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A few Valley Yokuts remain, the most prominent tribe among them being the Tachi Yokut. Kroeber estimated the population of the Yokuts in 1910 as 600. Today about 2,000 Yokuts are enrolled in the federally recognized tribe. An estimated 600 Yokuts are said to belong to unrecognized tribes. [2]
The Tule River Reservation is located in Tulare County, California. [1]: 137 The reservation was made up of Yokuts, about 200 Yowlumne, Wukchumnis, [2] and Western Mono and Tübatulabal. [3] Tribal enrollment today is approximately 1,857 with 1,033 living on the Reservation. [3]
The speakers of Yokuts were severely affected by disease, missionaries, and the Gold Rush. While descendants of Yokuts speakers currently number in the thousands, all constituent dialects apart from Valley Yokuts are now extinct. Map of Yokuts with dialects indicated. The Yawelmani dialect of Valley Yokuts has been a focus of much linguistic ...
Southern Valley Yokuts is a dialect network within the Valley Yokuts division of the Yokutsan languages spoken in the Central Valley of California. [ 1 ] Among the dialects grouped under the label Southern Valley Yokuts are Wechihi , Tachi , Telamni , Chunut , Wowol , Yawelmani , Nutunutu , Wo'lasi , Choynok , and Koyeti .
The Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of indigenous people of California, affiliated with the Chukchansi subgroup of the Foothills Yokuts. The Picayune Rancheria, founded in 1912 and located in Coarsegold, California, covers 160 acres (1 km 2) in Madera County and serves as the tribal land.
The Fresno County foothill community has been at the center of a controversial name change.
Native Americans won state backing to ban a term used to denigrate Native women from geographic place names. Fresno County says the state should butt out.
Fire started by lightning has always been a part of the natural life cycle in the Western U.S., and for centuries Native Americans also carried out controlled burns, referred to as cultural burns ...