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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. [...]
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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 [...]
