Yosemite Mono Lake Paiute Indians or Native Americans

Maggie "Taboose" Howard on cover of Yosemite Indians. She was one of the most photographed women in the Park's history. If you enter Yosemite National Park you will see many interpretive signs throughout the park with photographs of Yosemite Native American Indians. Beautiful old photos with soaring inspirational text of the first Natives of Yosemite. Those Indians the Yosemite National Park claim are Southern Sierra Miwuks, and even Central Mewuks. You might even go to the National Park’s website and see the story of the Ahwahneechee “Miwoks” with several old photos. Now if you didn’t have a clue, like most Non-Indian tourists you would ... Read Full Story

Dave Toussaint (www.photographersnature.com) posted a photo: A rainbow comes off the mist of upper Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park, California. Read Full Story

Yosemite's most distinctive monument, Half Dome, dominates most Valley views. Standing at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley, Half Dome rises to an elevation of 8,842 feet. At 87 million years old, the type of granite making up the dome is the youngest plutonic rock in the Valley. (Plutonic rock is formed beneath the earth's surface by intense heat, pressure and slow cooling.) The remaining portions of granite on Half Dome's face are believed to have sheered off during its cooling phase 100 million years ago, deep under the Pacific seabed. Succeeding glaciers deposited some of the debris in moraines along the Valley floor. ... Read Full Story

Big Meadow Prescribed Fire: A prescribed fire ignited by Yosemite National Park fire managers on Aug. 26, 2009, escaped and grew beyond the predetermined 91-acre fire perimeter to burn a total of 7,425 acres. Specifically, the Big Meadow Fire escaped into the scar of the 1990 A-Rock Fire. Once the fire burned beyond the perimeter, NPS firefighters began suppression efforts—ordering additional resources, including air tankers, helicopters, bulldozers, fire engines, and additional firefighters. The fire was 100% contained on Sept. 10, 2009. The Big Meadow Fire, which began Aug. 26, 2009, was 100% contained by Sept. 10. Colors show the daily progression of the Big ... Read Full Story

Now for the most outrageous thing that Yosemite National Park has done. They honor the head Indian scout who hunted down and captured the Yosemite Indians, but not the chief of the Yosemite Indian people. If you have been following the saga, we Paiutes are breaking down the myth that Yosemite National Park was once the homeland of the fabled Southern Sierra Miwuks also called the Yosemite Mewuks. For decades Yosemite National Park has been falsely claming that the original Native Americans of the Yosemite Valley, also called the Ahwahneechees, were Miwoks. Yet Yosemite National Park has never read the early account by Dr. ... Read Full Story