Yokuts

A people

The General Grant Tree, a giant sequoia, rising above the surrounding forest in Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park.
Marty Aligata, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Background

Yokuts means people, and the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe opens its own history with that word. The Tribe describes the Yokuts as a people rather than a single people, and says they were unique among the California natives in being divided into true tribes, each with a name, a language and a territory. It calls them seed-gatherers who did no farming at all in the days before Columbus, with acorns as their main food, joined by wild plants, roots and berries, and by deer, rabbits, prairie dogs, other small mammals and birds. Sequoia and Kings Canyon list the Yokuts among the five peoples whose homelands the parks cover, and their affiliated tribes include the Tule River Tribe and the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi-Yokut Tribe.

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Parks on its homelands

The General Grant Tree, a giant sequoia, rising above the surrounding forest in Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park.Kings Canyon National Park

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks name the Yokuts among the five peoples whose homelands they hold, and the Tule River Tribe and the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi-Yokut Tribe are on the park's list of fifteen federally recognized tribal governments. Source

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Checked September 2026.

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