Chimariko

Meanings

Noun

• A tribe that lived in a canyon on the Trinity River in California until they were all but destroyed in the mid-1800s, at which point survivors fled and assimilated into the Hupa and Shasta tribes.

Proper Noun

• The extinct language of this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.

Origin

• From Chimariko chimar ("person").