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Fresno Bee and the Yosemite Miwok, I mean Yosemite Paiutes.

Paiute Yosemite story - Fresno Bee article and responses.

Submitted by Yosemite_Indian on Thu, 2008-01-17 01:28.Posted in Politics/Social Action | Yosemite_Indian’s blog »

Fresno Bee does an article about compliants Paiutes have about Yosemite National Park Service working with and helping their current and former Indian employees, the Southern Sierra Miwuks aka the American Indian Council [...]

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Paiute people in Yosemite still getting coal for Christmas from Yosemite NPS

This story has been hiting the Paiute email curcuit. This article appeared in the Sacramento News and Review right before Christmas;
 http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=607705
 Paiutes are still getting a piece of coal in their stocking for Christmas this year from Yosemite National Park Service. It is same thing the Yosemite - Mono Lake Paiutes have been getting every year from [...]

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One of the most famous photos of Native people in Yosemite is this photograph taken by J. T. Boysen in 1901.
The Icon of early Yosemite Native American Indian life.

The photo is of Suzie and her young daughter Sadie McGowan in Yosemite Valley, Ca. 1901, taken by J. T. Boysen.
The photo is a beautiful portairt of [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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Famous British photographer Eadweard Muybridge
Famous British photographer Eadweard Muybridge was an innovator and pioneer in the early motion picture and film process. He was ahead of his time in trying to capture movement and bring photography to life.
As a Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute Native American Indian person I can appreciate his pioneer spirit as he captured [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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