The Yokuts (previously known as Mariposas [4]) are an ethnic group of Native Americans native to central California. Before European contact, the Yokuts consisted of up to 60 tribes speaking several related languages.

Yokuts, North American Indians speaking a Penutian language and who historically inhabited the San Joaquin Valley and the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of the Fresno River in what is now California, U.S. The Yokuts were traditionally …

The Yokuts, also called Mariposan, a name derived from present-day Mariposa County, are native to central California. Yokuts means “person” or “people.” Members of the Penutian language family.

Yokuts 亦称马利波萨人(Mariposan)。 加利福尼亚印第安人，操佩纽蒂语族(Penutian)语言，居住在弗雷斯诺(Fresno)河以南圣华金谷地及内华达山脉西麓。

The groups classified under the name "Yokuts" include some forty to fifty subtribes which are usually distinguished by three main cultural and geographical divisions, the Northern Valley Yokuts, the Southern Valley Yokuts, and the Foothills Yokuts.

2018年5月14日 · The Yokuts origin myth depicts a world covered with water, which is transformed by the action of Eagle, who takes mud brought from the depths by an aquatic bird, mixes it with seeds, and allows it to expand to form the earth. The Yokuts believed in a variety of localized spirits, some of whom were potentially evil. Religious Practitioners.

The Yokuts occupied a strip about 250 miles long in the central San Joaquin valley and a smaller strip of the eastern foothills that rise along the southern half of the valley. The Yokuts are sometimes divided into the Southern Valley Yokuts, the Northern Valley Yokuts, and the …

Historical background: Yokuts is a term referring to a large number of peoples of the Central Valley of California and the Sierra foothills, all of whom spoke similar languages. The Spanish encountered the Yokuts very early in their land explorations, at least as early as the 1770s, but the Yokuts began to join the missions around 1811.

The Yokuts are a grouping of California Indians who live in the San Joaquin Valley in central California. There is no Yokuts tribe. Before the arrival of Europeans, there were about 50 separate tribes living there. They spoke a similar language, but each tribe had a …

Yokuts traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Yokuts people of the San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra Nevada foothills of central California. Yokuts narratives constitute one of the most abundantly documented oral …