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Map of traditional Yokuts territory. Another name used to refer to the Yokuts was Mariposans. [7] The endonym "Yokuts" itself means "people." [8] Many stories are told, depending on the tribe, on how the Yokuts and their land came to be, but most follow a similar form. [9] Their creation story is such: Once the world was completely covered in ...
When Yoimut was 17, Paiute Indians from Nevada came and organized a Ghost Dance in Eshom Valley. [6] When the dance was nearly finished Pleas Work and his brother Mitch came and told the dancers that white people were coming to kill them all. They evacuated the valley without clothes or food. They hid in a canyon on near the Kings River. After ...
In East Tennessee, most people favored remaining in the Union. [95] In 1860, slaves composed about 25% of Tennessee's population, the lowest share among the states that joined the Confederacy. [96] Tennessee provided more Union troops than any other Confederate state, and the second-highest number of Confederate troops, behind Virginia.
Pages in category "Yokuts" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ... Tejon Indian Tribe;
Occasionally, strong or violent tornadoes occur, such as the devastating April 2011 tornadoes that killed twenty people in North Georgia and Southeast Tennessee. [61] On average, the state has 15 tornadoes per year. [62] Tornadoes in Tennessee can be severe, and Tennessee leads the nation in the percentage of total tornadoes which have ...
The Tamcan spoke the Delta Yokuts language. The first Delta Yokuts vocabulary was recorded at Pleasanton, California by Alphonse Pinart in 1880. Pinart called the language "Tcholovones, or better Colovomnes" and wrote that it was a variant on the "Tulareños" languages spoken on the San Joaquin River and at Tulare Lake (now known to be the Yokuts language family).
Traditionally, 60 Yokuts tribes lived-in south-central California to the east of Porterville. By the end of the 19th century their population was reduced by 75% due to warfare and high fatalities from European diseases. The surviving Yokuts banded together on the Tule River Reservation, including the Yowlumne, Wukchumni bands of Yokut. [3]
Toqua (Cherokee: ᏙᏉ, romanized: Toquo) was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern Woodlands.Toqua was the site of a substantial ancestral town that thrived during the Mississippian period (1000-1600 CE).