Yokuts

American  

[yoh-kuhts] / ˈyoʊ kʌts /

noun

plural

Yokuts

1. 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.

2. a Penutian family of languages spoken by the Yokuts.

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Example Sentences

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

The measure does not specifically address Yokuts Valley — and some people in the county argue the town’s name never changed because the federal government had no right to intervene.

From Los Angeles Times

Driven from their lands, the surviving Yokuts ended up living on reservations or marginal lands that had little value to white farmers.

From Los Angeles Times

Dominguez is a leader of the Yowlumne Yokuts tribe, and her ancestors lived along the Kern River and its tributaries centuries ago.

From Los Angeles Times

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