Manipulating Yosemite Indian history in the park for a few. How the Yosemite Interpretive signs mislead public and are not true.
Around a couple of years ago the Yosemite Fund, in association with Yosemite National Park, started to put up new interpretive signs around Yosemite to teach people the history of Yosemite.
Someone sent us a copy [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Interpretive signs mislead public about Yosemite Native American Indians
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Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 10
Posted in Ahwahnee, Ahwahni, California Indian basket, Chief Tenaya, Hetch Hetchy, Hetch Hetchy Native, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Hetch Hetchy Valley history, Hetch Hetchy history, Indian, Miwuk, Mono Lake, Mono Lake Indian, Paiute, Paiutes, Piute, Piutes, Southern Sierra Miwuk, Southern Sierra Miwuks, Tenaya, Yosemite, Yosemite Association, Yosemite Fund, Yosemite Indian photographs, Yosemite Miwok, Yosemite Miwok Legend, Yosemite Miwok Legends, Yosemite Miwoks, Yosemite Miwuk, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Native American, Yosemite Native American Hetch Hetchy American Indian h, Yosemite Native American photos, Yosemite Native photographs, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Visitor Center, Yosemite book, Yosemite history on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
William Keith’s Hetch Hetchy Side Canyon, home of Native American Paiute Indians.
Ralph Kuykendall wrote that few people ventured into Hetch Hetchy Valley because of the difficult inaccessibility into the valley from the western side. He also writes that John Muir knew of Mr. Smith, a sheepherder, who owned parts of Hetch Hetchy Valley before it was [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 9
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Tuolumne County
History
CHRONOLOGY OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY.
1849 – 1881
1853.
July 7. Simson B. Merril, from Maine, killed by Indians, in the mountains, 20 miles east of Sonora.
1856.
Sept. 22. Chilefio killed by an Indian at Springfield, in a gambling quarrel.
1858.
Feb. —. Perley killed by Indians in the mountains east of Sonora.
1861.
July 6. Jacob R. Giddis, Agent of the Tuolumne [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 8
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San Francisco Vigilantes ca. 1850s.
John Jolly was a native Englishman born June 13, 1823. He emigrated to the United States, sailing from Liverpool April, 1849, in the ship “Ajax,” Captain Adams, commander, as the second ship to leave England for the California gold fields. On arriving in California, he mined on Woods’ creek, and in [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 7
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Referrences of antique books of the Native people of Hetch Hetchy Valley.
The New West: or, California in 1867-1868By Charles Loring Brace
Printed ca. 1869
page 116
page 117, Pah Utahs or Paiute Indians in Hetch Hetchy Valley
Text from The New West;
“It has been seldom visited, the Pah Utahs (Paiutes), and the Big Creek tribes, disputing and fighting over [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 6
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John Bingaman was a well known Yosemite National Park ranger who worked almost all his adult life in the Valley. He knew most of Indian people of Yosemite and the surrounding area. Ranger John Bingaman wrote several books about the lives of Yosemite Indians who worked in the park.
Yosemite National Park Ranger John Bingaman on horseback, [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 5
Posted in Ahwahnee, Ahwahni, California Indian basket, Chief Tenaya, Hetch Hetchy, Hetch Hetchy Native, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Hetch Hetchy Valley history, Hetch Hetchy history, Indian, Mariposa, Mariposa Indian, Miwuk, Mono Lake, Mono Lake Indian, Paiute, Paiutes, Piute, Piutes, Southern Sierra Miwuk, Southern Sierra Miwuks, Tenaya, Yosemite, Yosemite Association, Yosemite Fund, Yosemite Indian photographs, Yosemite Miwok, Yosemite Miwok Legend, Yosemite Miwok Legends, Yosemite Miwoks, Yosemite Miwuk, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Native American, Yosemite Native American Hetch Hetchy American Indian h, Yosemite Native American photos, Yosemite Native photographs, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Visitor Center, Yosemite book, Yosemite history on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Muir, the father of the modern day environmental movement.
John Muir writes about his first visit into Hetch Hetchy that he took in 1872. He mentions Joe Screech one of the first men to enter the valley;
The Hetch Hetchy Valley
by John Muir
Boston Weekly Transcript, March 25, 1873
“Mr. Screech first visited this valley in the year [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 4
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Josiah D. Whitney was appointed state geologist of California in 1860. Whitney, along with William H. Brewer, Clarence King, Lorenzo Yates, and others, made an extensive survey of California, including the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite region. Excerpts on the Indians of Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite;
THE YOSEMITE BOOK by Josiah D. Whitney (1869)“This led to another [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 3
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Lady Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming wrote about her travels. She wrote this about her trip to Yosemite and about the indigenous Native Americans in Hetch Hetchy valley in her book “Granite Crags of California” dated 1888;
THE TUOLUMNE CANYON. pg 269“farther on the same mighty ridge, a series of majestic pinnacles of glittering white granite. They are known [...]
Hetch Hetchy Valley, before the dam – Native history part 2
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Famous Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Geologist: Francois E. Matthes.
From: The Sierra Nevada: The Range of Light edited by Roderick Peattie, a collection of writers.
Page 304
“I accompanied Francois E. Matthes on a geological expedition to Yosemite back country one year. We were camped on Moraine Ridge east of Hetch Hetchy, and he sent me scouting for [...]
