title: Yokuts traditional narratives
text: # Yokuts traditional narratives
  
  Yokuts traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Yokuts people of the San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra Nevada foothills of central California.
  
  Yokuts narratives constitute one of the most abundantly documented oral literatures in the state. They clearly belong to the central California tradition.
  
  