I have visited the Indian Village off and on for 30 years and it's a fantastic place to learn about the original inhabitants of Yosemite.

I learned to weave traditional-style baskets from the head of the Indian Interpretive Program, Julia Parker, and she is always wonderful to all visitors and ready with a smile. She is Kashia Pomo and ...

A visitor to this exceptional place must be ready to learn of the natural and traditional ways of the original Yosemite inhabitants. One will learn that the ceremonial sites are still very much in use, although a tribal ceremonial site is under construction at an old village site nearby. One can also find the very sacred ground of a Miwok and ...

The information given at Yosemite is incorrect concerning the Indians of Yosemite.

1. Chief Tenaya was 1/2 Ahwahnee and 1/2 Paiute. Later in 1853 the Ahwahneechees were decimated and the survivors were assimiliated into the Mono Lake Paiutes. So the real Yosemite Indians were Mono Lake Paiutes. That story went unexplained in Yosemite.

2. Most ...