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Yosemite Indian - Paiute girl in 1900 wearing beaded collar
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1900 photo of Yosemite Indian Paiute girl wearing Paiute beaded collar. The same beaded collars are worn by Paiutes and other Great Basin Indians at modern Pow wows and traditional gatherings. The photo was taken in Yosemite Valley in 1900.
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cougartracks
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Mon May 8, 2006 2:20am Rating: 9 

Lucky she doesn't know what she lost Osceola
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eesha1
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Tue May 30, 2006 5:02am

True. The original Indians of Yosemite were Mono Paiutes.



Chief Tenaya was from a band called the Ahwahnees who almost died out by dieases brought in from the Spanish Missions.



Tenaya's father took the remaining survivors to Mono Lake which was the homeland to my people, The Paiutes, a warrior society. There Chief Tenaya married a Mono Lake Paiute woman and had Tenaya.



Tenaya grew up at Mono Lake and married a Mono Lake Paiute woman and had several children. Later a medicine man told Chief Tenaya it was safe to return to Yosemite.



Tenaya took his family and about 200 people back into Yosemite Valley and founded the "Paiute Colony of Ahwahnee".



Chief Tenaya and his band fought off non-idigenous gold miners who were encroaching closer into Yosemite Valley.



James Savage, the Mariposa Battalion and his Indian miners, went after Chief Tenaya to prevent his bands attacks on the intruding gold miners. Sadly James Savage had gathered together Indian chiefs by befriending them and using them to get rich, but Savage was killed by another settler in an agruement.



James Savage died before Chief Tenaya, so gold can't buy you a long life.



That is a short story of the Indians of Yosemite. If you want to learn more read "Discovery of the Yosemite, 1851, an the war led to that event" by Lafayette H. Bunnell. The only person to meet and write about Chief Tenaya.
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Fri June 16, 2006 9:02pm

Story of the Indians of Yosemite.



"The Outlaw Paiutes were read out of the tribe farther north in early part of 19th century. Some of them were chased south, and some west over the Sierra Mountians into the Yosemite Valley region. In 1851 they raided Camp Bourbour (later called Fort Miller 20 miles NE of Fresno) and were chased by Major James Savage, Andrew Firebaugh, and their soldiers. In the pursuit Yosemite was discovered. Contrary to belief, the Yosemite Indians are NOT California Diggers, but the descendents of outlaw Paiutes, as per testimony of Johnny Calico (son of Chief Winnemucca) to the late David Williamson, historian of Nevada, and in testimony of Williamson to H. Hamlin."
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