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The Choinumni were one of the many tribes of the Yokuts people that live in the San Joaquin Valley of California.The Choinumni lived on the Kings River.Their culture is especially well known from the account of Thomas Jefferson Mayfield who was raised among them, at a village, opposite the mouth of Sycamore Creek, on the south bank of the Kings River, just above, what is now Trimmer ...
Tulare Lake was a population center for the Yokuts tribes until they were driven off by white settlers."..In 1858 or 1859, settlers began ethnically cleansing Tulare Lake, by killing or forcibly relocating the majority of the Yokuts population. Severe floods in 1861 and 1867 killed thousands of cattle and caused settlers to request further dams ...
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).
This American Life story on Picayune Ranchería Chukchansi "Park Service Announces Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians to Receive $51,201 in Historic Preservation Grant Dollars for American Indian Tribes" "Topics in Chukchansi Yokuts Phonology and Morphology
The Wukchumni spoke traditionally a dialect of the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts language, also called Wukchumni. Marie Wilcox, born 1933, was the last native speaker of Wukchumni. She died October 7, 2021. [3] In the early 2000s, she and her daughter Jennifer Malone aimed to create a Wukchumni dictionary.
Yoscolo, a Yokuts Indian from the Mission Santa Clara, joined Estanislao's group in 1831. Yoscolo brought several hundred Indians with him from the Mission Santa Clara. Yoscolo and Estanislao led many raids against Mexican settlers. Yoscolo was different from Estanislao and did not mind killing Mexican settlers if he had to.
As we were on the way home from the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (held each year in Stamford, Connecticut), it seemed especially appropriate. As a crossword blogger, I realized there was ...
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield (1843–1928) led a remarkable double life in the early decades of California statehood, living his boyhood as an adopted member of the Choinumni (Choinumne) branch of the Yokuts tribe in the San Joaquin Valley, then rejoining the dominant Anglo-American community throughout his long adulthood.