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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

MARIPOSAN, or YOKUTS , a linguistic stock of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians, including some 40 small tribes. Its former territory was in See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

California, around Tulare See also:

lake. The Mariposans were fishers and hunters. Their villages consisted of a single See also:

ROW, JOHN (c. 1525—1580)

row of See also:

WEDGE (O. Eng. wecg, a mass of metal, cognate with Dutch wig, wigge, Dan. vaegge, &c.; in Lith. the cognate form outside Teut. is found in wagis, a peg, spigot; there is no connexion with " weigh," " weight," which must be referred to the root wegh, to li

wedge-shaped huts, with an awning of See also:

brush along the front. In 1850 they numbered some 3000; in 1905 there were 154 on the Tule See also:

RIVER

river See also:

RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

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