Posted in Ahwahnee, Ahwahni, Ahwahnichi, Ahwahnichis, Benton Paiute tribe, Big Pine Paiute, Bishop Paiute tribe, C. Hart Merriam, California Indian basket, California Native American Indian basket, Chief Tenaya, Coleville Indian, 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 Icon, 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 Cowboy poet, Cowboy poetry, Cowboy poets, Western poetry on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is an art form called Western or Cowboy poetry done by poets. This poem was done in the early 1900s by early settlers in California,
There was a western history periodical called The Pony Express which was published out of Sonora, California in Tuolumne County. The periodical has many great historical accounts from testimony of [...]
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Left; Dr. Lafayette H. Bunnell who met Chief Tenaya and the Ahwahneechees and wrote they were Paiutes and Monos. Bunnell wrote that Paiutes also hid in Hetch Hetchy. Right: Lady Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming wrote on her visit to Yosemite that Paiutes used Hetch Hetchy as a sanctuary and to gather acorns. Below: Hetch Hetchy Valley [...]
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Artist rendering of Tabuce or Maggie “Taboose” Howard, Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute in Yosemite Valley with a wono basket and winnowing tray. These baskets were often used to pick pine nuts and winnow them. The drawing was done by Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute Roger Salas. The picture on the right is of a Pinon tree taken in [...]
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Photo of Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute Bridgeport Tom standing in front of his favorite tree, the big yellow pine that was well known in Yosemite.
Yosemite – Mono Lake Paiute Bridgeport Tom had a favorite tree in Yosemite. It was a famous gigantic old yellow pine. Yosemite Nature Notes published a story of the bond between the [...]
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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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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 [...]
