Round 11: Tossup 12

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

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