Karuk Tribe

The Karuk Tribe is a federally recognized Indian tribe of Karuk people. They are an indigenous people of California, located in the northwestern corner of the state, in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. The Karuk Tribe is one of the largest Indian tribes in California. Karuk Aboriginal Territory measures more than one-million acres and crosses the California-Oregon border. Karuk Aboriginal Terrority is unceded land occupied by federal and private landholdings administered predominately by the Six Rivers and Klamath National Forests, and the Pacific Region of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Tribe administers nearly ten-thousand acres of Tribal Trust and Tribal Fee Lands.

As a government organization, the Karuk Tribe of California has demonstrated its ability to administer a multitude of social, cultural, and economic programs effectively, earning the status of a "Self-Governance Tribe." The Tribal government currently employs more than 100 people in administrative, child welfare, community/economic development, education, elders, energy assistance, health, housing, human services, and natural resources programs. In little more than a decade, the Karuk Tribe has developed housing divisions, health clinics, libraries, local workforce infrastructure, and Head Start programs in Orleans, Happy Camp, and Yreka, its three government service areas. The Karuk Tribe also administers public health services, dental and medical clinical care, cultural fire return, prescribed and controlled burning, wildfire incident management, salmon fisheries enhancement projects, dam removal and habitat restoration, landscape-scale environmental monitoring and modeling, workforce development initiatives, Tribal archival and museum stewardship, data sovereignty policy development, GIS and geospatial services, and more.