book chapter
The Yokuts: people of the land
Vanishing landscapes : land and life in the Tulare Lake Basin • Berkeley • Published In 1981 • Pages: 31-46, 251-270
By: Preston, William L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Preston discusses how the Yokuts interacted and affected their environment and how the environment affected Yokuts culture. The Yokuts learned to work with their environment through long interaction with it - the ancestors of the Yokuts settled in the Tulare Lake Basin 4000 to 3000 years ago. One of the ways they affected their environment was through the use of fire to encourage the growth of preferred food plants and game. The Yokuts were also known to plant native tobacco, prune elderberry bushes and grape vines, and to transplant plants and seeds. Preston also discusses Yokuts trade and what was traded and he discusses village locations in relation to environmental zones.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Population
- Diet
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yokuts
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yokuts; California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William L. Preston
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80006055
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yokuts Indians