Yokuts people
The Yokuts (previously known as Mariposas) 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 erroneous. Yokut should only be used when referring specifically to the Tachi Yokut Tribe of Lemoore. Some of their descendants prefer to refer to themselves by their respective tribal names; they reject the term Yokuts,' saying that it is an exonym invented by English-speaking settlers and historians. Conventional subgroupi
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Yokuts
- Ethnic group.image
- Edward S. Curtis Collection People 069.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Chukchansi Yokuts woman,photo by Edward Curtis, 1924
- Ethnic group.total_year
- 2010
- Ethnic group.total
- 6,273 alone and in combination
- Ethnic group.popplace
- United States ( California)
- Ethnic group.rels
- traditional tribal religion, Christianity, Kuksu religion, previously Ghost Dance
- Ethnic group.langs
- English, Yokuts language
- Ethnic group.related
- Maidu, Miwok, Ohlone, and Wintu peoples
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Article
24 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-contact
- During contact
- Population
- Territory
- Language
- Diet
- Communities
- Yokuts tribes
- Delta Yokuts
- Northern Valley Yokuts
- Southern Valley Yokuts
- Foothill Yokuts
- Contemporary tribes
- Trading routes
- Internal conflicts within the Chukchansi tribe near Yosemite
- Notable Yokuts
- Tribal government
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
- Further reading
The Yokuts (previously known as Mariposas) 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 erroneous. Yokut should only be used when referring specifically to the Tachi Yokut Tribe of Lemoore. Some of their descendants prefer to refer to themselves by their respective tribal names; they reject the term Yokuts,' saying that it is an exonym invented by English-speaking settlers and historians. Conventional subgroupings include the Foothill Yokuts, Northern Valley Yokuts, and Southern Valley Yokuts.
==History== thumb|Map of traditional Yokuts territory