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This material has all been extracted for the Dictionary of Tribes by Dr Swanton.  Jwss.

Distribution of the [underlined]
SHOSHONEANS IN THE SAN JOAQUIN-TULARE VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA.

By A. L. Kroeber.

On the authority of Stephen Powers it has been stated many times that Shoshonean tribes related to the (so called) Paiuti had in comparatively recent times passed over the Sierras and invaded the territory of the Yokuts in the Tulare basin, possessing themselves of all the plains south and east of Tulare lake as far north as Deer creek or Tule river.  Actually the plains in this basin were nowhere in the possession of the Shoshoneans, who only held the mountains, and in some parts the foothills, to the south and west of it.  There is no evidence of any invasion of the valley by Shoshoneans, which must be regarded as entirely hypothetical, and the distribution of the Shoshonean tribes at the southern end of this basin, where members of three of the four main branches of the stock and of four entirely distinct dialectic groups [see below] are assembled within a range of a hundred miles, makes it probable that in part at least the Shoshoneans are not new-comers in this region of California.  [White River, Piso Creek, and Kern Lake stated by Powers to have been occupied by Shoshoneans, were all held by Yokuts; so was Kern River to above the falls.  See below.]

In the northern part of the San Joaquin valley the Shoshoneans apparently did not live west of the main divide of the Sierras.  In the southern part of the valley, where their neighbors are the Yokuts, they everywhere hold the higher portions of the western slope of the mountains,