Yosemite Valley's Real Indian Facts

A lot of people have been taught that the real Ahwahneechees were Miwoks. Since the early 1900s people started to write that the Ahwahneechees were Miwoks, but the real facts might be different. If one were the read "DISCOVERY OF THE... [more]

A lot of people have been taught that the real Ahwahneechees were Miwoks. Since the early 1900s people started to write that the Ahwahneechees were Miwoks, but the real facts might be different.

If one were the read "DISCOVERY OF THE YOSEMITE,
AND
THE INDIAN WAR OF 1851,
WHICH LED TO THAT EVENT.
BY
LAFAYETTE HOUGHTON BUNNELL, M.D.,
OF THE MARIPOSA BATTALION, ONE OF THE DISCOVERERS,
LATE SURGEON THIRTY-SIXTH REGIMENT
WISCONSIN VOLUNTEERS."

People might be surprised. This book was the first written account by Lafayette H. Bunnell, the doctor of the Mariposa Battalion. I have seen the revised versions, but the original first print edition is the best one to read. Bunnell was one of the first persons to meet Tenaya and document what he said.