The Wukchumni (English: /wʌkˈtʃʌmni/) are a Yokuts tribe of California with about 200 members, residing on the Tule River Reservation.
3000 years ago, they broke off from the main Yokuts group and settled in the region of the east fork of the Kaweah River.
[2] They went to Hockett Meadow and White Chief Bowl in Sequoia National Park to hunt and trade with the neighboring Paiute people.
It was estimated before European contact the Yokut population reached 50,000, but today, there are less than 200 self-identified Wukchumni people alive.
When she realized that young tribal members were taking an interest in learning, she worked to make a lexical dictionary.