Yokuts
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Yokuts
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a member of a North American Indian group of small tribes speaking related dialects and occupying the San Joaquin Valley of California and the adjoining eastern foothill regions. Nearly all the Valley Yokuts are extinct; some foothill groups remain.
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a Penutian family of languages spoken by the Yokuts.
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The Cholbon tribelet of the Northern Valley Yokuts tribe originally inhabited the area now called Mountain House, according to the Mountain House Community Services District.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Two other newly named places are the California Central Valley communities of Loybas Hill, which translates to “Young Lady,” proposed by the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians; and Yokuts Valley.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
In the 1800s, the Yowlumne Yokuts used ditches to irrigate crops in their villages, and gathered wild seeds and acorns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
The Wukchumni are one of the numerous tribes under the larger umbrella of the Yokuts, Indigenous people in the central San Joaquin Valley.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
Farther to the south, among the Yokuts of the Tulare basin, these ceremonies do not seem to have penetrated.
From The Religion of the Indians of California by A. L. Kroeber
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