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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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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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. [...]
