Round 11: Tossup 12

A man born in this country was unable to tell an anthropologist his name because he needed to be introduced by another Yana speaker, all of whom (-5[1])had died out. (-5[1])Horace Miner (10[1])wrote a satirical article about “body ritual” in a group named after this country’s demonym spelled (10[1])backwards. (10[2])Alfred Kroeber studied Ishi, a man born in this country. A language from this country that lacks nouns for time inspired the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. The democratic Haudenosaunee (“HOH-din-oh-SHOH-nee”) confederacy was from this country in which the first anthropology department was established by Franz Boas. For 10 points, what country’s indigenous peoples include the Hopi and Iroquois? ■END■ (10[3])

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