Stories of Pahi-zoho, Bigfoot, in Central California. Sasquatch
My relatives have told me stories of the encounters that the Paiute people had with the Big Foots or Sasquatch as they are sometimes called. In the Paiute language we have different names for them, one is Pahi-zoho. There were some with red hair, brown hair and black hair. [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Paiute encounters with Bigfoot like Creatures.
Posted in Ahwahnee, Big Foot, Bigfoot, Bigfoots, 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, Sasquatch, Tenaya, Yeti, Yosemite, Yosemite Association, Yosemite Fund, Yosemite Indian Village, Yosemite Indian photographs, Yosemite Miwok, Yosemite Miwok Legends, Yosemite Miwoks, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Native American, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Visitor Center, Yosemite book, Yosemite history, tagged , Big Foot, Bigfoot, Mono Lake Indian, Mono Lake Indians, Mono Lake Paiute, Yosemite Indian, Yosemite indigenous, Yosemite indigenous people, Yosemite Native, Yosemite Native American on November 30, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Yosemite Indian Village, too many villages, not enough Miwuks
Posted in Ahwahnee, Ahwahni, C. Hart Merriam, California Indian basket, California Native American 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 Village, Yosemite Indian baskets, 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 basket, Yosemite Native American photos, Yosemite Native photographs, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Visitor Center, Yosemite basket, Yosemite basket maker, Yosemite book, Yosemite history, Yosemite interpretive signs, Yosemite photograph on November 2, 2007 | 18 Comments »
This is taken from a great blog by a another Paiute who has been examining Yosemite Indian History.
C. Hart Merriam
In 1910 Bay area ethnologist C. Hart Merriam was looking for the Yosemite Miwoks written about by Overland Monthly journalist Stephen Powers.
Merriam, like other white ethnologists, never read Lafayette Bunnell’s personal account of the Mariposa Battalion. [...]
Yosemite Miwok Indian basket makers or Mono Lake Paiute basket makers in Yosemite?
Posted in Ahwahnee, Ahwahni, Ahwahnichi, Ahwahnichis, Benton Paiute tribe, Big Pine Paiute, Bishop Paiute tribe, California Indian basket, California Native American Indian basket, Chief Tenaya, Coleville Indian, Eadweard Muybridge, Hetch Hetchy, Hetch Hetchy Native, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Hetch Hetchy Valley history, Hetch Hetchy history, Indian, Kutzadika'a, Lone Pine Paiute, Mariposa, Mariposa Indian, Mirror Lake, Miwuk, Mono Lake, Mono Lake Indian, Paiute, Paiutes, Piute, Piutes, Southern Sierra Miwuk, Southern Sierra Miwuks, Tenaya, Tenaya Lake, Tuolumne County history, Yosemite, Yosemite Association, Yosemite Fund, Yosemite Indian Village, Yosemite Indian baskets, 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 basket, Yosemite Native American photos, Yosemite Native photographs, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Visitor Center, Yosemite basket, Yosemite basket maker, Yosemite book, Yosemite history, Yosemite interpretive signs, Yosemite photograph, Yosemite photography, tagged Mono Lake Indian, Mono Lake Indians, Mono Lake Paiute, Yosemite Indian, Yosemite indigenous, Yosemite indigenous people, Yosemite Native, Yosemite Native American on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Carrie Bethel Basket – Full blooded Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute.
The Baskets of Yosemite and the basket makers: What people see on the internet is not always what the truth really is.
What we are going to do today is a lesson for all you Paiutes out there about misinformation that is on the web concerning the tribal [...]
