Earliest known Native American tribe in Yosemite were the Ahwahneechee, a Miwok or Mono Lake people believed to have arrived about 7,000 years ago from a “land to the west.”
November 21, 2021
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HISTORY CORNER: YOSEMITE
Jewel of American Parks
“There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever…”