Yokuts

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The Native American Yokuts of the San Joaquin Valley and the adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada in south-central California, traditionally included some forty to fifty subtribes grouped into three divisions; the Northern Valley Yokuts, the Southern Valley Yokuts, and the Foothills Yokuts. Traditionally the Yokuts were foragers with substantial regional variation as to their dependence on fishing, hunting, and gathering. They lived mostly in permanent residences. The Yokuts were heavily engaged in trade with their neighbors prior to European contact. The Yokuts recognized by the federal government live on the Picayune, Santa Rosa, and Table Mountain rancherias and the Tule River Reservation in California.

Identifier

Region

• North America

Subregion

• Northwest Coast and California

Subsistence Type

• hunter-gatherers

Samples

• EA
• SCCS
• SRS

Countries

• United States

External Links

• Southern Valley Yokuts (Binford Hunter-Gatherer) D-PLACE
• Wukchumni (Binford Hunter-Gatherer) D-PLACE
• Northern Foothills Yokuts (Binford Hunter-Gatherer) D-PLACE
• Southern Valley Yokuts (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Wukchumni (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Northern Foothill Yokuts (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Northern Foothills Yokuts (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• Kings River Yokuts (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• Wukchumni (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• Southern Valley Yokuts (Lake) (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• Southern Valley Yokuts (Yauelmani) (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE
• Southern Valley Yokuts (Standard Cross-Cultural Sample) D-PLACE