Hometwoli

The Hometwoli were a Yokuts people of the southern San Joaquin Valley, whose villages stood around Kern Lake. Their language was a variety of Buena Vista Yokuts, spoken in the southern part of the Tulare Basin. One village, Halau, lay near the channel connecting Kern Lake with Buena Vista Lake. The Kern River fed a network of channels and wetlands here, giving the lakeside communities a homeland shaped by the shifting waters of the valley floor.