Items, stories and photos regarding the Paiute Native Americans or Indians of the Yosemite and Mono Lake Paiute area. This also includes Hetch Hetchy Valley.
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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
Fall is one of the best times of the year to visit Yosemite National Park. While spring is the best time of year to view Yosemite’s spectacular waterfalls and summer is more convenient to take the kids, crowded roads and trails can make a visit to Yosemite seem more like a trip to the city and less of an escape into nature. After Labor Day, the crowds dramatically diminish, temperatures are generally more comfortable for outdoor activities, and hotel prices drop making a visit to the park... Read Full Story
My friend sent this review of a book one of our elders encountered today. He highly recommends this book if you are interested in photograpy. The book has great photos of places John Muir traveled through in the Sierra Nevada; Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite, and Mono Lake. One of our elders ecountered this book when he was out and about. The book is called 'What Would John Muir Say?' which was edited by Bernice Basser Turoff with some of the best photographs of Yosemite, Mono Lake and Hetch Hetchy... Read Full Story
Choo choo, tweet tweet: Historic train tracked on Twitter ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Choo choo, tweet tweet! That's the sound of a historic train trip being tracked on Twitter. Steam Locomotive No. 844, which was Union Pacific Railroad's last steam locomotive, is on a 32-day four-state tour from Roseville, Calif., to Ogden, Utah. Dispatches about the journey are being posted to Twitter. The tour started April 11 and continues through May 12, when it arrives in Utah to help mark the 140th... Read Full Story
Famed Ahwahnee Hotel may get massive seismic overhaul Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel Photo credit: wikimedia.org - Link Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel, a landmark destination with stunning views of Half Dome, Yosemite Falls and Glacier Point, could be closed for up to two years under a proposal by park officials to ensure it will survive a major earthquake. With its towering ceilings, wood beams and massive stone fire places, the luxury hotel, built in... Read Full Story
Surprising for most people who have been to Yosemite National Park or read any Yosemite Association material should read the book by Lafayette H. Bunnell. He was the only man to meet Chief Tenaya. If you read his book sold by the Yosemite Association you will find out that the original Indians of Yosemiter were not Miwoks, but Mono Paiutes. When you read it you will be one of few who really know the truth about this Indian history of Yosemite and the Paiute and Miwok people. Dr. Lafayette... 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... Read Full Story
