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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]
Tule–Kaweah was a major dialect of the Yokuts language of California, or possibly a distinct but closely related language. [2]Wukchumni, the last surviving dialect, had [when?] only one native or fluent speaker, Marie Wilcox (both native and fluent), who compiled a dictionary of the language.
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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;
Yawelmani Yokuts (also spelled Yowlumne and Yauelmani) is an endangered dialect of Southern Valley Yokuts historically spoken by the Yokuts living along the Kern River north of Kern Lake in the Central Valley of California. [2] Today, most Yawelmani speakers live on or near the Tule River Reservation. [3]
The Wukchumni (English: / w ʌ k ˈ tʃ ʌ m n i /) are a Yokuts tribe of California with about 200 members, residing on the Tule River Reservation. 3000 years ago, they broke off from the main Yokuts group and settled in the region of the east fork of the Kaweah River.
Painted Rock is an archaeological and sacred site of the Yokuts of the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation in Tulare County, California. [1] [2] Painted Rock contains petroglyphs visited and described by Walter James Hoffman in 1882 [3] and by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1903. [4]