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Marie Wilcox. Marie Desma Wilcox (November 24, 1933 – September 25, 2021) [1] [2] [3] was a Native American who was the last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, which is a Yokutsan indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. [2] [4] She worked for more than 20 years on a dictionary of the language.
Before European contact, the Yokuts consisted of up to 60 tribes speaking the same language. Some of their descendants prefer to refer to themselves by their respective tribal names and reject the name Yokuts with the claim that it is an exonym invented by English speaking settlers and historians. [citation needed] "Maidu" means "People ...
Media in category "Yokuts" The following 32 files are in this category, out of 32 total. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1900) (18435676385).jpg 2,688 × 1,852; 1.18 MB
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield. 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.
Santa Rosa Rancheria is the reservation of the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria. It is located 4.5 miles (7.24 km) southeast of Lemoore, California. Established in 1934 on about 40 acres (16 hectares), the Santa Rosa Rancheria belongs to the federally recognized Tachi Yokuts tribe. It is the site of the Tachi Palace Hotel ...
Gashowu Yokuts. Language codes. ISO 639-3. (included in yok) Glottolog. gash1251 Gashowu [1] Gashowu was a Yokutsan language of California, spoken by the Gashowu Yokuts, or Casson .
some wounded. >100 killed. The Tule River War of 1856 was a conflict where American settlers, and later, California State Militia, and a detachment of the U. S. Army from Fort Miller, fought a six-week war against the Yokuts in the southern San Joaquin Valley. [1] [2]
