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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 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 ...
Tachi is an endangered dialect of Southern Valley Yokuts historically spoken north of Tulare Lake in the Central Valley of California. A. L. Kroeber estimated that Tachi was, at one point, one of the most widely spoken Yokutsan dialects.
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;
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]
At the time of first European contact, the Yuchi people lived in what is now eastern Tennessee. [5] In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto described them as a powerful tribe known as the Uchi, that were also associated with the Chisca tribe. Both historical and archaeological evidence exists documenting several Yuchi towns of the 18th century.
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was born in 1843, in Brazos County, Texas, the youngest of the three sons of William Mayfield and his first wife, Terissa Faller, of Hardeman County, Tennessee. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] By 1848, his mother had died and his father was remarried, to Maria or Mary Ann Curd.
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