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The Yokuts were reduced by around 93% between 1850 and 1900, with many of the survivors being forced into indentured servitude sanctioned by the so-called "California State Act for the Government and Protection of Indians". A few Valley Yokuts remain, the most prominent tribe among them being the Tachi Yokut.
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]
The term "Mono" is from a Yokutsan loanword from the tribe's southwestern neighbors, the Yokuts, who designated the band living around Mono Lake as monachie/monoache ("fly people") because fly larvae were their chief food staple and trading article. Later researchers believed this term referred to both the Kucadɨkadɨ and their southern Mono ...
Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indians of Missouri and Arkansas. [25] [30] [32] Letter of Intent to Petition 07/26/1985. [27] Also in Missouri. Old Settler Cherokee Nation of Arkansas. [25] Letter of Intent to Petition 9/17/1999. [27] Ouachita Cherokee of Cherokee Nation West, Mena, AR [48] Ozark Mountain Cherokee Tribe of Arkansas and Missouri ...
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;
He also continued his research into the Yokuts, interviewing more than 200 elders and a number of settlers. From this information gathered for more than a half-century, Latta compiled and published the Handbook of Yokuts Indians (1949). The first edition was published in a limited issue of 500 copies, through the Kern County Museum.
The tribe owns and operates Table Mountain Casino and Resort and Eagle Springs Golf Course, both in Friant. Table Mountain Casino Resort includes a casino, twelve story hotel, Eagle's Landing Steakhouse, Sukai Teppanyaki restaurant (above the hotel tower), Blue Oak Grille, Native Gathering Grounds coffee shop, and a few fast service restaurants all in a single building.
The Lakisamni, or alternately Laquisimne, (Spanish: Laquisimes) are one of the divisions of the Yokuts people, indigenous to the Stanislaus River area in California. [1] The Lakisamni probably inhabited the land in the San Joaquin Valley, from present-day Ripon in the west to Knights Ferry in the east. Mortar stones on the rocks in the banks of ...