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"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 Foothill Yokuts.  Their languages were much alike. "

"Yokuts men spent much of their time making hunting and fishing tools. Bows and arrows were built carefully to make them accurate. Young boys used a simple wooden arrow with the end sharpened to a point. With this arrow they could hunt small animals like birds and rabbits. Older boys and men made stone or bone points to put on their arrows. "

The Yokuts Indians lived in the part of California that we now call the Central Valley. Some of the early settlers called it the Valle de los Tulares, which means the Valley of the Tules. The valley was given this name because of the tules that grow on the shores of rivers and lakes.

General information about Native oral traditions, including the Yokuts.