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MARIPOSAN, or YOKUTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 724 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIPOSAN, or YOKUTS  , a linguistic stock of North
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American Indians, including some 40 small tribes . Its former territory was in
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southern California, around Tulare lake . The Mariposans were fishers and hunters . Their villages consisted of a single row of wedge-shaped huts, with an awning of brush along the front . In 1850 they numbered some 3000; in 1905 there were 154 on the Tule
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river reservation .

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