One day while climbing Battle Mountain, a hill next to my grandparents house, my grandfather told me the story of how Battle Mountain got its name. Battle Mountain got its name because there was a battle between the Yokut Indians and the white settlers over the land. The Indians were almost all killed because the settlers had guns, and the Indians did not. My Grandparents have an obsidian arrowhead that was found on Battle Mountain, that might have been from this battle. Another sign that the Yokuts lived there is the bedrock mortars on their property.
Bedrock mortars are bowl shaped holes in the rock where the Yokuts ground acorns into flour.
In this section I will explain what the Yokuts wore , how they traveled ,and their type of housing. Clothing During the warm seasons like spring and summer the children and men wore no clothes at all. Sometimes the men would wear a breechcloth tied around the waist with a woven grass belt. The women wore a two- sided apron, made of a grass mat in front and deer skin in the back. During winter the Yokuts would wear robes of animal skin with the fur still on it.