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 Teacher.” A wagtail stomped upon patches of mud to create land in the creation legend of this people, whose men may wear (*) sapanpe (“suh-PAWN-pay”) crowns 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. These people, who traditionally worshiped the owl deity Cikap and the killer whale god Repun, perform a ritual called iomante, (10[3])during which they 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? ■END■

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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Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere12410
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 12410
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit12410
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken12810
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers14310

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