GC2D2VC Yokut Territory (Traditional Cache) in California, United States created by Team Red Jeep

GC2D2VC ▼

A cache by Team Red Jeep Message this owner

Hidden : 8/8/2010

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Geocache Description:

The Native Americans who lived along this river and collected acorns among ancient groves were Yokuts. Yokuts living in the Valley date back to at least 8,000 years.

The Yokuts are an ethnic group of Native Americans native to central California. Prior to European contact, the Yokuts consisted of up to 60 separate tribes speaking the same language. Yokuts tribes populated the San Joaquin Valley from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta south to Bakersfield and also the adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which lies to the east. In the northern half of the Yokuts region, there were some tribes inhabiting the foothills of the Coast Range, which lies to the west. There are two types of houses that the Yokuts live in. They are the single-family dwellings and and the communal residences. Single family dwellings are built near sloughs and marshes. They consist of tule mats over a wooden frame. These dwellings are not dug out because water would seep in. The communal residences are long and steep-roofed. They are built so that as many as ten families can live in it with a fireplace and a door of their own. They would also build mat-covered buildings to keep dried food in, but these are also owned by the entire community. Families are made up of a husband, wife, and their children. This is the most basic family unit of the Valley Yokuts. They use totem symbols to indicate “patrilineal totemic lineage”. Totemic symbols are normally an animal which is not to be eaten and is praised and looked up to. The mother’s totem is never passed to her children, but she still prays to the one her father passed on to her and her siblings. Most often the paternal moiety is passed on, but if there was a large family the husband sometimes “gave” his wife one or two children who accepted the responsibilities of the mother.

Maybe fairly overgrown certian times of the year. Parking area and park close at sunset. BYOP