yokuts

n. member of a group of Native American tribes which inhabited the San Joaquin Valley in California; family of languages spoken by Yokuts tribes

The Yokuts or Mariposans are an ethnic group of Native Americans that live in Central California. Most Yokuts Indians reject the name Yokuts as an exonym invented by English-speaking settlers and historians, and prefer to refer to themselves by their tribal name. The Yokuts consisted of up to 60 ethnically and linguistically separate tribes pre-contact. The Yokuts lived in the San Joaquin Valley from the Delta south to Bakersfield.
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Noun
1. a Penutian language spoken by the Yokuts people in the San Joaquin Valley
(synonym) Mariposan
(hypernym) Penutian
2. a member of the North American Indian people of the San Joaquin Valley
(hypernym) Penutian