The Yokuts (previously known as Mariposas[4]) are an ethnic group of Native Americans native to central California. Before European contact, the Yokuts consisted of up to 60 tribes speaking several related languages. Yokuts is both plural and singular; Yokut, while common, is …

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The Yokuts, also called Mariposan, a name derived from present-day Mariposa County, are native to central California. Yokuts means “person” or “people.” Members of the Penutian language family.

We believe the tribe along with others belonged to the first groups that settled in California. They are called the seed-gatherers because they did no farming at all in the days before Columbus. Their main food was acorns. The Yokuts also ate wild plants, roots, and berries.

Yokuts, North American Indians speaking a Penutian language and who historically inhabited the San Joaquin Valley and the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of the Fresno River in what is now California, U.S. The Yokuts were traditionally divided into tribelets, perhaps as many as 50, each having a dialect, territory, and name of its own.

Yokut women wore a skirt made in two pieces, a narrow fringed part in the front and a larger piece in the back. The skirts were made of tule reeds, marsh grass, or rabbit skins. Men wore a piece of deerskin around their hips, or else they went without clothes.

2021年8月6日 · Yokuts Indian Language website. California Indians and Their Reservations: An Online Dictionary. Available online.

2018年5月14日 · The groups classified under the name "Yokuts" include some forty to fifty subtribes which are usually distinguished by three main cultural and geographical divisions, the Northern Valley Yokuts, the Southern Valley Yokuts, and the Foothills Yokuts. The name "Yokuts" derives from a term in several of the Yokuts dialects that means "people."

Information and links about the Yokuts tribe past and present. Yokuts Legends. Introduction to Yokuts mythology. Our list of vocabulary words in Chukchansi, Choinimni, and Yowlumne Yokuts, with comparison to words in other Penutian languages.

Official homepages of two California Yokut tribes. Information from an organization representing the Kitanemuk and Yowlumne Indians of the Bakersfield area. Maps showing where in California the Yokuts people live. Curtis' early 20th-century ethnography of the Yokut tribe. General overview of Yokut Indian culture and history.