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Yokuts

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Yokuts , Native North Americans of S California. Their culture was essentially that of the California cultural area, and their basketry and pictographs are notable. In the late 18th cent. the Yokuts population was about 18,000; in 1990 it was under 3,000. The Yokuts, or Mariposan, languages are a branch of the Penutian linguistic family (see Native American Languages ).

Bibliography: See H. F. Hughes, The Valley of the Yokuts (1940).


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