Yosemite Mono Lake Paiute Indians or Native Americans

Ending a lengthy legal battle with environmentalists, the federal government agreed Wednesday to halt all commercial development in Yosemite National Park's most popular stretch and to consider limiting access to its wilderness. The settlement caps years of legal wrangling between the National Park Service and two small environmental groups, which sued the federal government in 2000. They claimed the park's $442 million plan to move campgrounds and upgrade hotel rooms in Yosemite Valley would jeopardize the Merced River, a federally protected waterway that flows beside famous granite monoliths and dramatic waterfalls. Under the new agreement, the park service will hold off on all planned ... Read Full Story

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

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

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

Burn ban lifted in numerous CAL FIRE Units, National Forests and Bureau of Land Management lands. Fire season has ended in North Central California. TCU - Touloumne Calaveras Unit has lifted the suspension of burning on private lands. The unit includes Tuolumne and Calaveras counties in addition to eastern portions of Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties. Burn permits are required : Burning is prohibited during high winds. Burn pile sizes must be a maximum of four-feet in diameter, all flammable material and vegetation within 10 feet of the outer edge of the pile must be cleared. Water supply must be close to the burn ... Read Full Story