This video is dedicated to the early people of Yosemite, Mono Lake and Hetch Hetchy Valley. Every photo is of a Paiute person IN Yosemite. There are very few of Miwoks in early photos of Yosemite Valley. The majority are of Paiutes, until around the 1920s, before that they were mainly Paiutes. Then those photos of “Miwoks”, after genelocigal research, indicated that they were really mainly Yokuts.
“Chief Tenaya was the founder of the Paiute Colony of Ahwahnee” and “Tenaya spoke a Paiute jargon” from the ‘bible’ of Yosemite Indian history in Lafayette H. Bunnell’s book the Discovery of the Yosemite.
Today Yosemite National Park Service is trying to erase the memory of the Paiutes in Yosemite National Park, who were the main American Indian people of Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy and Mono Lake.
Great video! Tom Hutchings was a Mono Paiute Indian and I went to Yosemite National Park and they have a sign with him as a Miwok, what is that about?
Someone is doing something funny at the park…and not funny, ha, ha.