Question

Legendarily, these people once lived alongside a race of tiny fisherman who lived beneath the leaves of the butterbur plant. A culture hero of these people who wields a mugwort spear was born from an elm tree. The hearth goddess of these people instructed women to make sacred girdles called kut, for which she is known as the “People (-5[1])Teacher.” A wagtail stomped upon patches of mud to (15[1])create land (15[1])in the creation legend of this people, (15[1])whose men may wear (*) sapanpe (“suh-PAWN-pay”) crowns (10[1])decorated with shaved wooden sticks called inaw (“ee-NAW-oo”). Members of this people group tell wepeker (“way-PAY-kair”) folktales and recount longer epics known as yukar. (10[1])These people, (10[1])who traditionally (10[1])worshiped (10[1])the owl deity Cikap and the killer whale god Repun, (10[1])perform a ritual (-5[1])called iomante, (10[4])during which (10[2])they (10[1])would (10[1])drink the blood of a sacrificed bear cub. For 10 points, what people who revere (10[1])kamuy (“kah-MOO-ee”) are indigenous to Hokkaido? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Ainu people [or Utari] (The first sentence refers to korpokkur; the second sentence refers to Ae-oynu-Kamuy; the third to Kamuy-huci.)
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