Cassons or Casson is the name of a

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Native American tribe in central eastern

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. The Cassons are also called the Gashowu. The Casson Yokuts territory extended from the eastern side of

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floor eastward to the upper foothills, between the

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to the north and Kings River to south. The Cassons signed the Camp Barbour

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under Tom-qui

on the San Joaquin River, state of

, April 19, 1851. The treaty was signed by several Yokuts tribes and between Redick McKee, George W. Barbour, and

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, commissioners on the part of the

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. Casson Yokuts territory included Madera County and parts of

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County. The three chiefs who signed for the Cassons were Domingo Perez, Tom-mas and Jose Antonio. Many Native Californians had acquired

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names during the

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Period. The Cassons, like other Yokuts, and central

Native groups, were pushed from their homes in the

to reservations after they signed several treaties, including the Camp Barbour Treaty. The Barbour Treaty,

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and other California treaties were never ratified. Several Casson Yokuts families went to work for

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in the early 1900s. Like the surrounding tribes, the

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and the

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, they resided there half year and returned to their tribal areas. Later in the late 1920s,

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built homes for their Native American workers.

External links

Info about Yokuts by the Minnesota state university

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20100721055106/http://www.gerlecreek.com/dumnayokuts/dumnayokuts.htm Casson Yokuts
Casson Yokuts BIA case

The site also includes the neighboring Western Monos. Western Monos were located eastward of the Cassons Yokuts in the high Sierra Nevada and are part of the Uto-Aztecan Numic people.

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