Native American Life

Learning about the Yokuts Indians

We went to the Kern County Museum and learned about the California Indians. It was the Indian girls who collected acorns for food. They had to dry them for a long time. Then they ground the acorns into powder with a pestle and a rock with a hole in it. We got to grind acorns into flour. Then we saw many of the baskets that were made by the Yokut Indians. Yokut Indians lived around Bakersfield. We also saw a real Indian bow and arrow they used for hunting deer and rabbit. The end would come off so they would only lose the point of the arrow. We also saw a baby cradle made for a boy and another made for a girl.