May Tom's wooden grave marker in Yosemite National Park's cemetery. She was Piute and died when she was 14. A couple of years ago, during a cool Autumn day, as I was strolling through the Yosemite National Park cemetery, I came across a grave with a wooden marker. The grave was nestled around 10 other graves with Paiute Indian names I recognized. On one grave was the name May Tom, age 14,by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I just want to take a break from Yosemite – Mono Lake Native American history to wish everyone on the Yosemite board a Happy 4th of July (Peesha Watsukwe’yoo Tabeno Tatza Muha) Paiute Indians in Fourth of July Parade, Tonopah, Nevada, around 1900. Paiute men, women and children celebrating, participating in, and viewing 4th of July Independence Day parade in Tonopah (Greasewood Lakeby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiutes hunting Bighorn Sheep in the Sierra Nevada; documented by John Muir Recently there were stories in the news about Mountain Lions hunting and diminishing the struggling Bighorn Sheep population in eastern Yosemite through out Sierra Nevada. Both Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Lions have been struggling to survive in a diminishing environment as humans encroach on thby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Left; History of Merced County by Corwin Radcliffe, Right; biography of James Savage called "Big Jim Savage; Blonde King of the Indians and Discoverer of Yosemite" by Ben T. Traywick Recently I found this old book called “History of Merced County” by Central Valley historian Corwin Radcliffe. The book was published by A.H. Cawston in Merced, California in 1940. On page 58 iby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The end of the world What Yosemite - Mono Lake area Native Americans believed There has been a lot of talk that today, May 21, 2011 is going to be the end of the world. Well not exactly the end of the world, but the Rapture when good people will be taken away to Heaven, leaving the earth before the start of the final days. What did Paiutes believe would cause the end of the world? We foundby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteszalkowski QuoteYosemite_Indian Quotechick-on I had no idea that The Piutes were the original inhabitants of The Yosemite region. I always thought that they were from the Mono Lake area and forcibly overtook the Miwuks who would summer in Yosemite Valley. Thanks for the edumacation, Have a nice day Hey, your welcome. Actually Miwuks were afraid to enter Yosemite Valley and onlyby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on I had no idea that The Piutes were the original inhabitants of The Yosemite region. I always thought that they were from the Mono Lake area and forcibly overtook the Miwuks who would summer in Yosemite Valley. Thanks for the edumacation, Have a nice day Hey, your welcome. Actually Miwuks were afraid to enter Yosemite Valley and only felt safe to enter there when the miby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Edward Curtis, famous Indian and Western photographer While surfing the internet I came across a picture of a girl named Tenaya and as I searched further I saw a picture of a dog named Tenaya. As a Paiute I found it rather strange that a woman, especially a dog, would have the masculine name of Tenaya. If you are a frequent visitor of Yosemite or if you are a California historian you wouby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
John Muir Day is April 21st. Here is an interesting article about John Muir from an L.A. writer; Urban Idyl: John Muir in the New World of Los Angeles John Muir is considered one of the founders of America's environmental movement. Muir was also a purist. His vision for Yosemite was to see it as pristine and natural as possible and to keep it has natural as possible. But some have notby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Paiute Trout [ Numa Agai ]and Pine Nuts [ Tuba ] recipe. Paiute Trout and Pine Nuts recipe from the Eastern Sierra and Great Basin ___________________________________________________________ "Chief Tenaya was the Founder of the Paiute Colony of Ahwahnee"by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Clark's Station, located at Wawona Wawona was called Clark’s Station after Galen Clark, in 1857, established a trading post and resting stop midway between Yosemite, from the south, and valley below. Later Clark sold the station to a group of buyers. One of those buyers was named Washburn. The station was called Big Trees Station for a short period but in 1882 Washburn’s wife named the pby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The majority of Indian baskets in Yosemite were created by Paiutes, followed by the Washoes and Yokut Native American women. Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute Indian women started the trend of covering their baskets with bead work. They would either do traditional basket maker designs, birds, animals or scenes. Here is a beautiful modern beaded basket done by Paiute - Shoshone Rebecca Eagle-Lambert.by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It’s been a couple of months now, but we Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiutes want to acknowledge well known Yosemite area Indian Della Hern who passed away on January 15th 2011 in the town of Big Pine. Della Hern - In Native dress, wearing a Mono Paiute beaded collar. Della Hern was born 88 years ago in town of Lee Vining in Mono County on February 23rd 1922 to Lena Tom-Dondero. She was born alby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The non-profit has their own parking inside the Park "Tribal parking", and the non-profit will run the Indian Center exclusively. There are areas in the Indian Center only the non-profit can use, and is not open to the general public...and no one mentioned a casino. That sounds pretty 'private' to me. _____________________________________________________________________ "by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Last month through the Indian grape vine it was said that the chairman of the Southern Sierra Miwuk, also known as the American Indian Council of Mariposa, had to resign his post as chairman. The chairman reportedly had to resign because there was a conflict of interest based on the ethics clause of the Department of the Interior. It appears you cannot work for the National Park Service and haveby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Why did Yosemite give land to a NON-PROFIT? So would Yosemite National Park give land for other non-profit groups? The Southern Sierra Miwuks are not a tribe, but a non-profit. So why do they get free land INSIDE a National Park? Then the taxpayers had to pay for the building for the non-profit to use as their OWN PRIVATE building. Who gets their own private building in a National Park?by Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
You won't find the story of Chief Tenaya in Yosemite National Park. Maria Lebrado in Yosemite National Park Service sign located in Cook's Meadow Tenaya's story is not on any signs in the Park today. What Yosemite National Park has done is taken Tenaya's story out of Yosemite and has started with the story of Maria Lebrado Yrdte instead. Maria stated she is the grand daughter of Chief Teby Yosemite_Indian - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Did you notice this; "She lived in the Indian Village and married Ralph Parker, a Mono Lake Piute. His tribe's Yosemite roots date back nine generations. His mother, Lucy Telles, was a renowned basket maker and, along with the other Yosemite women, passed down their basketry skills to Parker.by Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Story about Julia Parker. One of the oldest Yosemite Park Rangers. The story also includes a video. Yosemite Basket Maker A Living Legand Here is the rest of the article; articleby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
What happened to the Native people of Yosemite? Where did they go? Where did the end up? http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/yourict/63083922.html Top photo; Piute boy in Yosemite. Bottom photo; Piute Chief in Yosemite. The earliest photos of photos taken of Indian people in Yosemite were of Paiutes. There is not one Yosemite photo titled Miwok in the late 1880s and early 1900s. But thereby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Dio Lewis describes Yosemite Natives in his book "Gypsies or why we went Gypsying in the Sierras", which he wrote on his camping trip in the area. Dio Lewis describes Yosemite Indians while he campedby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Quotebpnjensen QuoteYosemite_Indian Quotebpnjensen QuoteYosemite_Indian It's called setting the record straight and getting some justice for the Paiute people. I am merely curious - other than increased recognition about the presence and role of Paiutes in Yosemite's past, is there anything else you would hope to gain which you'd include under the heading "justice"? Thanks for askinby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Quotebpnjensen QuoteYosemite_Indian It's called setting the record straight and getting some justice for the Paiute people. I am merely curious - other than increased recognition about the presence and role of Paiutes in Yosemite's past, is there anything else you would hope to gain which you'd include under the heading "justice"? Thanks for asking bpnjensen. Here is what we wouby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Quoteeeek Maybe you should get DNA tests? Good idea eeek. We still have our elders and all we do is ask them...plus government documents. That is like you know you are Irish, and the Park is saying, no you are Greek. Yet all your ancestors are Irish for eons, but now the Park and a non-profit group, going to become a new nation as Greeks, is saying your Irish ancestors were Greeks. Yet yoby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
QuoteVince QuoteYosemite_Indian Quotebpnjensen QuoteYosemite_Indian It's called setting the record straight and getting some justice for the Paiute people. I am merely curious - other than increased recognition about the presence and role of Paiutes in Yosemite's past, is there anything else you would hope to gain which you'd include under the heading "justice"? The Park has taken oby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Quotebpnjensen QuoteYosemite_Indian It's called setting the record straight and getting some justice for the Paiute people. I am merely curious - other than increased recognition about the presence and role of Paiutes in Yosemite's past, is there anything else you would hope to gain which you'd include under the heading "justice"? The Park has taken our ancestors from us and labeledby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Thanks for the address. One of people contacted him.by Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
It's called setting the record straight and getting some justice for the Paiute people.by Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
Vince we Paiutes are related to the Aztecs from the South also.by Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion
szalkowski and you believe the Miwoks did if it was that cold? Do you believe that Miwoks could live in Yosemite during the Ice Age or Little Ice Age? What proof is there that Miwoks were even there? There is no evidence left that has been excavated that Miwoks or any other tribe was there besides Numic-Great Basin Indians. You have to go with what the earliest human evidence that was deposited iby Yosemite_Indian - General Discussion