linguist and archivist); Clare Sandy (San Francisco State University, San José State University); Karuk master speakers, including Sonny Davis and the late Lucille Albers, Charlie Thom, and Vina Smith; and Karuk language activists and teachers, including LuLu Alexander, Tamara Alexander, Julian Lang, Crystal Richardson, and Florrine Super. Those who have participated at Berkeley also include Line Mikkelsen and many current and former graduate students (including Nicholas Baier, Kayla Carpenter, Erin Donnelly, Matthew Faytak, Kelsey Neely, Melanie Redeye, and Tammy Stark) and undergraduate students (including Shane Bilowitz, Anna Currey, Kouros Falati, Nina Gliozzo, Morgan Jacobs, Karie Moorman, Olga Pipko, Jeff Spingeld, and Whitney White). (Some of our work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1065620; opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We have also received financial support from UC Berkeley and generous logistical support from the Karuk Tribe.)

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• "Áxak kústaansas", story by LuLu and Tamara Alexander, illustrations and translations by LuLu Alexander, Tamara Alexander, Susan Gehr, Erik Maier, Crystal Richardson, and Nancy Steele, created at the 2016 Breath of Life workshop

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We hope the material below will be useful. Some of it is in draft form; there may be errors. If you find a mistake, please let us know! (Send e-mail to Andrew Garrett.)

• Karuk word order (handout by Line Mikkelsen)
• Vowel contraction and deletion with personal prefixes (pdf including handout, practice exercises, and answer keys, by Clare Sandy)
• Introduction to Karuk accent (handout by Clare Sandy)
• Karuk kinship terms: Blood relations (handout by Andrew Garrett)
• Using pa- with possessive prefixes (handout by Andrew Garrett)
• Sentences and vocabulary for introductions, relatives, and serving food (handout from June 2013 Karuk Language Bootcamp)
• Chart for translating historic ways of writing Karuk vowels and consonants into modern Karuk spelling, for researchers (by Clare Sandy)
• Chart for translating historic ways of writing Karuk accents into modern Karuk spelling, for reseachers (by Clare Sandy)
• Summary of pronunciation of Karuk words based on written accent (adapted from Bright (1957) by Clare Sandy)

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Weekly summaries (by Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen, in pdf format)

• April 2016: Sentences from 30 stories
  • April 1 – 30
• March 2016: Words and sentences from Vina Smith
  • March 1 – 29
• February 2016: Words and sentences from Violet Super
  • Feb. 1 – 29
• January 2016: Tense and aspect
  • durative -tih (Jan. 1 – 7)
  • future -heesh (Jan. 8 – 14)
  • past -at (Jan. 15 – 21)
  • perfect ta- (Jan. 22 – 31)
• December 2015: Verbal subject prefixes
  • singular subjects "I, you, he, she, it" (Dec. 1 – 10)
  • plural subjects "we, you, they" (Dec. 11 – 19)
  • subject and object combinations (Dec. 20 – 24)
  • miscellaneous examples (Dec. 25 – 31)
• November 2015: The lower body (and arms)
  • toe to knee (Nov. 1 – 7)
  • thigh, leg, arm (Nov. 8 – 14)
  • arms (Nov. 15 – 21)
  • miscellaneous body terms (Nov. 22 – 30)
• October 2015: Plants and trees
  • Oct. 1 – 10, Oct. 11 – 17, Oct. 18 – 24, Oct. 25 – 31
• September 2015: The upper body
  • the head and face (Sept. 1 – 7)
  • the face (Sept. 8 – 14)
  • chin to chest (Sept. 15 – 21)
  • the torso (Sept. 22 – 30)
• July – August 2015
  • sentences with koovúra "all" (July 26 – Aug. 1)
  • salmon and other fish (Aug. 2 – 8)
  • sentences that count things (Aug. 9 – 15)
  • miscellaneous (Aug. 16 – 22)
  • talking about the past (Aug. 23 – 31)
• June – July 2015
  • sentences with (i)p- "again, back" (May 31 – June 6)
  • commands (June 7 – 13)
  • sentences with locative -ak (June 14 – 20)
  • sentences with áta "maybe" (June 21 – 27)
  • times of the day (June 28 – July 4)
  • negative sentences (July 5 – 11)
  • days ahead and days past (July 12 – 18)
  • the suffix -ar "go to do something" (July 19 – 25)
• April – May 2015
  • March 29 – April 4, April 5 – 11, April 12 – 18, April 19 – 25, April 26 – May 2, May 3 – 10, May 18 – 23, May 24 – 30
• February – March 2015
  • Feb. 1 – 7, Feb. 8 – 14, Feb. 15 – 21, Feb. 22 – 28, March 1 – 7, March 8 – 14, March 15 – 21, March 22 – 28
• December 2014 – January 2015
  • Dec. 4 – 13, Dec. 14 – 20, Dec. 21 – 27, Dec. 28 – Jan. 3, Jan. 4 – 10, Jan. 11 – 17, Jan. 18 – 24, Jan. 25 – 31

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• Kayla Carpenter: "Aspectual Future in Karuk", UC Berkeley, 2014 (paper)
• Kayla Carpenter, Will Chang, Line Mikkelsen: "Going káruk, yúruk, sáruk or máruk? What a native language of California can tell us about its surroundings." Guest lecture in "The world according to Berkeley" (Letters & Sciences 110), UC Berkeley, April 25, 2012.
• Andrew Garrett, Clare Sandy, Erik Maier, Line Mikkelsen, and Patrick Davidson: "Developing the Karuk treebank", Fieldwork Forum, UC Berkeley, November 13, 2013 (slides)
• Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, Line Mikkelsen, and Clare Sandy" "Exploring Karuk morphology in a parsed text corpus", Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Portland, OR, Jan. 8, 2015. (slides)
• Line Mikkelsen: "What goes postverbal in a verb-final language? On the interplay of prosody, information structure, and word order in Karuk", Syntax Circle, UC Santa Cruz, October 24, 2014 (handout)
• Line Mikkelsen: "Degrees of word order freedom in Karuk", University of Arizona, March 31, 2014 (handout)
• Karie Moorman: "A Construction Grammar Analysis of -ara in Karuk", 2014 (paper)
• Karie Moorman: "Polyfunctionality of -ara in Karuk", UC Berkeley senior honors thesis, 2014 (paper)
• Clare Sandy: "Translating Diacritics: A Comparison of Historic Transcriptions of Karuk Accent". Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Minneapolis, MN, Jan. 3, 2014 (slides)
• Clare Sandy: "Tone and syllable structure in Karuk (Hokan, California)" In P. Littell, A. Gutiérrez, R. Girard, and N. Weber (eds.), Papers from the Seventeenth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 17), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 9-11 2012. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 36, pp. 37-58, 2014 (paper)
• Clare Sandy: "Bringing archival materials together to expand the Karuk text corpus". Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Portland, OR. (poster)
• Clare Sandy: "Default accent in Karuk: evidence for stratal phonology". Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Portland, OR. (poster)
• Line Mikkelsen: "Degrees of word order freedom in Karuk", Syntax and Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley, September 27, 2013 (handout)
• Clare Sandy: "Morphophonological Alternations in Karuk", Dissertation prospectus, UC Berkeley, 2013 (paper)
• Clare Sandy: "Prosodic prominence in Karuk", PhD dissertation, UC Berkeley, 2017 (online dissertation)

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Grammatical abbreviations

References

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The work of project participants at Berkeley and in the Karuk Tribe has been supported by many sources, including the following:

• Administration for Native Americans
• Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
• Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation
• Endangered Language Fund
• Northern California Indian Development Council
• Robert L. Oswalt Fund, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, UC Berkeley
• Violet Super Memorial Fund

Collaborating institutions

• Karuk Tribe
• Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Archival fieldnotes and recordings

• Karuk fieldnotes and manuscripts at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Karuk recordings at the Berkeley Language Center

Selected linguistic publications on Karuk

• William Bright, The Karok language (University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 13, 1957): PDF
• J. P. Harrington, "Karuk texts", International Journal of American Linguistics 6 (1930) 121-161: PDF
• John P. Harrington, Tobacco among the Karuk Indians of California (Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 94; 1932): PDF; other formats (Internet Archive)
• John P. Harrington, Karuk Indian myths (Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 107; 1932): PDF; other formats (Internet Archive)
• Sara M. Schenck and E. W. Gifford, "Karok ethnobotany", UC Berkeley Anthropological Records, vol. 13, no. 6 (1952): PDF
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuk_traditional_narratives

Other internet resources

• Karuk language page at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Karuk language resources on the web
• William Bright's Karuk language resources
• Karuk resources at the Open Language Archives Community
• Karuk vocabulary, organized by meaning, in the Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig