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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.
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.
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.
Kentucky Southern Cherokee—Osda Nuwati, Louisville, KY [91] Southeastern Kentucky Shawnee [86] [92] Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky. [46] [59] Ridgetop Shawnee Tribe of Indians, Hazard, KY, [93] received a congratulary resolution, HJR15 09RS in 2009 [94] Tribe of the Whitetop Band of Native Indians, [95] also The Whitetop Nation ...
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 Tachi Yokut Tribe is celebrating the return of California's Tulare Lake, saying water should remain to heal an ecosystem that was drained for agriculture.
The defeat of the Shawnee in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774 emboldened land speculators in North Carolina, who believed much of what is now Kentucky and Tennessee would soon be under British control. One such speculator, Richard Henderson (1734–1785), learned from his friend Daniel Boone that the Cherokee were interested in selling a large part ...
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.