One of the earliest Yosemite area photographers was a man named M. M. Hazeltine. Hazeltine took this photo of two Paiute men with their catch while in Yosemite. This is a very rare photo. The Hazeltine photo is titled "Piute Indians in Yosemite". Here is a close up of the photo; In the Yosemite area Paiutes were known to be the best fisherman during this time.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It is a very sad thing to see this happen. The petroglyphs are not only a Paiute treasure, but also a treasure for the whole world.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The area you mentioned "(Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada)" are places where the Paiutes live or their cousins the Hopi lived. The only Indian group that tried to stop the 'gold rush invasion" around the Yosemite area were the Paiutes, like Chief Tenaya. Tenaya and the Paiutes were the only ones who did not sign the Barbour or Fremont treaties giving up their land rights.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The photo of Indian miners are mixed in with other types of miners. Weber and other influential whites had a couple of white men as overseers or lead men to over see the Indian work force like supervisors. Rich men like Weber could not have become even MORE wealthier digging his own gold. It is more profitable to get a large low paid work force to do your job for you in exchange for cheap provisiby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Indian miners, California Gold Rush, in the western Sierra Nevada, dated 1849(two years before the discovery of Yosemite) There is one fact that is overlooked when dealing with the history of Yosemite, and that is the direct involvement of Indian miners around Yosemite. Many people don't like to mention it when looking at the early Native American history of California, especially when talkiby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
A San Francisco-based environmental group, Restore Hetch Hetchy, turned in enough signatures on Monday supporting an effort to place a measure on the city's November ballot that would radically reform the way much of the Bay Area gets its drinking water. Hetch Hetchy on the San Francisco ballot this Nov.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Thank you. The kids really loved Tenaya Lake, but what caught their facsination was when they turned around a caught a glimpse of three rock climbers scaling the southern part of Polly Dome across from the lake. They watched for several minutes as a group of climbers scaled the side of the rock. We told them that is how we got the name "Mono" (which some Paiutes and Monos disagree oby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
My great nephew Nathan returned to Yosemite since he was a baby. Even though we visit Yosemite quite often it is harder for some of our other family members to visit, especially those who live further away. This week we took our niece and her family to Yosemite to visit our ancestral homeland and in this photo our great nephew, Nathan, really loved the waters of Tenaya Lake. This is the same placby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
John P. Soule We wanted to share this stereograph photo by John P. Soule taken in Yosemite Valley in 1870. The photo is of “Piute” acorn caches with uhmachas on the side. In the background is South Dome shrouded in clouds. John P. Soule stereograph Up close of the photo; you can see the acorn caches are up high and in the forefront the Park was in serious need of grass maintenanby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Wow, beau-tee-full, and very informative.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Yosemite Indian souvenir doll with two small Indians in canoes Blast from the past an old celluloid plastic type souvenir Indian chief doll with. The doll has a typical Plains Indian chief's headdress. The doll has “Yosemite Natl. Park” on the front. His arms move and he measures 8 ½ inches tall. On the back it has Japan, RG Patent No 32785 on the back. Yosby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The top photo is from 1946, the other photo is a mixture from the late 40s. Of course the Stewart Indian school is much older, because the school changed. More buildings were bulit later and it was upgraded. If you visit the Park quite often and visit the Indian Museum you might recognize one of the students in the photo in the video below; Julia Domingues - Parker, 2nd row....her husbby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Stewart Indian School Photo; Several Yosemite Indian children used to go to school in Stewart. A class photo with many Yosemite, Lee Vining (Mono Lake), Bishop and Bridgeport Indian teens. Many children of the original Indians of Yosemite were also enrolled in the Stewart Indian School. They would go to school during the regular school season and return to Yosemite and Mono Lake during summby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Fantastic photos. I love night shots.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Paintings of Yosemite many times included Indians Albert Bierstadt painting Paiute Indians in Yosemite This week in Yosemite there was an exhibition of Yosemite paintings, from the early masters like Thomas Hill, Bierstadt to modern painters. The exhibit is being held in the Indian Museum extension. We noticed was that the majority of early paintings also included Indians. They were eiby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
No one is forcing you to read anything. I could care less if you read or posted on any HISTORICAL Yosemite article I post. Maybe if you learned the real history of Yosemite you would know what is really going on. Yosemite is more than just a place for you to hike...it was the homeland of the Paiute people.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Amy Rhoan, Yosemite – Mono Lake Paiute in Yosemite in front of umacha Last week Yosemite and Mono Lake Indians lost a treasure in the local Native Community when a icon of Yosemite, Amy Rhoan, died. Amy Rhoan Amy Harrison was born on Jan. 29, 1910, a fullblooded Paiute, to Ida and Willie Harrison in Mono Lake. She spent her childhood around Mono Lake, particularly around the Farriby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
There is a group that claim ancestry to Chief Tenaya who were part of the Southern Sierra Miwuk, but around 2000 they were thrown out by the leadership of the AICM, or Miwoks, for causing ‘problems’ for Yosemite National Park. Around the year 2000 Yosemite National Park was excavating the site for a new bathroom located at the lower Yosemite Falls area when the descendents of Chief Tenayaby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The Southern Sierra Miwuks have been going for federal recognition for 30 years. They were finally up for recognition by the Office of Federal Acknowledgement in Oct 2011. The Office of Federal Acknowledgement is part of the Department of the Interior which handles the process of creating federally recognized tribes. A newspaper article came out in the Mariposa Gazette with the Southern Sierrby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
He tweeted one of our members back who told him "congrats" "@Yosemite_Paiute we had the time of our lives! Sure was an adventure lol. @Heidi_Holiday & I fell even deeper in love in Yosemite!!"by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Photo of Paiute Bridgeport Tom taken in Yosemite and testimony of Tom about Chief Towa Bridgeport Tom was one of the major patriarchal Indian leaders of Yosemite, Mono Lake, Bridgeport, Coleville and Bishop. He was also the patriarch of many of the descendents of the Kutzadika’a Mono Lake Paiutes AND the Southern Sierra Miwuk. Bridgeport Tom relates a story of Chief Towa and leader ofby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
LOL good catch. I didn't see it until you mentioned it.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I kinda see it as a positive. Durbin is a 23 year old and I think it might draw more interest towards Yosemite from a demographic who might not think about Yosemite. He also gives out some good advice for 1st time visitors to Yosemite.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
James Durbin, the hard rocker from American Idol season 10, took his wife and honeymooned in Yosemite. James Durbin appeared on last weeks American Idol to perform his new rock single "Higher Than Heaven". He told a reporter he recently honeymooned in Yosemite, seeing the sites and telling people they should stay several days to see the whole grandour of the Park; American Idol roby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The "Southern Sierra Miwuks" have been extremely quiet about all this. What some of their elders have said is this "Well we were born here in Yosemite (Yosemite National Park)". But just beause someone was born in the Park doesn't mean their people were originaly from there. Their parents were working for the Park. Decades ago Superintendent Thomson hand picked the Indiansby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
News article emphasizes the problem with Yosemite Native American History Lucy Telles, Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute basket in the Yosemite Indian Museum This is a recent article that appeared in an Oregon news site about travel and Yosemite National Park. See below; Yosemite National Park Travel - vacation article This is what caught our attention in this article; “The hub of humaby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Not if they were speaking broken Spanish, and Spanish was Bautista's 2nd language. The Paiutes had heard this myth along time ago and goes with the story of Tenaya, plus as I posted above it was the Miwok Chief, Chief Bautista who gave the name "Yosemite" to the whites, not the Ahwahneechees themselves. In another reported newspaper article Bautista called the Ahwahneechees the name &quby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
We Paiutes, the original Ahwahneechees don't have the word Oso'mates. This is the name given to him by the Miwok Chief when describing Tenaya and his band. We just put it in the story to show where the name came from, and the name came from the neighboring tribe. Remember who told the white battalion the name Yosemite? It was not Chief Tenaya or his people the Ahwahneechees. It was Chief Bautistaby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
This Indian legend goes back through time. When Tenaya was a young man one day he was wandering in the Yosemite Valley gazing upon the grandour of Half Dome, distracted by its encompassing beauty he didn’t see a large grizzly bear approaching him. Tenaya suddenly found himself in a life and death struggle with the large grizzly bear as the bear was tearing at him. In a last desperate attempby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Merced Riverby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion